Coached Athletes Setup

Coaches add athletes to Montis with a one-time invite link. The athlete opens the link, signs in with Intervals.icu and accepts. The coach can then work with that athlete's training in ChatGPT, Claude and the Montis App.

Invite links replace the old Coached_Athletes folder in Intervals.icu. If you used the folder, see Moving from the Coached_Athletes folder.

• What it is
• Who needs what
• For coaches: invite an athlete
• For athletes: accept an invite
• Managing your athletes
• Coach branding (optional)
• Moving from the Coached_Athletes folder
• Privacy and control
• Troubleshooting
• Where to use your athletes

What it is

1. The coach creates an invite link in the Montis hub at https://montis.icu/app, on the Coaching tab.
2. The coach sends the link to one athlete, by WhatsApp, email or text. Montis doesn't send anything.
3. The athlete opens the link, signs in with Intervals.icu and presses Accept and share.
4. The athlete appears in the coach's list. The coach can now see their training and plan workouts through Montis.

Invite links look like this:

https://montis.icu/invite/<code>

Each link works once, for one athlete, for 14 days. Intervals.icu stays the source of truth. The coach can reach the athlete's Intervals.icu data through Montis only while the athlete shares it. Either side can end the sharing at any time.

Who needs what

• The Subscriber membership is on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/revo2wheels/membership. A one-off Supporter payment doesn't include coaching.
• Montis finds your membership by email. If your Intervals.icu email and your membership email differ, Montis can't see your membership and you can't create invites.
• Only the coach pays. The hub says it like this: "Only you need a Subscriber membership. Athletes use Montis free, and can stop sharing at any time from their hub."

For coaches: invite an athlete

1. Open the Coaching tab

• Open https://montis.icu/app.
• If you aren't signed in, press Connect Intervals and approve access in Intervals.icu.
• Open the Coaching tab. It shows Your athletes on the left and Invite an athlete on the right.

The Coaching tab only appears when you can create invites or already have athletes. If you don't see it, check your membership (see Who needs what).

2. Create an invite link

• In Invite an athlete, add a Private note if you like. Only you see it, for example Paul – half marathon. It can be up to 60 characters.
• Press Create invite link.
• The panel shows Link ready and copied. The link is already on your clipboard.
• Press Copy link to copy it again. On phones and some browsers, Share… opens your device's share sheet.
• If your browser blocks copying, a Copy this link box shows the link selected. Copy it with Ctrl+C (Cmd+C on a Mac) and press Done.

3. Send the link yourself

• Send the link to one athlete, by WhatsApp, email or text.
• Montis doesn't send anything.
• Each link works once, for one athlete, until the date shown under the link (14 days).
• Create one link per athlete. For a group, create a link for each person.

4. See the athlete in your list

• When the athlete accepts, reload the hub page. The athlete appears in Your athletes with the badge Invite and the status Signed in.
• Until then, the link is listed under Pending invites.

For athletes: accept an invite

Your coach sends you a link that starts with https://montis.icu/invite/. Accepting is free.

1. Open the link in your browser

Open the link in Safari or Chrome. Signing in doesn't work inside WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook. If the link opens there, the page shows an amber notice. Use the menu (⋯) and choose Open in browser.

2. Check who invited you and sign in

• The page shows your coach's name, and their logo and website if they added them.
• Under If you accept, [coach] can: it lists what your coach can do. See Privacy and control.
• Press Sign in with Intervals.icu and approve access in Intervals.icu.
• New to Intervals.icu? It's free. Create an account at intervals.icu, connect your watch or bike computer, then come back to the link and sign in. The page shows the date the link works until.

3. Accept and share

• The page now says Signed in as with your name and Intervals.icu ID.
• Wrong account? Press Not you? to sign out. If Intervals.icu signs the same account straight back in, sign out at intervals.icu first.
• Press Accept and share. Or press No thanks to leave without sharing anything.

4. Next steps

The page confirms that you're now sharing with your coach, then lists four next steps:

1. Connect your watch or bike computer directly in Intervals.icu (Settings → Connections). Strava-only activities can't be analysed.
2. Set your FTP, threshold heart rate or pace and zones (Settings → Sports), or let your coach plan a test.
3. Optional: switch on wellness sync (sleep, HRV, resting heart rate).
4. Your coach can plan workouts straight away. Reports need about a week of training.

Press Open your Montis hub to see your coaches. You can also use Montis yourself there, and stop sharing at any time.

5. Your coaches in the hub

Your coaches are listed on the Your coaches tab at https://montis.icu/app. Each card shows the coach, the date you started sharing and what they can do. Stop sharing ends it.

Managing your athletes

Your athletes

The list is sorted by name. It has three columns.

Montis sign-in

• Signed in: Montis can read this athlete's Intervals.icu data.
• Not signed in yet: the athlete is on your list, but Montis can't read their data yet. Ask them to sign in at https://montis.icu/app with Intervals.icu. You also see this after an athlete presses Disconnect apps in their hub.

Added via

Remove

• Press Remove next to an athlete. Montis asks "Remove [name]?" and explains: "You will no longer be able to see their data in Montis."
• Press Remove to confirm.
• Nothing changes in the athlete's Intervals.icu account.
• To work together again, send them a new invite.
• Folder only athletes have no Remove button. Take them out of your Coached_Athletes folder in Intervals.icu instead.

