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A platform thesis

The AI coaching
assistant that watches
you move.

One movement-intelligence engine. Four markets. Schools fund it. Gyms scale it. Health partnerships compound its margin.

$25–30Baddressable TAM
4 stages24-month build
1 enginefour product UIs
18–24 moreplication time
Vigour teacher app · session · capture · review
● LIVE APP
02Executive Summary
One-screen TL;DR

A single movement-intelligence engine, sold into three populations no incumbent bridges.

Phone capture → on-device pose → movement classifiers → hybrid VLM coaching. Real-time form feedback, natural-language Q&A, auto-narrated reports per audience.

Year 1 revenue
$200–400KR3.7–7.5M£160–320K
Year 3 revenue
$8–15MR150–280M£6.4–12M
Platform spend
$65–110KR1.2–2.0M£52–88K
Recoverable in
1 Tier-1B deal
Four-stage strategy
StageVerticalWindow
1Schools Test Platform
Anchor revenue · POPIA → GDPR/FERPA
Now → Mo 6
2Youth AI Programs
Movement engine ships · form-correction proven
Mo 4 → 10
3Gym Vertical
SA → UK → US · primary revenue
Mo 8 → 16
4Health Partnerships across the industry
Verified-quality points · life & health insurer integrations · Discovery model
Mo 14 → 22
The moat

Two-part moat. (1) A unique dataset being built out through Schools (Vertical 1) with coach-in-the-loop labelling · population data no incumbent has the channel to capture. (2) A movement engine that scales efficiently into every new vertical, no rebuild. Both compound with use. Replication time: 18–24 months.

03The one-liner
One engine · four markets

A coaching assistant in every pocket. Measures every move. Coaches every rep. Unlocks every athlete.

Schools

Measure & coach youth. Standardised tests + personalised programs.

Gyms

Coach adults. Trainer dashboard + client app + home verification.

Health partners

Verified-movement points across life & health insurers. Member benefit, claim evidence, attribution.

Adjacent

Workplace fitness-for-duty · sports academies · talent ID.

The coaching assistant is the productVerticals are markets03
04The market
Three primary verticals · adjacent upside

$25–30B addressable
across three primary verticals.

Total reachable in 36 months: $40–80M ARR potential across schools (anchor) + gyms (primary) + insurer & wellness partnerships (margin). SA is the wedge market · cost-base ~⅓ of US-headquartered equivalent.

VerticalBuyerEnd userGeo TAMSA SAM
Schools & EducationPrincipal · Head of Sport · DoE districtPE teacher · student · parent$3B (US K–12 + college)~5,500 schools metro+suburban
Gyms & Personal TrainingGym chain ops · independent PT · franchise GMPersonal trainers · members · home users$15B US · £5B UK · €8B EU~500 gyms · ~6,000 PTs
Health PartnershipsLife / health insurer · Vitality-style programme · employer wellnessMember · gym client$8B US · £1.2B UKDiscovery · Momentum · Bonitas market
Adjacent (Workplace · Academies)HR · safety · academy directorWorkers · scholarship athletes$4B+ (mining, defence, elite sport)SA mining + national academies = ~R200M
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05The universal problem
Same broken workflow · three buyers

Everyone could use a coach. People don't scale.

Schools, gyms, insurers · same wall. Coaching access stops where human attention runs out. One engine puts it within reach at every level.

Schools
Today

Stopwatch, clipboard, manual entry · 1 PE teacher per 30 youth.

Missing

Objective measurement · personalised programs · form correction.

Gyms
Today

Trainer eyeballs form · client guesses at home · no rep verification.

Missing

Real-time form coaching · home adherence · multi-client scaling.

Insurers & Health Partners
Today

Insurers reward gym check-ins, not movement quality. No proof layer between member behaviour and underwriting.

Missing

Verified movement quality · adherence-as-claim-evidence · points-grade telemetry.

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1Performance Testing Platform · Anchor
Now → Mo 6

The standardised motor-intelligence test battery for coaches and teachers.

Phone-native. Measurements of 8 key motor capabilities. Same protocol, same scoring · comparable across classes, schools, regions, countries.

