Performance Intelligence

The analyst layer between your wearable and your next session

Every serious athlete generates the data. Nobody connects it into a decision. P247 does.

Myles Bruggeling | Founder
March 2026 | Pre-Seed
p247.io
01 The Problem

Athletes are drowning in data and still guessing

The average serious endurance athlete (Hyrox, Ironman, marathon, cycling) wears 1.7 devices and uses 3+ apps to track their training, recovery, sleep, and nutrition. Each app reports its own metrics. None of them talk to each other.

The result: an athlete wakes up, sees a green recovery score on Whoop, checks Garmin which says yellow, glances at their sleep score, remembers they did heavy deadlifts yesterday, and has to make a training decision with conflicting, siloed information.

The gap is not data collection. It's data interpretation. Every wearable tells you what happened. None of them tell you what it means for today.

78%
of athletes say wearable data
doesn't change their behaviour
3.2
average apps used by
serious endurance athletes
$300+
annual spend on fragmented
point-solution subscriptions

What athletes actually say

"I wore my Whoop for over 3 years. More negative mental impact than positive. I found that when I stopped wearing it, I was better able to interpret my body."
— Cortland B., Ironman athlete (Facebook)
"Pretty cool gadget but very useless if you are minimally outside of the algorithm. Support even offered a full refund after 2 months."
— r/whoop user, 2026
"I'm in the process of thinking about getting generic sensors to upload data to the cloud and get an LLM to crunch it for me based on my own requirements."
— r/whoop user, March 2026 (attempting to build what P247 does)
02 The Solution

P247 is the analyst layer your wearable is missing

P247 reads your Garmin, Whoop, Apple Health, Strava, and nutrition data overnight and sends you one clear signal each morning: what your body is actually saying, and what today should look like based on it.

Not a dashboard. Not a training plan. Not a replacement for your coach. A performance analyst that cross-references your recovery, training load, sleep architecture, nutrition, and adaptation trend into a single daily decision.

What P247 does

  • Daily Morning Brief — proactive, personalised, delivered before your session via Telegram/push
  • Multi-source synthesis — HRV + sleep quality + training load + nutrition + subjective feel, cross-referenced
  • Adaptation tracking — monitors how your body responds to the same stimulus over weeks and months
  • Event periodisation — adjusts recommendations based on proximity to your target race
  • Transparent reasoning — every recommendation explains why, not just what

What P247 is NOT

  • Not another dashboard or data visualisation tool
  • Not a training plan generator
  • Not a coach replacement
  • Not a hardware product
  • Not another black-box recovery score

The analogy: Your wearable is the blood test. P247 is the doctor who reads it, cross-references your history, and tells you what to do about it.

How it works

StepWhat happens
ConnectAthlete links Garmin/Whoop/Apple Health + Strava + optional nutrition app. Takes 2 minutes.
SleepOvernight, P247 ingests biometric data, cross-references training history, and runs contextual analysis.
WakeBefore the athlete's session, they receive a brief: readiness score + reasoning + what today should look like.
LearnOver weeks, P247 builds a personalised model of the athlete's recovery patterns, stress responses, and adaptation rate.
03 Market Opportunity

The athlete performance market is large, growing, and underserved

$12.4B
Global sports analytics
market by 2028
196M
Connected wearable
users globally
22%
CAGR wearable
analytics market

Target segments (in order of launch priority)

SegmentSizeWhy P247
Hyrox athletes300K+ registered globally, fastest-growing fitness race formatMixed-modality training (run + functional) breaks every existing load model. No wearable handles it.
Ironman / triathlon2M+ active globallySwim/bike/run load differently. Recovery is the competitive edge, not more training.
Marathon runners6.4M finishers/yr (US alone)Overtraining and taper errors cost race results. HRV trend + load context prevents both.
Serious gym + endurance12M+ dual-training athletesStrength training fatigue is invisible to every wearable. P247 fills the gap.

