Discover High Impact Coaching Opportunities: Get Reminders to Check in with The Coach via Email, SMS or Notifications
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Jonathan haber
Update Feb 8, 2025
Hey everyone!! If you got one of these emails and checked it out, please think of it as a taster of what is to come. I was not pleased with the level of adaptability of the email system... I had refined it till its emails to me were so good I would get goosebumps before the last launch, but I had not fully upgraded it to my full vision, and the AI did not yet have the full knowledge base and access to memory that I wanted. It was able to review past visions it had extracted, but kept choosing the same focus points and I am not sure why. So this is paused for upgrading and wont actively send new emails.
The upgrades I am planning to do is to sync it with all the new upgrades to the coaching that went live over the last 4 weeks, including the massive upgrade that happened today and just went live Feb 8, 2025.
And ill add the context of where you are at in your relationship with us, brand new, or experienced, and then get it back on. Eta about 10 days.
Update Dec 18, 2024
If you are accessing these emails for the first time now welcome! Due to a misunderstanding in my team which we aspire to be forgiving around this feature was only available to 10% of our users until today Dec 18, 2024.
We have just rolled it out to everyone.
This is the most sophisticated new feature in the last year we have published. Your coach spends the equivalent of about 30 minutes of masterful inquiry into your past sessions to attempt to discern the single greatest and most impactful opportunity for you to engage in coaching... this includes an analysis of many of your past sessions, the challenges, longings, whats holding you back, etc.
It goes through about a 7 step reflective process in discerning how to be helpful, then checks its last 10 such approaches to make sure its offering something new compared to a past session, and then crafts a container or structure for coaching, then an invite to engage that, then shapes this all into an email and sends it out.
you can turn this on, off, or change the frequency at this link
Right now there are 3 modes listed, and you can turn on and off modes. 2 of the 3 are still being built.
Also, we have listened and know that phone notification and SMS are high priorities for many of you, so those are in progress.
Ultimately, this should be one of the key .places in which you can, when your not sure how you want to engage in your coaching or growth, turn to in order to find a high impact set of intentions to use for a quick or longer coaching session.
We recommend turning this on for daily engagement to get the most variety of ideas, but the default is only set to once per week unless you have expressed an interest in it being turned off.
If you find imperfections in this system, please let us know in the comments, or have suggestions for improving it. Its a really fun challenge that we believe will have a massive positive impact on the lives of millions, so we are building fast.
FAQ
How private are these?
Just me, the founder, I review to make sure its not broken, and only review randomly about 1/100, and I am committed to confidentiality. On top of that the AI is instructed to abstain from including anything too personal, and if you prefer an even stricter setting on that, just let me know.
Why is it coming from "emily" and signed "Io"?
Emily is an AI Coach personality we have created, we have many, and if you want to swap personalities for this, just let us know in the comments. Io is how the primary coach addresses itself, and we have not prioritized updating this because we are heads down in making sure its inviting you into the most impactful possible form of engagement.
How can I get the SMS or notification version instead when ready?
Those settings are in the same controls
Just flip the buttons on or off to choose your settings.
Ask us anything!
Original Post
We listened to your requests and one of the most common was being able to activate reminders to engage in coaching. This is data supported, increasing success with goals up to 76% with daily checkins.
So we have built a very nuanced system for doing so... the following versions are on the way:
v1 - Email Based
v2 - Option for SMS Based
v3 - Option for push notifications Based
For all version, we have made sure that you can
- Turn it off in one click
- Choose how often you want it to remind you
With one click you can turn it off completely
It also has these features
- Turn on and off in one click each mode
- Select from multiple styles of outreach
Jonathan haber
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Distinct super personal care but needs more
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Brittany Flynn
Love this app, find the ideas creative however for the price I wish it could work with my calendar, send notification and be easier to open.
Jonathan haber
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Get Notifications on your phone
Jonathan haber
To meet the popular request for phone notifications we are building this into our native apps, any additional feedback how you want it set up please let us know.
Jonathan haber
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Notification and Reminder System (Email/SMS)
Jonathan haber
Brittany said: "I wish it could send notifications."
We already have a robust notification system at IX Notify that has been down for maintenance for a couple of weeks and we are sincerely considering a complete rebuild.
The coach would craft emails when you want it to based on your session history, but we radically upgrading the coaching quality and that system has not gotten the upgrade, so it pales in comparison, we are planning a full rebuild from the ground up for it and its in a planning phase as of Mar 11, 2025
In the mean time there are some simpler options we can give you if you want notifications, we just need to know what matters to you... heres a couple of ideas.
One is a simple version that sends straightforward reminders via email or SMS to prompt you to engage in coaching.
Another more advanced version could allow you to set up specific coaching projects (like "20 minutes of focus per day") with customized reminders sent at your chosen times.
Vote here if you'd like notifications, and please comment whether the simple reminder or project-based system feels more valuable!
Jonathan haber
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Have the AI coach initiate follow up proactively via SMS
Jonathan haber
We are building this feature, upvote to voice your preference for prioriatization!
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Sean
Yes, notifications or prompts (prefer sms) for accountability would be a huge feature for me
Jonathan haber
This is amazing feedback Brittany!!
Ok so let me see if I got this right...
I wish it could work with my calendar,
Tell me what you envision here?
Would it be able to look through your calendar to coach you on things coming up?
Or just schedule regular sessions with you automatically and invite you to them?
send notification
- We are building this now!! We had a great email based system but it needs some serious upgrades because all of the AI engines we use got a lot smarter.
Tell me, whats the simplest version of this that would be epic?
We are thinking we could quickly get a version together that would send email or SMS and just be a fixed reminder to engage coaching.
With a bit more work we can integrate it with projects, so I might create a project to run for 20m a day, and then add a reminder that would email or SMS text me every day at my chosen time that reminder.
would either of these feel epic to you?
and be easier to open.
- Any specific part of opening it thats clunky for you?
Is it remembering the password?
Or wishing it would keep you logged in longer?
( if so we are working on that now )
Jonathan haber
Hey Everyone!! As of Feb 5, 2025 we paused this feature and are building and refining it, the quality of the notification emails is great, but I got the sense that when people replied to the question on how often they want the coach to check in with them, they did not clearly understand that it would be via email in this case and what it might look like, so we want to rebuild the experience with some serious upgrades and relaunch it.
Upgrades
- Much more clarity about how this works, what it will do, up front, and double checking with many users about whether they want to try it, likely a "sample email" that will be generated when you are deciding whether to turn it on.
- Adding knowledge to the AI that generates the emails. Right now it has a lot, but theres deeper knowledge its capable of that we are going to be adding to it.
- Adding AI memory to the ai that composes these emails. Currently it has access to highlights of one session when drafting, we are going to add the ability for it to get a mountain of more nuanced memory of your coaching sessions to enhance alignment.
Jonathan haber
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Providing daily reminders to stay on track with goals and changes
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Cari Roy
I was made aware that you do not offer texts or reminders to stay on track it would be helpful to offer that service too
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Jonathan Haber
For others interested in SMS reminders to stay on track please upvote this post!
Jonathan haber
Hey Cari Roy!
We do have a feature like that, in the intake interview you can set up email reminders, and we can def lean towards text as well.
Would you like to share more about what this would look like if it was a slam dunk setup for you?
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