Performer · Web + Mobile

How Peak Coach works for you

Peak Coach diagnoses where mental performance breaks down under pressure and surfaces the tools that address it. This page covers what every screen does, what the system is doing behind it, and how the product moves you toward independence rather than indefinite use.

Tier: Free → ReFrame ($19/mo) → Performance ($39/mo)

Quick start

  1. Create your account on web at app.peakmindmechanics.com or in the iOS app. Email and password, Google, or Apple — same account works on both surfaces.
  2. Complete onboarding. About 8 minutes across five sections. Every answer feeds the prescription engine — domain, performance environment, coaching relationship, history, and presenting complaint.
  3. Take the Performance Scan. Self-administered, ~7 minutes, no charge. Produces your first read on the four ReFrame quadrants.
  4. Open today's prescribed tool from the Train tab. The system selects from your lowest-scoring quadrant. Sessions run 3–10 minutes.
  5. Check in daily from the Home tab. The Readiness Check-In takes about five minutes. It feeds the Readiness Score on Track and the MIND status visible to any paired Leader.

The five tabs

Peak Coach has the same five tabs on web and mobile: Home, Train, Track, Games, Me. Each owns a specific function — no tab borrows another's primary content.

Home — your daily landing surface

Home opens to a time-of-day greeting and a Start Check-In button. Below it sits the Coach Card — one card that explains today's signal first and prescribes one tool second.

The Coach Card is unified by design. The interpretive context (why this matters today) appears above the prescribed action (what to do). Free and Paid tiers see template-based context built from your check-in patterns; Premium and above receive AI-generated briefs with voice playback.

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Coach Card — interpretive context above prescribed actionEvening, Performer A. How did the day go?COACH CARD · TODAY
Your focus scores have dropped 12% this week. The competition window opens in 3 days. The system is surfacing a tool tied to attention re-anchoring.
TODAY'S MOVEFocus Funnel8 min · Q2 attention re-anchorBegin →
Coach Card — context first, prescribed action second

Below the Coach Card: an Events section (proximity coaching activates when you log an event), a 21-day reassessment card when due, and active goals carried in from the Me tab.

Readiness Check-In

Tapping Start Check-In opens the Mental Readiness flow. Five timed segments, ~5 minutes total. After the last segment, the app routes you to the highest-leverage training available today.

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Readiness Check-In — five timed segmentsDAILY READINESS CHECK-INFive timed segments · ~5 minutes totalSTEP 1Capacity60s
Sleep, energy, motivation, soreness
STEP 2Speed Game60s
Random cognitive speed challenge
STEP 3Attention Game60s
Focus + control test
STEP 4Memory Game60s
Working memory test
STEP 5Mental State30s
Anxiety snapshot
Feeds the Readiness Score gauge on Track and the MIND status visible to a paired Leader.
Five timed segments — Capacity, Speed, Attention, Memory, Mental State

The check-in feeds the Readiness Score gauge on Track and contributes to the MIND status a paired Leader sees on their roster.

Train — the tool library

Two sub-tabs. All Tools shows every tool in your tier, grouped by quadrant (DRIVE, FOCUS, REGULATION, EXECUTION). Assigned to Me shows tools your paired Leader or Engineer has pushed to you.

Tool cards show name, tier badge (Free, Paid, or Premium), a one-line description, and a time estimate. Tools above your current tier remain readable so the catalog is legible — opening one surfaces the tier requirement, not the tool itself.

Three tier gates exist: Free is included on every account; Paid (ReFrame, $19/mo) unlocks the full Q1–Q4 toolset; Premium ($39/mo) adds the Visualization Library, the Precision Training Diagnostic, and the AI Daily Brief. A Leader pairing covers the Premium delta — your $19/mo plus their $79/mo Group Rate gives you Premium access for as long as the pairing is active.

Track — three readiness gauges and the Performance Dial

Track answers one question: am I getting better? Three gauges sit at the top, each measuring a different dimension of readiness.

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Track tab — three readiness gaugesYOUR PROGRESSTrack tab — three readiness gauges75READYBody ReadinessHealthKit · Oura68BUILDINGDeployment ScoreAm I using what I know?82STRONGReadiness ScoreDaily Check-InBody fuels capacity · Readiness reads brain · Deployment reads architecture
Body Readiness · Readiness Score · Deployment Score

Body Readiness is biological. Sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, recovery — sourced from HealthKit and Oura. Shows a dash until you connect a wearable.

Readiness Score is neurological. Derived from your most recent Readiness Check-In. Drives the MIND column on a paired Leader's roster.

Deployment Score is architectural — what you actually deploy under pressure. Filled by either a Leader observation or your own self-rating. When both exist, the Leader rating weights 60% and your self-assessment weights 40%; when only one exists, that input is 100% of the gauge.

Below the gauges, the Performance Dial is a 2x2 grid showing 7-day trajectory per quadrant. Below that, the App-Calculated panel shows your sustained level (Levels 1–10) — the slow-moving read on architecture, not today's reading.

Performance Scan — three depths of assessment

The Performance Scan card on Track opens the assessment surface. Three depths exist:

  • Performance Dial — rolling 7-day reading on Track. Updates from your sessions, games, and check-ins.
  • Performance Scan — /100 overall plus /25 per quadrant. Shows the breakdown pattern and since-last-scan deltas.
  • Deep Performance Scan (Full Performance Profile) — 32-point deep assessment with targeted tool recommendations. Reached from the "Ready to close the gap?" CTA.