Target user

PE teacher · sports coach

Buyer / audience

School · DoE · academy · parents

Why this wedge

Comparable cohorts at scale

Why a standardised battery beats ad-hoc testing
  • Standardisation · same protocol, same scoring, same camera anywhere
  • Coverage · 8 motor capabilities tracked in <10 min / athlete
  • Comparability · class · school · regional · national benchmarks
  • Group throughput · multi-athlete capture, no proctor bottleneck
In the lineage of

WHO youth-movement guidelines · ISB testing protocols · FITNESSGRAM · extended for AI-camera scoring at school scale. Designed with Dr G.F. Joubert · Human Movement, CPUT.

Transition gate → Stage 2

5 paying schools · POPIA pack complete · bib OCR ≥ 90% · ~50K labelled reps in corpus.

IMIT · 9 tests · 8 capabilities
International Motor Intelligence Test Battery
CapabilityTestOutput
Locomotor10 m Sprintseconds
Standing Long Jumpcm
CoordinationJumping Jackreps · rhythm · errors
StrengthPush-Ups (modified, younger grades)reps
EnduranceRepeated Sprintdistance · fatigue index
BalanceSingle-Leg Balance (eyes closed)seconds held
ReactionBall Drop Reactionmilliseconds
AgilityZig-Zag Agilityseconds
LateralityCross-Crawl Marchreps · symmetry
Capture Detect Pose Track / ID Score 9 modules · 1 corpus

One vision pipeline powers all 9 tests. New tests slot in as scoring modules · they don't fork the system. Every captured rep aggregates into a single corpus that improves every other test.

Vigour teacher app · cross-class tests list
Vigour teacher app · start-a-test modal · all 9 tests
Vigour teacher app · live shuttle-sprint session · per-student status
Teacher app · in production · pick → capture → review
Revenue · R200–400K ARR$11–21K ARR£9–18K ARRStage 1 · Performance Testing Platform06
1Performance Testing Platform · Tests in Action
One pipeline · 9 tests · 8 capabilities

Every test runs on the same engine · different scoring module, same capture, same review flow.

Each tile below is a real capture from a school pilot. Pose · tracking · classifier · scoring all live.

Jumping Jack · reps · L/R sync · rhythm
Repeated Sprint · distance · fatigue index
Lateral hop · 10 students · balance duration overlays
Lateral Hop · balance · seconds held
Vertical Jump · explosiveness · cm of height
Batch processing · results flow back to the teacher
Student dashboard · personal bests · percentile · longitudinal trends
Why this matters

9 tests, 1 pipeline. Pose + tracking + classifier are shared. Adding a new test is a new scoring module and a config · not a forked product. Every captured rep aggregates into a single corpus that makes every other test more accurate.

Each test = a scoring module on one engineStage 1 · Tests in Action07
2Youth AI Programs · Engagement layer
Mo 4 → Mo 10

From measurement to coaching.
Schools fund the wedge · corpus funds the coach.

Target user

PE teacher · youth-development trainer

Buyer / audience

School orchestrates · parents + school pay subscription

Channel

Schools relationship from V1 → parent acquisition funnel

The wedge

V1 is a measurement tool (commoditises over time). V2 is the coaching companion · sticky, high-LTV · trained on the dataset V1 generates at school-test scale.

Learning loop · V1 → V2

V1 generates the three things V2 needs to coach: classifier labels · progression curves · error patterns. New in V2: movement template engine + on-device inference. Carried over: data-gen stack refined on V1 + movements dataset compiled through Phase 1 collaborations.

Moat compounding → Tier 1B + 1C

V1's moat (protocol library + POPIA + child-population data) + V2's (classifier labels + progression curves + error patterns) unlocks Tier 1B (PTs / gyms) and 1C (insurance). V2 is the bridge into Stages 3 and 4.

Same data · two surfaces
V1 Today · measurement
48cm · vertical jump · 78th %ile

A number. A rank. Just the score.

V1 · per-athlete raw measurements at class scale
V1 · raw measurements at class scale
V2 Stage 2 adds · coaching companion

"Strong jump. Arm swing softened on rep 3 · try a sharper drive."

Per-rep biomechanics · progression curves · population-aware cues · auto-narrated reports.

V2 · coaching companion · longitudinal dashboard
V2 · coaching surface · longitudinal · personalised
Transition gate → Stage 3

3 movements with form-correction live · trainer-rated cue quality > 80% · cohort improvement ≥ 8% on re-test · movement engine in prod.

