FAQ & User Guides

P247 is the decision layer for athletes who train with intent. It turns data from Apple Health — plus optional Strava, and context you add yourself — into a daily brief that explains your recovery score and a weekly performance report with one clear call on what to change next. Around those sit coach chat, goal plans, body composition tracking, heart-rate zones, a sleep plan and blood test scans.

The point is simple: you already have the data. P247 tells you what to do next.

P247 is for athletes who train seriously but do not have a full performance team reviewing their week. That includes HYROX competitors, marathon and half marathon runners, triathletes, Ironman athletes, cyclists, ultra athletes, hybrid athletes and masters athletes.

It also suits athletes who are losing weight and want to protect muscle, fuel training properly and track body composition scans alongside scale weight.

At launch, P247 connects to Apple Health (iOS / HealthKit). That alone is enough for the weekly report. Strava is an optional connection for more training detail.

Many athletes already use Garmin, WHOOP, Oura, Apple Watch or similar tools. Data from those devices can reach P247 when it syncs into Apple Health, or when activities land in Strava. You can also add notes, nutrition context and body-composition results yourself.

No. Apple Health alone is enough for the weekly performance report on iOS. Strava is optional — connect it if you want more training detail on top of Health data.

In short: Strava is an activity log (rides, runs and other sessions you record or sync there). It isn't required for your first report. You can also add notes yourself.

P247 is in early access ahead of App Store launch at the end of November 2026. Your first weekly performance report is free. Join the waitlist on our homepage or early access page.

A recovery score out of 100 built from your sleep (including deep sleep and how broken it was), HRV, resting heart rate and training load, with the inputs that moved it shown so you can check the score rather than take it on trust.

It then makes one call for the day: Push Today, Train Smart or Recovery Only, with the reason and anything worth fixing today.

The weekly report includes your main decision and the pattern behind it, what improved and what got worse, a training load summary, your recovery trend (sleep, HRV and resting heart rate), nutrition risk, strength sessions and how close they sat to your key runs, event readiness for the event you are training for, three actions for the next week, a confidence level with any data gaps, and one coach question. When you have logged protein and carbs on at least four days, it also suggests macro targets for the next week.

Nutrition comes from connected data where available, and from what you enter yourself. The report is written like a coach briefing, not a dashboard. Decision first. Reason second. Actions third.

Every report carries a confidence level (high, medium or low) based on how many days of sleep, HRV and nutrition data it had to work with. It lists the gaps plainly, such as missing sleep or HRV on three or more days, or nutrition too patchy for confident fuelling calls. A day with no data is treated as missing, not as zero. HRV is only compared with readings taken the same way, so a change in how your watch measures it does not look like a change in your recovery.

Each report ends with one question about the context it is missing: what pulled your sleep down, whether the week was heavier than planned, or how you feel heading into a taper. Your answer is carried into the next week's report, so it reads your week with that context and does not ask the same thing twice.

Both, with different jobs. One bad night or one green score can mislead you, so the daily brief shows what moved your recovery score and gives a call for the day.

The weekly report steps back and compares load, sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, nutrition, intensity and consistency across the full week, then makes the bigger call for next week.

P247 can recommend whether to build, hold, pull back, add intensity, protect recovery, improve fuelling, reduce load, shift a session or watch a specific event readiness risk.

The report should explain why the decision was made so you are not left guessing.

It does not have to. If you already have a coach or a plan, keep it: P247 helps you interpret the week, and the weekly report gives you something clear to discuss with your coach.

If you do not have a plan, goal plans can build a dated plan of sessions for your goal. When your week changes, P247 proposes adjustments and nothing changes until you approve them.

Partly, today. Your answer to the coach question is carried into the next week's report, and the coach chat can remember facts you tell it.

The longer-term goal is a fuller performance memory: decisions, outcomes, recurring patterns and what worked last time.

Ask questions about your own training and recovery. The coach reads your last two weeks of sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, training, nutrition and body data, plus your events and any injury you have logged. You can set its tone and how you want replies written.

Coach chat uses an AI provider to write its replies. See our Privacy Policy for how that data is handled.

Set a goal and P247 drafts a dated plan of sessions with guidance and intensity, respecting any injury you have logged. If you have more than one goal, one is primary and the others fit around it.

When your week changes, the plan proposes adjustments for you to approve or reject, and you mark sessions as done.

Five zones, calculated from your maximum heart rate, heart-rate reserve or threshold heart rate, or set by you. You can also copy in, by hand, the zones you already use in Strava.

