How FitQuest Uses AI

Last updated: 10 August 2026

Short version: your coach writes your plan. AI checks his homework.

Nothing you type into FitQuest is sent to an AI system, no model decides anything about you, and no model writes your programming.

The distinction that matters

There are two very different things people mean by "this app uses AI", and neither of the usual ones is quite right here.

No AI runs inside FitQuest. There is no model in the app or on our servers. Nothing you enter — your PAR-Q, your advisory answers, your logs, your messages — is passed to an AI system by the software. This is verified by an automated test that scans the entire application and server codebase on every build and fails if any model provider ever appears in it.

Your coach writes the work, then checks it against an AI tool. Tyson writes your plan, your statement and your programming himself. Afterwards he sometimes runs his thinking past Claude (made by Anthropic) and asks the equivalent of "what have I not considered here?" — a second pair of eyes on his own work.

It does not choose your exercises and it does not write your plan. The sequence matters: the work comes first and the check comes second. What the tool contributes is the occasional "you have not accounted for X", which Tyson then decides what to do about — the same way a colleague looking over his shoulder might, and with the same authority, which is none.

What that means for your information

He strips out anything that identifies you first. Not your name, not your email, not your date of birth. What goes in looks like "42-year-old, prior ACL repair, training three times a week, wants to get back to hiking — here is the plan I have written, what have I missed?" — the clinically relevant shape of the problem, without the person's identity attached.

Your data is not used to train any model. FitQuest uses Claude on a paid business tier, where Anthropic does not train its models on the conversations. We check that this is still true each time this page is revised.

What AI does not do here

• It does not decide anything about your care. Not what you can access, not when your coach reduces your load, not whether you get help. A person decides, every time.
• It does not set your price. Pricing is a fixed published lookup. There is no personalised or dynamic pricing, and there never will be.
• It does not grade you. FitQuest's founding documents forbid reducing a person to a composite score. Your Health Net Worth Statement contains no number that ranks you, and there is no leaderboard, no comparison between members, and no social surface of any kind. That rule is enforced in the software, not just promised here — the statement is blocked from publishing if a rating gets into it, whether a person or a tool put it there.
• It does not talk to you. There is no chatbot. When you get a message from your coach, it is from your coach.
• It is never the last word — or the first one. Tyson writes it; the tool only ever comments afterwards, and he is free to ignore the comment. If something you receive is wrong, it is his mistake, not the tool's, and he owns it.

Where it is labelled

On the documents themselves, not just here. Your Health Investment Plan, your Health Net Worth Statement and your quarterly and annual reports each carry a line at the bottom saying who wrote them and what part the tool played, with a link back to this page. You should not have to go looking in a policy to find that out.

If you ever find something in FitQuest that reads as though a machine wrote it and is not labelled, that is a bug — tell us at tysonfinn@fitquest.training and we will fix it.

Building software with AI

Some FitQuest software is written with the help of AI coding tools, under human review. That is a fact about how the product is built, not about how your coaching is delivered. It changes nothing about who is responsible for the product: FitQuest is.

Why this page exists

Advertising and consumer-protection law in Canada, the United States and elsewhere all converge on the same rule: do not claim your product does something it does not, and do not hide that a machine wrote something a person would reasonably assume a human wrote. FitQuest's own founding documents are stricter than any of them.

This page changed on 6 August 2026 because the practice changed. An earlier version said no AI was involved anywhere. That was true of the software and is still true of the software, but it stopped being true of how your coach works, so the page was corrected rather than left to age quietly. That is the standard we hold ourselves to here.

Contact: tysonfinn@fitquest.training