How V1's data becomes V2's coaching
01
Capture

Phone records the rep

02
Score

Engine extracts the measurable

03
Override

Trainer fixes any AI mistake

04
Improve

Correction trains the next session

Revenue uplift · +R150–300K ARR (premium tier)+$8–16K ARR+£6.5–13K ARRStage 2 · Youth AI Programs08
3Gyms · Primary revenue · insurers engaged from day one
Mo 8 → Mo 16

The trusted health partner. Insurers engaged from day one.

Target user

Personal trainer · gym owner

Buyer

Gym chains pay subs · insurers buy outcomes

Why this wedge

~10M reps/gym/yr · every trainer override = free label

Gyms are the surface. Insurers buy the outcomes. Verified-movement points + member benefit ride on top of every gym deployment.

SA
Mo 8–12

Primary entry, zero travel. Virgin Active SA ~100 sites @ R1.5K$80£65/site/mo = R1.8M$95K£78K ARR from one chain.

UK
Mo 12–16

Mature trainer culture · sector consolidating (Pure Gym, David Lloyd). Cofounder network unlocks chains. GDPR over POPIA = ~4 weeks.

US
Mo 16+

Largest TAM, most fragmented. Enter after 3+ chain proof points. NIL-funded colleges + chains in parallel.

Why we beat consumer competitors
  • Consumer-direct competitors miss the trainer · the channel that owns the client
  • They train on adults; ours generalises across populations from day one
  • They add movements as engineering; we add as configuration
  • No youth or insurer-grade data anywhere else; we have both
Transition gate → Stage 4

50+ paying gyms · >$500KR9M£400K ARR · cross-pop pose validated (<5% drop) · 50+ movement library · health partner engaged.

Barbell RDL · same engine, gym context · pose · fault tags · per-rep biomechanics
Same engine · gym context · per-rep biomechanics & fault tags
Year-2 ARR target

$0.5–1.5M ARRR9–27M ARR£400K–1.2M ARR

Where the data flywheel ignitesStage 3 · Gym Vertical09
4Health Partnerships across the industry · Margin
Mo 14 → Mo 22

Verified movement quality becomes the new health currency.

Target user

Insurer member · gym client

Buyer

Life & health insurer · wellness programme

Why this wedge

Insurers want verified outcomes · we are the proof layer

The worked example · Discovery Health

Discovery's Vitality is the global model · points for gym check-ins, steps, healthy buys. Today those signals are presence, not quality. We add the missing layer: verified movement quality · every rep, every test, scored. That's a new tier of points, claim evidence, and underwriting input · direct API into the insurer's reward engine.

Why the moat hardens here

Nobody bridges school + gym + insurer-grade verification. Every gym session feeds the points engine. Every points payout reinforces the gym. The same engine, two business models, one data flywheel.

Pose-tracking applied to verified-movement scoring
Same engine · health-partner context · verified-quality scoring
What we deliver to the insurer
  • Verified-quality points API · every scored rep can mint reward points
  • Member benefit surface · premium reductions, in-app rewards, partner perks
  • Risk-segmented coaching · same engine, member-tier-aware cues
  • Programme attribution · verified outcomes at 90 / 180 days
  • Compliance pack · POPIA · GDPR · per-jurisdiction data residency
Health partners we engage in Year 2
South Africa

Discovery · Momentum Multiply · Bonitas

United Kingdom

Vitality UK · Bupa · AXA Health

United States

John Hancock Vitality · Oscar · employer wellness

Asia / global

AIA Vitality · Manulife · global re-insurer pilots

Year-2 ARR target (Stage 4 layer)

$0.3–0.8M ARRR5–14M ARR£240K–640K ARR + per-member-month rev-share unlocks here.

Highest margin · insurer revenue share · Vitality-style pointsStage 4 · Health Partnerships10
11Decision gates
If we miss a gate, we don't push forward

Three transitions. Hard pass criteria.