Beachhead: Hyrox + Ironman athletes in English-speaking markets

Initial focus: Australia, UK, US, Canada. These athletes are data-literate, already spend on wearables and apps, and compete in events with clear periodisation windows (which drive subscription retention).

Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM): 50,000 athletes in Year 1 at $15/month = $9M ARR potential. Conservative capture rate of 2% of addressable Hyrox + Ironman audience in English-speaking markets.

04 Traction & Validation

Pre-product validation (February — March 2026)

Before writing a single line of product code, we ran a structured community validation campaign across Reddit (9 subreddits) and Facebook groups (6 groups) to test whether the problem is real, urgent, and worth paying to solve.

23
Qualifying pain signals
logged (target was 20)
3
Red lights
(pain doesn't exist)
88%
Signal-to-noise ratio
(qualifying vs red)

What "qualifying" means

A response qualified only if the athlete described a specific moment where wearable data failed to drive a training decision. Not "yeah same" agreement. Specific, personal frustration with context.

Pattern analysis: what athletes actually said

Pain theme# signalsExample
Score ≠ how I feel8"Green recovery, legs destroyed. Ignored the score."
Data as noise, not signal6"Mostly I just get the noise but don't do anything about it."
Abandoned device entirely4"Threw the toys away, listen to my body."
Built own system (spreadsheet/manual)3"I manually correlate InBody + Strava + Apple HRV in a Google Sheet every Sunday."
Overhead too high to sustain2"Too much work for me to do year round" (Ironman athlete)

Content traction (Week 1)

Key insight: One Reddit user (r/whoop) described building exactly what P247 does — "getting generic sensors to upload data to the cloud and get an LLM to crunch it based on my requirements." The market isn't just ready. It's trying to build this itself.

05 Competitive Landscape

Everyone measures. Nobody interprets.

PlayerWhat they doWhat they miss
Whoop ($288/yr)Recovery + strain scoring via HRV/RHRNo training context, no nutrition, no strength load, generic rolling baseline, opaque algorithm
Garmin (free w/ device)Training readiness, body battery, load focusDoesn't factor gym work, no nutrition, can't distinguish fatigue types, no multi-device synthesis
Oura ($72/yr)Sleep + readiness scoringNo training load integration, no sport-specific context, passive reporting only
TrainingPeaks ($120/yr)CTL/ATL/TSB load modelNo recovery data, no sleep, no nutrition, TSS conflates all load types, no life context
Athlytic ($36/yr)Apple Health visualisationBasic recovery scoring (just HRV+RHR), no synthesis, no coaching, no periodisation
athletedata.healthAI coach via TelegramEarly stage competitor, limited device integration, unproven retention

P247's positioning: We don't compete with wearables. We sit on top of all of them. The more devices an athlete owns, the more valuable P247 becomes. Our competitors are each other's blind spots.

Defensibility

Short-term moats

  • Multi-source synthesis — no competitor reads across Garmin + Whoop + Apple Health + Strava + nutrition simultaneously
  • Content + community — SEO-first content strategy building organic discovery from day one
  • Founder credibility — Myles is a Grafana Labs engineer (observability expert) who trains for Hyrox. The domain expertise is genuine.

Long-term moats

  • Personalisation depth — the longer an athlete uses P247, the better their model becomes (switching cost)
  • Network data effects — aggregate patterns across athletes improve recommendations for everyone
  • Event integration — partnerships with race organisers (Hyrox, Ironman) for pre-race briefing packages

Risk: Apple enters the space

Apple could build coaching into Health (iOS 20+). However: Apple's strength is hardware + ecosystem lock-in, not personalised AI coaching for niche sports. Apple will optimise for the median user. P247 optimises for the serious athlete. Apple entering validates the market and drives wearable adoption (which grows our addressable base). Our 12-18 month window is real, but our niche positioning survives even if Apple ships a generic coaching layer.

