What the AI coach can see, what it can't, and how it makes decisions
AI Coach's coaching assistant is powered by large language models from third-party providers (currently Anthropic and OpenAI). The platform clearly identifies the assistant as AI, never as a human coach. Your assigned human coach is a separate, real person — when you message them through Messages, that goes to a human, not to the AI.
When you have a coaching conversation, the AI receives:
AI Coach sends your messages to AI providers for inference only. We have contractual no-training agreements with our model providers — your conversations, reflections, and memory are processed in real time and not retained by the providers for training. Your data is never used to improve the underlying models.
Every coaching conversation runs through a boundary-detection layer. If the conversation moves toward areas the AI is not qualified to handle (e.g. crisis, medical, legal), the AI redirects you to a human coach or external resource rather than attempting to advise. This system is conservative by design: when in doubt, it escalates.
Where AI generates content that drives decisions (e.g. competency scores, recommendations on the Journey page), AI Coach surfaces a provenance line — framework name, version, and whether the output is rule-derived or AI-analysed. This means you can always trace why a recommendation appears.
AI output can be wrong. If the assistant says something incorrect, harmful, or off-base, you can flag it via the Report-an-issue affordance in the user menu, or raise it directly with your human coach via Messages. Your feedback feeds the prompt-tuning and boundary-detection improvements.
Tenant administrators (your organisation's coaches and admins) configure the coaching modes, competency frameworks, and content sources for AI Coach. They cannot read individual user conversations, memory, or reflections — tenant isolation is enforced at the database layer (RLS) and at the application layer (tenant-scoped queries). Administrators see aggregate analytics and their own coaching threads with participants, nothing more.
Last updated: 2026-04-25. For technical detail on encryption and isolation, see the Privacy & Security page.