Stop copy-pasting your runs
into ChatGPT.
Vertical reads your watch data daily and coaches you on what it finds. Your plan adapts. You don't have to explain yourself from scratch every time.
How Vertical works
Your wearable
Syncs automatically — every activity, every morning.
Vertical processes it
Every metric — HRV, sleep, load — cross-referenced with 200+ peer-reviewed sports science papers before your coach says a word.
Your coach responds
Coaching grounded in your physiology, your training history, and the actual science — not advice you could Google.
How it works
A coach that pays attention.
Every morning, it checks in on you.
HRV down overnight? Hard session becomes easy. Sleep score in the 70s? Not the day to add 3km. Vertical reads your data before you've had your coffee, and adjusts quietly — you wake up to a plan that already makes sense for today.
Your resting heart rate is up 6 bpm and HRV dropped 15% overnight. Let's swap today's tempo for an easy 6k. We'll hit the hard session Thursday when you're fresh.
Ask anything. Get a real answer.
"Can I move my long run to Sunday?" "Why did I bonk at mile 18?" "Is back-to-back racing a bad idea?" Vertical answers based on your actual training history — not generic advice you could find in a Reddit thread.
After every run, a proper debrief.
Not just splits. Your coach reads the session in context — how it fits your current block, whether your effort matched the target, what to watch for next time. Mention a niggle and the next two weeks rewrite themselves.
Solid tempo today. Your splits were even and heart rate stayed in zone. You negative-split the last 2k — exactly what we want. Tomorrow is easy 6k, keep it under 5:40.
Built on research
ChatGPT learned from the internet.
We learned from the research.
The internet is full of training advice — and most of it would injure you. Vertical is built on a curated body of 200+ peer-reviewed papers in exercise physiology, periodization, and injury prevention, combined with real coaching experience from athletes at every level.
When Vertical tells you to back off, it's not guessing. It's applying HRV-guided load management, polarized intensity models, and individual lactate curve progression — the same science elite coaches use, applied to your numbers.
ChatGPT
- General internet data
- No access to your watch
- Forgets last session
- Generic training advice
Vertical
- 200+ peer-reviewed papers
- Reads your Garmin daily
- 90-day training memory
- Advice grounded in your data
Get started
Try it free for 7 days.
Card required. Cancel any time before the trial ends.
Trusted by 200+ athletes
Common questions
Which devices and apps does Vertical work with?
Garmin, COROS, Polar, Suunto, and Strava. Your data syncs automatically — no manual uploads or CSV exports.
How is this different from just using ChatGPT?
ChatGPT has no context about your training history, last night's HRV, or how you responded to last week's workload. You have to re-explain yourself every session. Vertical has read your last 90 days of watch data before it says a word, and it remembers everything across every conversation.
What happens after the 7-day trial?
You're billed at the monthly rate you signed up at. Cancel any time from your account settings — no forms, no emails, no call with a retention team.
I'm not in a race build right now. Is Vertical still useful?
Absolutely. Many athletes use Vertical between race cycles — building fitness, recovering from injury, or just committed to running more consistently and intelligently. A target race gives the coach a date to plan toward, but without one it adapts to your current goals: aerobic base, volume, staying injury-free. The coaching quality doesn't change.