Gate A · S1 → S2

Anchor to engagement

  • 5 paying schools live
  • POPIA pack signed off
  • Bib OCR ≥ 90% auto-resolve
  • ~50K labelled reps in corpus
  • Trainer sentiment net-positive
Gate B · S2 → S3

Engagement to scale

  • 3 movements with form-correction live
  • Trainer cue quality > 80%
  • Cohort improvement ≥ 8% on re-test
  • Movement template engine in prod
  • First gym pilot signed
Gate C · S3 → S4

Scale to margin

  • 50+ paying gyms
  • > $500K ARR
  • Cross-pop pose validated (< 5% drop)
  • 50+ movement library
  • Health partner design engagement live
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12One engine · four markets
From what we sell · to how it works

Four markets you've now seen.
One engine underneath all of them.

Next: how the engine actually works · the data we capture, the coaching layer we build on top, and the use cases that compound across all four stages.

Slide 13

The insight · why now

Slides 14 & 15

Data gen stack & coaching assistant

Slide 16

The movement engine

Slide 17

Platform-defining use cases

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13The insight
Why now is the moment

The winner isn't whoever owns the most movement data. It's whoever has the engine that produces it.

Schools Testing App
the vehicle
01 Phase 1 · develop

Data Generation Stack

Pose · tracking · classification → human-performance measurables on every phone.

data +
learnings
02 Phase 2 · evolve

VLM Coach

Vision-language coaching trained on the Phase-1 corpus + movement templates.

Phase 1 generates the data. Phase 2 builds the VLM coaching layer on top. Both extend through every stage.

Three converging facts
01

Data generation · the AI vision stack

Pose + tracking + classification generating human-performance measurables.

02

VLM coaching · insights built on the data

Vision-language layer trained / prompted on the Phase-1 corpus + movement-template set.

03

No competitor bridges populations

Uplift adult-only · Sword clinical-only · Sculptor/Form/Gymscore consumer-only · FitnessGram data-entry only.

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14Phase 1 · the data generation stack
Built & hardened inside the Schools Testing App

A phone-native AI vision stack that turns video into structured human-performance measurables.

01

Phone capture

60fps · landscape-locked · pre-flight scene QA · bib OCR

02

On-device pose

Quantised pose model · on-device runtime · privacy-preserving

03

Tracking & segmentation

Multi-athlete tracking · phase & rep windows · scene-stable IDs

04

Movement classifier

Per-movement scoring module · fault & quality labels

05

Measurables

Reps · ROM · velocity · symmetry · protocol scores · audit log

What the stack outputs
  • Protocol-scored results · FitnessGram-equivalent scores on every phone, no proctor
  • Per-rep biomechanics · joint angles · ROM · tempo · symmetry · fatigue curve
  • Classifier labels · exercise · phase · fault tags (knee-valgus, butt-wink, depth, tempo)
  • Demographics-linked records · age · sex · school · sport · longitudinal student ID
  • Auditable trace · raw video → pose → score, end-to-end reviewable
Anchor · Schools Testing App
  • Paying customer from day one · schools + DoE contracts fund the build
  • Class-scale labelled capture · 30 students × 9 tests in < 60 min, per teacher
  • POPIA-cleared · pack portable to GDPR & FERPA in weeks, not quarters
  • The workflow is the label loop · trainer override in-app = a labelled rep · fastest path to a real-world annotated dataset
Schools Testing App · class capture session with per-student measurables
Schools Testing App · where the data gen stack is built & proven
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15Phase 2 · extending into the coaching assistant
VLM coaching built on the Phase-1 corpus

The same stack, now feeding a vision-language coaching layer · real-time feedback, Q&A, audience-aware reports.

From Phase 1
Data-gen stack
+ corpus
What enables the transition
Captured movement data + templates · the prompt material a VLM needs.
Plus the cost unlock
Open-source VLMs are now good enough to self-host at scale.
Into Phase 2
VLM coaching
+ reports
What the coaching layer adds
  • Real-time form feedback · "knees out, rep 3" mid-session
  • Population-aware cues · same fault, different cue for a 12-yr-old · 45-yr-old · returning trainee
  • Natural-language Q&A · "why was rep 3 bad?" · "what should I work on?"
  • Auto-generated reports · parent narrative · trainer brief · clinician note · insurer summary
  • Multi-language output · UK/US English · Afrikaans · isiZulu · ES · FR · DE · NL · PT
VLM strategy
  • Self-hosted, corpus-tuned VLM. Our model, our weights, our infrastructure.
  • Library is a framework, not engineering. Adding a new exercise or insight is configuration. Adapts fast to any vertical.
  • Data compounds. Every session sharpens the classifier and re-tunes the VLM.
  • Structured signals in, not raw pixels. Pose + classifier outputs feed the prompt. Auditable end-to-end.
Vigour Tech dashboard · student profile with KPIs, trend charts and latest results
Live dashboard · what the parent, coach & clinician see today
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16The movement engine
Four layers · built once · reused everywhere

One pipeline turns phone video into structured, scoreable movement.