06 Business Model

SaaS subscription with event-driven retention

TierPriceIncludes
Core$15/month (or $144/year)Daily morning brief, multi-device sync, readiness scoring with reasoning, adaptation tracking, basic periodisation
Pro$25/month (or $240/year)Everything in Core + event-specific periodisation, nutrition integration, advanced sleep analysis, exportable reports, InBody integration
Team (future)$20/athlete/monthCoach dashboard, team-wide readiness view, group periodisation for training squads

Unit economics (target at scale)

$18
Blended ARPU
(monthly)
$216
Annual revenue
per athlete
85%
Target gross
margin
14mo
Target average
retention

Why retention is structurally high

Revenue projections

MilestoneSubscribersMRRARR
Month 6 (beta)200$3,600$43K
Month 121,500$27,000$324K
Month 248,000$144,000$1.7M
Month 3625,000$450,000$5.4M
07 Go-to-Market Strategy

Phase 1: Earn credibility (Now — June 2026)

Phase 2: Beta launch (July 2026)

Phase 3: Scale (September 2026+)

Customer acquisition cost targets

ChannelTarget CACNotes
Organic content (SEO + social)$0-5Primary channel. Content is the product's top-of-funnel.
Community referral$8-12Athletes tell training partners. Event-driven virality.
Paid social (Phase 3)$25-40Targeted: Whoop/Garmin owners + Hyrox/Ironman interest.
Coach partnerships$15-20Coach recommends to 10-50 athletes. Low CAC, high LTV.

Target LTV:CAC ratio: 8:1+ via organic content channels. The blog and community engagement are not marketing activities. They ARE the growth engine.

08 Founder

Myles Bruggeling — Founder & CEO

Domain expertise

  • Grafana Labs — Support Engineer, APAC (current). Works daily with observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces) at enterprise scale. Understands data synthesis, alerting, and threshold-based decision-making at a systems level.
  • Target: Observability Architect — the role that designs how organisations make sense of complex, multi-source data streams. This is exactly what P247 does for athletes.
  • MSP Founder — Commit-IT — runs a managed services business (6 MSA clients + 12 T&M). Understands recurring revenue, customer retention, and service delivery.

Athlete credibility

  • Hyrox competitor — training for Partner Hyrox (July 2026) with his wife
  • Half-marathon runner — targeting sub 1:45 (August 2026)
  • Daily training — 6am hybrid strength + conditioning, 6 days/week
  • Lives the problem: Wears Garmin, uses Strava, tracks nutrition, does InBody scans. Personally experiences every frustration P247 solves.

Why this founder for this problem: The intersection of professional observability engineering (making sense of complex multi-source data) and serious athlete training (living the wearable frustration daily) is rare. Myles doesn't just understand the market. He is the market.

Technical approach

Hiring plan (post-funding)

RoleWhenWhy
Full-stack engineerMonth 1Build integrations (Garmin/Whoop/Apple Health APIs) and morning brief delivery pipeline
Sports science advisorMonth 2Validate interpretation framework, ensure recommendations are evidence-based
Growth marketerMonth 4Scale content engine, manage community, optimise conversion
09 The Ask

Pre-seed: $250K AUD

Use of fundsAllocationPurpose
Engineering$120K (48%)Full-stack hire + API integrations + morning brief engine
Product validation$40K (16%)50-athlete concierge beta, sports science advisory, interpretation framework validation
Growth$50K (20%)Content production, SEO infrastructure, community management, event activations
Operations$40K (16%)Infrastructure (hosting, APIs, LLM costs), legal, accounting

Milestones this capital achieves

What we've done with $0

23
Validated pain signals
from real athletes
10
SEO blog posts
published in 7 days
50+
Organic community
conversations
$0
Spent on paid
acquisition

Let's talk

P247 is building the analyst layer that serious athletes are already trying to build themselves in spreadsheets. The market is validated. The timing is right. The founder lives the problem every day.

myles@p247.io

p247.io