The 21-day reassessment reminder fires on Home automatically when 21+ days have passed since your last scan.

Games — cognitive training

18 short cognitive drills. Each game maps to one or more quadrants and feeds the Performance Dial on Track. Filter chips: All, DRIVEN, FOCUSED, REGULATED, EXECUTE.

The Games tab uses the past-tense state form (DRIVEN / FOCUSED / REGULATED / EXECUTE) while Track uses the noun form (DRIVE / FOCUS / REGULATION / EXECUTION). Same four quadrants — Track labels capacity, Games labels achieved state.

Pressure Mode is a Settings toggle under Brain Games. When on, games briefly flash a red overlay during play to simulate stress. The mechanism is stress inoculation — training cognition to hold under sudden disruption. Off by default.

Me — profile, subscription, and Settings

The Me tab is the longest screen in the app. The profile header shows your avatar, name, email, tier badge, and account code. Below it: Edit profile (a 5-step editor), Subscription, Limiter Words, My Practice (Journal + Goals), My Team (pairings), Achievements, Refer a Performer, and a Settings card at the bottom.

Settings opens a separate screen covering Training Mode (Automated or Self-Guided), Coaching, Brain Games, Appearance (Light / Dark / System), AI & Voice (Coach Voice, voice picker — Rob or Erin — and Voice Input), Health & Wearables, Team & Notifications, and Privacy & Research.

How pairing works

Pairing with a Leader or Engineer is what activates Deployment Score and the Assigned to Me sub-tab. The flow is identical regardless of which professional reaches you.

Receiving a pairing code

A Leader or Engineer generates an 8-character pairing code from their portal. They send the code or QR/share link directly. Tap My Team → Connect on the Me tab and enter the code, or follow the share link from your phone.

After confirmation, the pairing appears in My Team. Your tier upgrades to Premium for the duration of the pairing under a Leader's Group Rate, or to full feature access under an Engineer.

The Performer's Track tab averages the most recent Deployment rating from each paired Leader if you have more than one. You can be paired with a Leader and an Engineer at the same time without conflict.

Your journey

The product is designed to make you capable of independence, not to retain you indefinitely. Three sections explain how the system reads your progress and what graduation does.

Graduation

How do I know I'm progressing?

The App-Calculated panel on Track surfaces a sustained level per quadrant on a 1–10 scale, with a HIGH / MID / LOW band badge. Levels move slowly — one bad day does not drop a level.

The system promotes one quadrant at a time. The canonical order is Q3 (Regulated) → Q1 (Driven) → Q2 (Focused) → Q4 (Execute), reflecting that nervous-system regulation is the substrate other quadrant work depends on. The order can override when the data warrants it.

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Quadrant promotion order — Q3 → Q1 → Q2 → Q4CANONICAL QUADRANT ORDERQ3REGULATED
Nervous-system regulation
step 1
Q1DRIVEN
Identity & beliefs
step 2
Q2FOCUSED
Attention architecture
step 3
Q4EXECUTE
Skill access under load
step 4
Cascade-overrideable. The system can promote out of order if the data warrants it.
Canonical promotion order — Q3 first, Q4 last

When a quadrant clears all four integrity gates (next section), the system shows a graduation card and the next quadrant becomes active. Tools tied to the completed quadrant remain accessible. Regression re-promotes a Q-complete quadrant to active — the system maintains the integrity of the graduation signal rather than locking a moment in.

Graduation

Preparing to graduate — the four integrity gates

Graduation is gated, not permissive. Four checks must all pass before the system promotes a quadrant or whole-user graduation triggers.

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Four integrity gates — gating mechanic for quadrant graduation1Score threshold
≥ 3.5 sustained 3 weeks
2Evidence count
Tier-required tools at quality ≥ 0.6
3Convergent sources
Self · Behavioral · Leader/Engineer agree
4Trend verification
No regression · No active push
QUADRANT GRADUATION GATESAll four pass before the system promotes a quadrantRegression re-promotes the quadrant to active. Graduation is reversible.
Four gates · all must pass · graduation is reversible
  1. Score threshold. Construct score ≥ 3.5 sustained across three consecutive weekly windows. Three weeks beats one good week.
  2. Evidence count. Tier-required tools for the active quadrant completed at quality ≥ 0.6. Quality is a system-computed score, not user-rated.
  3. Convergent sources. Self-report, behavioral signal, and (where available) Leader or Engineer ratings agree.
  4. Trend verification. No regression detected by the Bridge in the rolling window. No active Engineer push.

Most users sustain three-week stability windows over months, not weeks. There is no fixed timeline. When all four quadrants clear the gates and the weighted Deep Performance Scan composite is ≥ 3.5 with no individual construct below 3.0, the three-screen Graduation Sequence triggers: status summary, alumni offering, tune-up pathway.

Your account stays active after graduation. Daily check-ins become optional. Your tier remains active until you change it. Alumni-only tools become available.

Graduation

Returning for tune-up

The Monthly Tune-Up is a Premium-tier alumni-only tool. Once-monthly cadence by default. Tune-Up is the alumni reactivation path — not failure, regression, or backslide.

Reactivation is trigger-anchored. A significant performance event, a life transition, or moving into a new domain (an athletics alumnus stepping into a leadership role) re-engages you without restarting onboarding. Your baseline scores, BTE goal history, and tool-completion record persist across the alumni period.

Alumni status does not change tier. If you downgrade to Free, alumni status persists; Tune-Up access requires Premium.

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