Self-hosted. Inspectable by design · geometry and rubrics are authored, not learned. Same engine across every vertical.

01 · Perception

What's in the video?
Detect athletes, track them, extract skeletons.

02 · Engine

What did the body do?
Angles, velocities, reps, phases · authored math.

03 · Intelligence

What movement, how well?
Classify the exercise, judge quality.

04 · Apps

Show me a score.
School dashboard, gym, coaching.

Capabilities translate across verticals
  • One motion taxonomy under every vertical
  • A capability shipped in one vertical ports to the next as config, not engineering
  • Every new exercise compounds everywhere
Inspectable, not a black box
  • Every score traces to a rule or a labelled example
  • Buyers see how a result was reached
  • The trust layer for schools, regulators, insurers
Why it compounds

Every captured rep · youth, adult, insurer-grade · feeds the same corpus. Classifier and coaching layer both improve with every test we run anywhere. No retraining per vertical.

Multi-athlete pose · stable IDs · per-rep windows · same engine across populations
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17VLM coaching · top picks
Top picks · platform-defining

These three are platform-defining.

MVP · QUALITY MOAT ★★★

Tuned for individuals

Cues that match the person in front of you · age, skill, history · not one-size-fits-all. The same fault gets a different cue for a 12-year-old vs. a 45-year-old.

Why this is the moat: powered by the unique coach-labelled dataset we build out through Schools · population data no incumbent has the channel to capture. Generic AI breaks on edge populations; ours adapts because the dataset spans them.

All verticals · output of the dataset moat
POC READY · SCALE MOAT ★★★

Movement engine expansion

VLM watches an expert demo and drafts a new movement definition. A developer reviews, ships in days. New verticals plug in as engine config, not engineering.

Why this is the moat: library breadth gates every vertical (Stage 3 + 4 both need 50+ movements). 3–5× faster expansion than hand-authored. Compounds with every new exercise.

Platform-wide · the scaling speed our engine enables
MVP · CONVERSION ★★

Multi-audience reporting

One capture, four writeups. The parent gets a narrative, the coach gets a brief, the clinician gets a note, the insurer gets a verified-outcomes summary · all generated, none hand-written.

Why this is platform-defining: the reporting surface every audience touches weekly · the layer that drives retention. And the insurer summary is what surfaces "verified outcomes" they can underwrite against · unlocks Stage 4.

All verticals · the surface that closes buyers + unlocks insurers
Why these three

The first two build the moat. The third closes deals. Tuned-for-individuals coaching turns our coach-labelled dataset into adaptive cues nobody else can match. Movement-engine expansion lets new verticals plug in as config, not a rebuild. Multi-audience reporting reshapes the same captured data for every audience · the surface that drives weekly retention and unlocks insurer revenue.

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18The two-phase flywheel
Phase 1 generates the data · Phase 2 builds the insights

Phase 1 generates the data on every phone. Phase 2 builds the AI insights on top. Both compound through every stage.

.

Stage

Phase 1 · Data generation

Pose · tracking · classifier → measurables

Phase 2 · AI insights

VLM coaching on top of the corpus

Compounded moat

1

Schools Test

Anchor

Data generated

~50K youth reps/yr · ground-truth scores · demographics · protocol-scored measurables

Insights built

Auto-report writer (parent · coach · DoE) · talent ID · percentile narratives

Moat

POPIA proof · youth corpus · DoE relationships

2

Youth AI Programs

Engagement

Data generated

+ classifier labels · progression curves · error patterns · cross-movement signatures

Insights built

VLM coaching v1 · form-correction cues · movement template engine · audience-aware reports

Moat

Form-correction proven on youth · engagement loop · flywheel ignition

3

Gyms + Insurers

Primary revenue

Data generated

+ adult bodies · 100× volume · trainer-validated labels · adherence streaks

Insights built

Hybrid VLM at scale · 50-movement library · cross-pop coaching · verified-quality scores

Moat

Live capture pipeline across populations · trainer lock-in · insurer partner of record

4

Health Partnerships

Margin

Data generated

+ insurer-grade verified-quality scores · member-segmented outcomes · attribution over 90 / 180 days

Insights built

Verified-quality points API · member benefit surface · risk-segmented coaching · underwriting input

Moat

Per-member-month rev share · bridges school → gym → insurer populations

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19Why now
Eight reasons stacked

Eight reasons this is the moment.

