Our Technology
1. VOR Engine
Approach
Our Engine represents a groundbreaking approach to the automation of fitness and health routines. Combining several different non-deterministic algorithms into a single streamlined process, the Engine quickly and reliably generates personalised outputs with full transparency and explainability.
Data
The VOR Engine utilises a combination of static and dynamic data, including:
- Data model representation of the body, including muscle groups, individual muscles, tendons, muscle relationships like antagonist/agonist, and muscle size
- A database of exercises and exercise attributes including movement data, form complexity, required equipment, etc.
- Gym information including policies, equipment, layout
- Exerciser information such as experience, goals, injuries, and exercise history
While not in database form, the Engine was designed and built on a foundation of exercise science expertise and best practices. As new research is published, the team at VOR updates the Engine to ensure its processes are informed and backed by science.
Safety and ethics
Unlike Chat GPT and other large language models (LLMs), the VOR Engine offers its users complete explainability and traceability of its outputs. Informed by experts, the Engine also contains built in risk mitigation policies and harm prevention boundaries.
The VOR Engine, by design, requires a human in the loop. This provides accountability and an additional layer of risk mitigation.
Access
The VOR Engine is primarily accessed via a GraphQL API, which is intended for use in client integrations. However, it’s core functionality is not tied to GraphQL, and a REST API or gRPC API can be implemented based on client needs.
API
The VOR Engine provides basic create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) functionality for all of its resources, e.g. equipment, exercises, gyms, etc. The resource graph is fully explorable, enabling a user to query for not only a specific item, but also its contextual connections. The endpoints also provide access to the static data models and resources used by the Engine, such as the muscle data model.
For programme generation in particular, the Engine provides several endpoints. Programme generation in the Engine is done in a work queue, which is split between scheduling and fetching the status and result of a programme generation job. This separation between scheduling and result frees any future front-end or integration from keeping long-running connections, and the API remains fast and responsive no matter the load on the job queue.
Additionally, it provides a validation input endpoint that is designed to be very responsive and safe to call repeatedly from interactive front-ends, which require real time feedback.
Integration Partners
While a front-end component of the VOR Engine is available for demo, it is not intended for use in production or integration. Instead, VOR partners with existing front-end products to offer a packaged solution for clients that do not have an app or front-end of their own. VOR remains open to future collaborations and partnerships for app/front-end integration.
VOR also provides an exercise database, hosted in Google Cloud Platform, but can integrate with a client’s existing exercise database if needed.
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2. Trainer Interface
Our Engine is the heart of VOR tech, but without a trainer interface it is just lines of code.
Our Engine is designed to seamlessly adapt to your existing interface through API integration, but we also work with trusted partners to offer an intuitive trainer interface that is designed to make life easier for your PTs - allowing them to quickly and easily generate, tweak and deliver their client workouts.
We can also provide an exercise database, hosted in Google Cloud Platform, or we can integrate with your existing exercise database, which is often a good choice if you have a unique movement or exercise methodology.
Overview:
- Option to customise and add your brand.
- Intuitive design allows trainers to interact quickly and easily.
- Or seamlessly integrate VOR into your existing trainer app.
3. Exerciser Interface
The way your members see you is important. So is slick end-to-end usability.
If you want to offer a way for members to access workouts on their own, we partner with existing front-end products to offer a packaged solution for our clients that do not have an app or front-end of their own.
If you have this in place already, we can quickly and easily integrate with your in-house tech, a third party, or we can set you up with one of our front end app partners. It’s up to you.
We can also aggregate member feedback to their workouts, in order to further optimise your version of the VOR engine.
Overview
- You may not need a consumer interface.
- If you do, we can work with your in-house tech, or introduce the right partner.
- Member feedback can be fed back into your VOR engine.
Why use VOR?
The team behind VOR have decades of on-the-floor experience as personal trainers. Which means we understand the problems facing trainers and gyms, from quality control to trainer support.
VOR instantly delivers high-class, personalised workout plans, reducing the time trainers spend researching and planning workouts so they can get on with what they do best: motivation, accountability, support and safeguarding.
Created by experts in the field, VOR’s advanced, adaptive AI engine uses principles from astrophysics to solve the unique problems of scale and accessibility in the fitness space.
VOR adapts to your training style, equipment and floor plans, optimising your space to make sure it’s being used in the best way possible. And you don’t need a new tech stack or any new hardware to use it.
VOR integrates then enhances, providing powerful automation capabilities to your existing services, and supercharging your fitness operations.
Creating a seamless end-to-end personal training experience, VOR technology increases your efficiency, client engagement, and potential for business growth.
In Action:
Generate
With just a few inputs like exerciser goals and skill level, the VOR Engine instantly generates a structured, effective training plan. This allows trainers to save 30+ minutes of manual programming.
- Instantly create personalised programmes for all levels
- Streamlined, efficient and high-quality programming
- Save valuable time with automated precision
In Action:
Customise
Trainers are empowered to make adjustments or create new variations instantly, providing ultimate flexibility. From fine-tuning exercise intensity to swapping exercises, VOR provides unmatched customisation options at every step.
- Refine training plans with a few simple clicks
- Adjust intensity, volume, and exercise choices effortlessly
- Deliver tailored experiences with ease and control
In Action:
Adapt
VOR evolves with your exercisers by adjusting programmes in response to changing needs. Showcasing real-time adaptability, the platform makes quick adjustments based on new goals or progress, ensuring the programme stays relevant and effective over time.
- Easily update programmes as goals change
- Responsive, real-time modifications to support growth
- Keep members engaged and challenged with progressive plans
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FAQs
No. We’ve spent years as trainers ourselves, so we know that AI can never replace them and gyms will only hurt themselves if they try. Instead, we’re empowering trainers to focus on what matters most – motivation, accountability, safeguarding and support – instead of spending all their time and energy on workout planning. We think our technology will do for trainers what the calculator did for accountants.
Nope. We just want to automate the repetitive parts of trainers’ jobs, so our AI for gyms is designed to integrate with your business and offer an experience customised for you. Which means no new hardware, and no new tech stack.
VOR technology has been designed and overseen by our experienced team of AI experts and personal trainers every step of the way. Rooted in exercise science best practices, it uses parameters for injuries, targets, training environments and backgrounds to make sure your trainers are well equipped to help every client smash their fitness goals.
Our automation engine is not a plugin to a Large Language Model (LLM) like ChatGPT, which can provide unreliable and unpredictable results that might look good enough to the untrained eye, but aren’t safe or appropriate for the exerciser. Our AI is built from scratch for the specific purpose of creating workouts, drawing on our CTO Jesse Shanahan’s background in astrophysics. This means we have a tool that is fully customisable to any fitness business and its unique training style.
With the help of our AI workout generator, your trainers can run higher-quality and more consistent workout plans for improved member experience and retention. By empowering trainers to be their best selves on the gym floor, you’ll see a reduction in staff turnover, which supports good gym culture. More engaged members and higher quality training have a bottom-line impact: in the medium and long term, VOR provides a high ROI.
