AI for coaches

AI built into the rhythm of coaching.

A thoughtful assistant that helps you see patterns, prepare better, and follow through — not a bot that coaches your clients. The coach stays in control.

Coach-facing by design

AI that helps the coach — not AI that coaches your clients.

Every AI feature in BackboneAI points at one person: you. It reads across a client’s coaching record so you can prepare faster, reflect more clearly, notice patterns you might have missed, generate better questions, and synthesize progress over time.

It’s built on Anthropic’s Claude, and personally identifying information is scrubbed before any model call. The AI suggests; you decide what to use.

Prepare for each session in seconds.

Reflect on what happened and why.

Spot patterns across the whole history.

Generate open, grounded questions.

Synthesize progress over time.

Decide what to use — you stay in control.

AI output is coach-facing support — never a diagnosis, treatment recommendation, clinical assessment, or a replacement for your professional judgment.
Session-prep briefs

Walk in ready — without an hour of prep.

Before a session, generate a brief in seconds. BackboneAI reads the client’s coaching record and pulls together the things you’d want to skim on the way in.

  • What’s changed since last time
  • Open commitments and action items
  • Current goals and coaching plan
  • Relevant assessment context
  • A suggested opening focus for today

Each brief is grounded in the client’s actual record — not generic advice — and it’s cached on the appointment, so it’s waiting for you when you open the session.

Grounded in the client’s record · cached on the appointment

Assessment debriefs

Every result comes with a way in.

After a client completes a tool or scored instrument, BackboneAI returns an instrument-aware debrief — it understands how that tool is scored, what the bands mean, and what’s worth a closer look — plus suggested coaching questions to open the conversation.

  • Reads the result in the tool’s own terms
  • Highlights bands, shifts, and what to watch
  • Suggests questions to open the conversation
  • Yours to use, edit, or set aside
Explore assessments & progress
AI debrief

PERMA Profile · this take

Engagement and Meaning scored highest. Positive Emotion came in lowest at 6/10, while Relationships rose since the last take.

Positive emotion scored lowest — what’s been pulling on your energy lately?
Relationships climbed since last time. What changed there worth keeping?
Suggested coaching questions

Better questions, grounded in the result.

For each result, BackboneAI offers three to five open, grounded questions you can take or leave. They’re a starting point for the conversation — never a script.

The questions are drawn from this client’s actual scores, so they land where the work is. Use them as written, reshape them in your own voice, or skip them entirely — the coaching stays yours.

  • Open and non-leading by design
  • Grounded in this client’s real result
  • Easy to edit, reorder, or ignore
  • A prompt for you — never sent to the client
Suggested questions

Wheel of Life · this quarter

Career and Health both rose — what shifted there?
Fun scored lowest again. What would a 7 look like?
Where do you most want to focus this next block?
What support would make the next step easier?
Client-grounded copilot

Ask AI about this client — and get a grounded answer.

Open any client and you’ll find an Ask AI panel grounded in that client’s own assessments, notes, and goals. Ask for coaching patterns, a set of questions, or a draft session plan, and the answer is rooted in their real history — not the open internet.

Quick-start chips get you moving, and the whole panel is coach-only — your clients never see it and never chat with it.

Progress synthesis

Make growth impossible to miss.

When a client repeats a tool over time, BackboneAI overlays each take’s radar so the change is visible at a glance — then writes a coach-facing narrative of what actually moved. It’s the coaching-progress artifact you can revisit, reflect on, and bring back into the session.

  • Overlaid radar across every retake
  • A plain-language narrative of visible change
  • Grounded in the client’s own scores
  • Coach-facing — you choose what to share back
See assessments & progress
Wheel of Life
This month   90 days ago
Progress narrative

What moved

Across three takes, Career and Health climbed steadily while Fun held flat. The clearest gains line up with the goals you set together in March.

Practice support

An assistant for the business side, too.

For admins and billers, AI can summarize the practice’s billing position, prioritize the work queue so the most important items rise to the top, and draft client-friendly reminders. Nothing goes out on its own — every draft is there for the coach or biller to review, edit, and send.

  • Summarize the practice’s billing position
  • Prioritize the billing work queue
  • Draft clear, client-friendly reminders
  • Always reviewed before anything is sent

Role-aware — available to admin and biller roles.

Privacy & coach control

You stay in control. Always.

BackboneAI’s AI is built to assist you and stay inside your practice. It’s coach-facing only, privacy-first, and it never reaches a client without your review.

PII scrubbed before model calls

Identifying details are removed before anything is sent to the model.

Coach-facing only

Every AI feature is for you. There is no client-facing AI.

Nothing client-facing without review

Drafts and suggestions wait for your edit and approval before they go anywhere.

Built on Anthropic’s Claude

Powerful where it helps, contained to your practice where it counts.

Read about trust & privacy

What our AI never does

  • Diagnose clients or label conditions
  • Evaluate mental-health risk
  • Replace your coaching judgment
  • Let clients chat directly with the AI
  • Send client-facing messages without your review

Prepare for better sessions — with AI on your side.

Coach-facing briefs, debriefs, grounded questions, and progress you can see — with you in control of every step.