01

VLM cost-viability

Frontier & open-source VLMs crossed the price/quality threshold in the last 18 months.

02

Hardware bust

Mirror, Tonal, Peloton have validated the software-first thesis the hard way.

03

Verified-outcomes wave

Insurers and employers are buying verified outcomes, not check-ins · the proof-layer category is forming now.

04

UK gym consolidation

Pure Gym IPO · David Lloyd PE-backed · centralised tech buying.

05

US college NIL

Athletic depts have new budget · talent ID is a wedge use case.

06

EU AI Act window

Pre-2027 compliance bake-in is cheaper than retro-fitting.

07

SA cost arbitrage

SA engineering ~⅓ of US-HQ equivalent · talent pool excellent.

08

POPIA → GDPR/FERPA

SA pilot data residency unlocks UK/US in weeks, not quarters.

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20Distribution & network
We're not cold-calling these markets

Warm channels into UK · US · New Zealand · and a direct line into a tier-1 SA life & health insurer.

United Kingdom

Reddam House group

Direct access via the Reddam school group's UK estate · pilot conversations open before Mo 6. Anchors the gym + youth pitch with brand-name reference customers.

  • Reddam House schools (multi-site)
  • Cofounder UK gym-chain network
  • Sport-development programme partners
United States

Multi-state schools & sport programmes

Personal access into school-development pipelines and sport-programme leads across multiple states · entry without the usual 9-month US sales cycle.

  • School-development networks (multi-state)
  • Sport-programme intros (academy + college)
  • NIL-funded athletic dept warm leads
New Zealand

Reddam + sport-academy access

NZ is a proving market · small, English-speaking, GDPR-adjacent, sport-mad. Reddam + academy contacts give us a third validation geography on top of UK + US.

  • Reddam New Zealand
  • Academy + provincial union intros
South Africa · home market

Direct line into a tier-1 SA life & health insurer.

Personal access at exec level inside one of South Africa's largest life & health insurers · the relationship that opens Stage 4 from day one. Verified-movement points API and member-benefit pilots route through this channel.

S4unlock stage
Mo 14+pilot window
Why this matters

UK + US run in parallel, not sequentially. Warm channels compress a 12-month international sales motion into 4 months. And the SA insurer line turns Stage 4 from cold-prospecting into a single warm intro at home.

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21Q&A anticipated
The questions a UK/US-fluent operator will ask

The four questions a sharp operator will lead with.

Q1 · Capital efficiency

"Why won't this need $20M?"

SA cost-base ~⅓ of US-HQ. We hit Y3 $8–15M ARR on $65–110K one-time + lean monthly burn. The capital ladder is anchor → engagement → scale, not blitzscale.

Q2 · Exit comp set

"Who buys this and at what?"

Sword Health ($3B), Hinge Health ($6.2B IPO-pre), Future ($300M+), Tonal pre-bust ($1.6B). Strategics: Stryker, Hologic, Technogym, Life Time, EXOS, Garmin.

Q3 · Foundation-model risk

"Doesn't OpenAI / Anthropic eat this?"

They'd need our schools channel, our POPIA + GDPR / FERPA packs, our movement template framework, our self-labelling workflow, and our trainer + insurer integrations. The model is the easy part · the moat is the capture engine and the relationships that feed it.

Q4 · Year-1 risk

"What kills this in the first 12 months?"

Failure to convert school pilots to paid · POPIA → GDPR/FERPA legal slip · cofounder mis-hire. Mitigations: 5-school cap on pilots before pricing test · regulatory packs prepped by Mo 3 · this slide.

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AAppendix
Legacy detail slides

Appendix · Legacy detail slides

Deeper technical detail. For reference only.

Tech stack reuse · fine-tuning roadmap · pose-tuning decision. These slides answer specific engineering due-diligence questions and are not part of the main pitch.

