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How It Learns

One of the most powerful things about your Level coach is that it does not stay the same. It gets smarter over time. Here is how that works.

The knowledge base

Your coach has access to a growing library of fitness and nutrition knowledge — everything from exercise science research to practical coaching strategies. This library is organized by topic (strength training, nutrition, recovery, supplementation, and more) and your coach searches it before giving you advice.

When your coach references its knowledge, it is drawing on curated, confidence-scored documents — not random internet content. Every piece of knowledge has a confidence rating so your coach knows how reliable it is.

The curiosity queue

When your coach encounters something it cannot answer confidently, it does not guess. Instead, it adds the question to its curiosity queue — a prioritized list of topics to research.

For example, if you ask “What is the best way to train around a shoulder impingement?” and your coach does not have a high-confidence answer in its knowledge base, it will:

  1. Give you the best advice it can with what it knows right now
  2. Add the question to its research queue
  3. Tell you: “Great question — I’ll research this and get back to you.”

The curiosity queue is also fed by things your coach notices on its own. If it spots an unexpected trend in your data (say your squat numbers are going up but your deadlift is stalling), it might queue a research question about why that pattern occurs.

Nightly research

Your coach runs a research pipeline that processes items from the curiosity queue. The pipeline searches for evidence-based answers, synthesizes what it finds, and writes the results back into the knowledge base.

This means that when you ask a question your coach could not answer well today, it will have a better answer tomorrow. The next time you (or any Level user) asks a similar question, your coach draws on the new knowledge.

The research process is fully automatic. You do not need to do anything — your coach handles it in the background.

Learning from your results

Beyond its knowledge base, your coach learns from your actual training data:

  • Experiment tracking. When your coach makes a change to your program (adding volume, swapping exercises, adjusting nutrition), it logs the change as an experiment with a hypothesis and a timeline. After the experiment period, it reviews the results to see if the change worked.
  • What worked and what didn’t. If increasing your squat volume broke through a plateau, your coach remembers that for your future programming. If a nutrition change did not produce the expected result, your coach notes that too.
  • Avoiding repeated mistakes. Before suggesting a new adjustment, your coach checks what has already been tried. It will not suggest the same approach that failed last time.

This is why logging your workouts matters. Every set you record gives your coach more data to work with, and more data means better programming decisions.

Coach insights

As your coach learns and processes your data, it surfaces insights on your dashboard. These are personalized observations based on recent research that is relevant to your goals. For example:

  • A new finding about recovery strategies that applies to your training style
  • A nutrition insight that connects to your current macro targets
  • A training tip based on recent exercise science that matches your goal

Tap any insight to start a conversation with your coach about that topic.

Your feedback matters

The most important way your coach improves is through your feedback. When you:

  • Correct a mistake — your coach adjusts immediately
  • Tell your coach something is not working — it reassesses and tries a different approach
  • Share how you are feeling (in weekly check-ins or chat) — your coach factors that into future decisions
  • Rate your sessions (via RPE and check-in responses) — your coach uses that data to calibrate intensity

You do not need to do anything special to help your coach learn. Just use Level normally — log your workouts, chat with your coach when you have questions, and fill in your weekly check-ins. Your coach takes care of the rest.