P247 can propose a maximum heart rate from your own recordings: the highest rate you actually held for a full minute. It is only used if you accept it.

Set your usual wake-up times (and any one-off changes) and P247 gives you a bedtime and a wind-down time for the coming nights. Your sleep target is adjusted for the previous day's training load and any recent sleep debt.

Yes. Scan a photo or PDF of your results, or enter markers yourself. P247 reads the markers and their reference ranges, groups them (for example hormones, vitamins, lipids, thyroid, liver and kidney), tracks them across tests and gives a plain-English summary with one suggested focus for training.

It adds context for your training. It is not a diagnosis or medical advice, so talk to your doctor about any result that concerns you. Blood test results are sensitive health data: see our Privacy Policy for how they are processed.

P247 reads the week against the demands of your event. A HYROX athlete needs different guidance from a marathon runner, Ironman athlete, cyclist or ultra runner.

Event readiness checks can include compromised running, strength endurance, grip fatigue, sled work, long run durability, bike load, swim bike run balance, heat, fuelling and recovery debt.

Yes. HYROX is one of the core early markets. P247 can help connect running, strength endurance, lower body fatigue, grip load, wall ball tolerance, knee stress and recovery trend across the week.

Yes. P247 is built for endurance athletes who already track a lot of data but still need a clearer decision. Marathon, half marathon, Ironman, triathlon, cycling and ultra training all create load and recovery patterns that need weekly context.

P247 can use recovery metrics such as HRV and resting heart rate, sleep duration and quality, workouts, training load, intensity, pace, power, heart rate, body composition, nutrition, hydration, event goals and notes about injury, stress or travel.

The report should also show data gaps. If nutrition is too patchy to trust, P247 should say that plainly.

No. Perfect data is not required. P247 should work with what you have and flag what it cannot see clearly.

Better data gives better reports, but missing data should not block useful weekly guidance.

Strava is optional. If you connect it, P247 uses OAuth — you authorise once and activity data can sync automatically as an activity log alongside Apple Health. P247 never sees or stores your Strava password; it keeps only the access token Strava issues, and you can disconnect at any time. Apple Health alone is still enough for the weekly report.

No. Apple Health is useful because many devices and apps can write data into it. If you use Garmin, WHOOP, Oura or another device that syncs into Apple Health, P247 can use that data path where available. Activities in Strava can also feed the weekly report.

P247 reads from Apple Health / HealthKit with your permission. It is read-only — P247 never writes data back to Apple Health. You choose what to share in iOS Health permissions, and you can change that at any time.

Categories P247 can read (when you allow them):

• Workouts
• Heart: HRV, resting heart rate, heart rate, VO2 max
• Recovery & sleep: sleep, sleeping wrist temperature, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, mindful minutes
• Activity: steps, distance, active/resting energy, exercise minutes, flights climbed, time in daylight, walking speed
• Running form: speed, power, stride length, vertical oscillation, ground contact time
• Nutrition: calories, macros, fibre, sugar, sodium, potassium, cholesterol, caffeine, water, alcohol
• Body: weight, body fat percentage, lean mass, BMI

Apple Health alone is enough for the weekly performance report. Strava is an optional extra for more training detail. Notes you enter yourself can still fill gaps.

The App Store launch at the end of November 2026 is iOS-first (Apple Health / HealthKit). An Android version is planned for 2027.

Not as a section of its own. Your scans and smart-scale readings live on the body composition screen, where you can follow them over time, and coach chat can see your recent body measurements when you ask it a question.

You can log DEXA and InBody scan results, and smart-scale readings such as weight and body fat come in through Apple Health. The body composition screen shows them over time and treats DEXA as the most accurate source, then InBody, then a smart scale.

Yes. Your health, training and coaching data is private to you. We do not sell your data, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not use it to train public AI models. Coach chat, goal plans, blood test scans and workout summaries are processed by an AI provider; the daily score and weekly decision come from set rules. The app asks for your permission before the coach, goal plans and plan adjustments, workout summaries, blood test reading or programme photo reading send anything, and you can turn these features off in Settings > Health data and privacy. You can delete your account in the app and request an export of your data from privacy@p247.io — full detail is in our Privacy Policy.

No. P247 provides training and performance guidance based on your data. It is not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. That includes blood test summaries, which add context for training only. For injury, illness, medication, test results or medical concerns, speak to a qualified health professional.