A1

Tech stack · one engine, four UIs

A2

Fine-tuning roadmap · P0 → P2 spend

A3

Pose-fine-tune decision

Appendix beginsVigour Tech · LegacyA0
15One engine · four UIs
Cross-stage tech stack

Build once. Reuse everywhere. The 10 : 1 retrofit ratio is the punchline.

ComponentBuilt inReused inStrategic role
Bib OCRS1S1 onlyVertical-specific · abstracted away by S3
Movement template engineS2AllThe configuration-not-engineering moat · 1 wk vs competitors' 2–3 mo
On-device inferenceS2AllReal-time + privacy + offline · required for gym + clinical
Identity abstractionS2AllBib / QR / wristband / face / anonymous · pluggable per vertical
Cross-population pose fine-tuneS3S3 / S4The foundation every vertical depends on
Re-ID moduleS3S3 / S4Cross-session continuity · trainer dashboard, longitudinal rehab
Hybrid VLM routerS2 → S3AllSelf-host vs frontier-API tier-out · ~70% cost reduction at scale
Auto-doc layerS4S4 + back-port30 min/day saved · daily lock-in · payer integration surface
Why this matters

Designing for the platform from day one is cheap. Retrofitting is fatal. Every component above is built ~10× cheaper as part of an integrated platform than retrofitted onto a single-vertical product.

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16Fine-tuning roadmap
P0 / P1 / P2

The cost-base is the moat that funds the moat.

PriorityAssetStageCost (SA)Why
P0Movement template engineS2R250–400K$14–22K£11–18KArchitectural · required for non-linear movement library scale
P0Cross-population pose fine-tuneS3R350–500K$19–28K£15–22KThe single highest-leverage data investment
P1VLM coaching prompt library (V1)S2R150–250K$8–14K£6.5–11KPopulation-aware feedback · direct moat against generic competitors
P1Re-ID moduleS3R120–200K$6.5–11K£5–9KCross-session continuity for gyms · longitudinal tracking
P2Clinical pose moduleS4R200–350K$11–19K£9–15KDefer until practitioners are in workflow
P2Self-hosted VLMS3R150–300K$8–17K£6.5–13KTriggered by >1k sessions/wk · ~70% cost saving at scale
Total platform spend

R1.2–2.0M one-time$65–110K one-time£52–88K one-time · recoverable inside one Tier-1B deal (Virgin Active SA = R1.8M ARR potential).

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17Pushed back on the original plan
When stock pose is right

Stock pose + classifiers + VLM is the right answer at MVP.

Fine-tuning the pose backbone for every vertical is expensive, slow, and almost always premature. The original plan implied this; we pushed back. Defer pose fine-tune until the data tells us we need it.

Trigger to fine-tune

Per-population accuracy drop > 5% measured against trainer-validated labels at > 200K reps · OR · a top-3 paid customer asks for a measurement we can't deliver.

Stock vs. fine-tuned · the trade
LeverStockFine-tuned
CostZero ongoingR350–500K$19–28K£15–22K + GPU
Time-to-shipDay one3–4 months
Population accuracy~92% adult, ~85% youth~96% adult, ~94% youth
LatencySameSame
Replication riskAnyoneHard · needs labelled corpus

Bottom line: the gap closes the moment we have ≥ 200K labelled reps · which is exactly when fine-tune cost gets amortised. Sequence matters.

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19Investment & revenue
Appendix · The numbers

SA cost-base ~⅓ of US-headquartered. The maths works.

Platform spend (one-time)R1.2–2.0M$65–110K£52–88K
Monthly burn (lean)R80–165K$4.5–9.2K£3.6–7.4K
First Tier-1B deal recovers100% platform spend
Revenue trajectory
YearStages liveARR targetDriver
Y1S1 + S2R3.7–7.5M$200–400K£160–320KSchool contracts + premium-tier programs
Y2+ S3 (SA + UK)R27–55M$1.5–3M£1.2–2.4MGym chains · ~50 paid sites by Y2 close
Y3+ S3 (US) + S4$8–15MR150–280M£6.4–12MUS chains + health partnerships + per-member-month rev share
Capital efficiency

Reaching $8–15M ARR at $65–110K platform spend + lean monthly burn is unusual. The cost-arbitrage is real, durable, and structurally hard for US-HQ competitors to match.

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