Sep 7, 2026 – 5.00am

Every morning, Joel Richards gets a Slack notification telling him how he slept overnight and what his resting heart rate was. At the end of each week, he receives a more detailed report outlining his biggest hits and misses over the previous seven days as he trains for a 100-kilometre rowing event in December.

The messages don’t come from a highly organised personal trainer but an AI-powered app that the 40-year-old software engineer built for himself.

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