Pending invites

Invites that nobody has accepted yet are listed under Pending invites, with your private note and the expiry date.

• Copy link copies the link again.
• Cancel stops the link working. Montis asks "Cancel this invite?". Press Cancel invite to confirm, or Keep invite. You can create a new one at any time.
• An invite leaves the list when it is accepted, cancelled or expires.

Limits

• Up to 20 pending invites at a time.
• Up to 50 athletes linked through Montis.

If your membership stops

If your Subscriber membership isn't active, coaching pauses:

• The hub says how many "invited athlete(s) are paused because your Montis Subscriber membership isn't active."
• Athletes who open one of your invites see "Coaching isn't active right now".
• You can't open coached athletes in ChatGPT, Claude or the Montis App.

When your membership is active again, your athletes come back. Nothing is deleted.

Coach branding (optional)

Add your logo, team name, website, brand colour and theme in Your coach branding on the Coaching tab.

• Logo. Press Upload image (later Replace). PNG, JPG or WebP · square works best · at least 256 × 256 px · up to 1 MB. Remove takes it away. A white logo on a see-through background is put on a black square when you upload it, so it shows everywhere.
• Team or club name (optional). For example Anna Weber Coaching, up to 60 characters. With the black & white theme it's shown at the top of the Montis App in place of "Intelligence Lab".
• Short name (optional). For example AW COACHING, up to 16 characters. With the black & white theme it's shown next to your logo in the Montis App menu.
• Website (optional). Shown under your name. https:// is added for you.
• Brand colour. Type a hex colour such as #E11D48, or press the swatch to pick one. From your logo: suggests colours taken from your logo. Use Montis green goes back to the default.
• Black & white theme for me and my athletes. Uses black and white in the Montis App for you and your athletes, and on your invite page. Status colours stay the same.
• Preview shows a button in your colour. Text on your colour switches between black and white automatically so it stays readable.
• Press Save for the team name, website, colour and theme. The logo is saved when you upload it.

Where it shows:

• Athletes see your logo and website on your invite page and in their list of coaches. Without a logo, they see your initials.
• The Montis App and your emails use your brand colour.
• With the black & white theme, the Montis App is black and white for you and your athletes, with your logo and short name in the menu and your team name at the top. Your invite page is black and white too. Emails still use your brand colour.
• Your athletes can choose Use Montis colours on their Athlete Profile instead.

Moving from the Coached_Athletes folder

Before invite links, coaches shared a private Coached_Athletes folder in Intervals.icu. Montis now keeps its own list, so the folder is no longer needed.

• Moved automatically. When invites started for your account, Montis moved everyone already shared in your folder into Montis, once. They show Moved to Montis. They don't need to accept an invite. In their hub, your card says "Moved from their Coached_Athletes folder".
• Folder only. Athletes added to the folder after that move were not moved. They show Folder only and still rely on the folder. Send each of them an invite.
• The banner. The Coaching tab shows a banner that tells you when the folder can go:
  • "Almost done with your Coached_Athletes folder" while anyone is still Folder only. It adds: "First send an invite to anyone marked Folder only, or they will lose access."
  • "Your Coached_Athletes folder isn't needed any more" when nobody is Folder only.
• Delete the folder from your Intervals.icu workout library once nobody is marked Folder only. The banner tells you when. Coaching carries on as normal.
• The banner only says the folder can go when Montis could check your whole list.
• The close (X) button hides the banner for good in that browser. If you closed it, check your list instead: the folder can go once nobody is marked Folder only.

Privacy and control

What the coach can do

The invite page lists exactly what the athlete agrees to. If the athlete accepts, the coach can:

• See their activities, wellness (sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, weight and similar), calendar and training reports.
• Plan, change or delete workouts on their calendar.
• Update their wellness entries.
• Use all of this with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini through Montis.

What stays private

• Athletes never see each other. An athlete sees only their own coaches. They never see the coach's list or other athletes.
• Coaches see only athletes who shared with them. Someone appears on the list only after accepting an invite, after being moved from the coach's folder, or while they are still in the coach's Coached_Athletes folder in Intervals.icu (Folder only).
• Private notes on invites are seen only by the coach.
• Passwords stay at Intervals.icu. Athletes sign in on intervals.icu itself.

Stop sharing at any time

• Athlete: open https://montis.icu/app, go to Your coaches and press Stop sharing. Montis asks "Stop sharing with [coach]?": "They will no longer see your training or plan workouts for you in Montis. They can invite you again later if you both want." Press Stop sharing to confirm, or Keep sharing.
• Athlete: Disconnect apps in the hub removes the Intervals.icu connection from Montis. It ends access for Claude, ChatGPT, the Montis App, browser sessions and any coaches until you connect again. If you connect again later, your coaches see your data again. To end sharing with a coach for good, use Stop sharing.
• Coach: Remove ends access to that athlete.
• The folder is separate. If you are also in a coach's Coached_Athletes folder in Intervals.icu, they can also see you there. Ask them to remove you, or leave the folder in Intervals.icu.

Montis Privacy · Terms

Troubleshooting

On the invite page (athletes)

In the hub (coaches)

In ChatGPT, Claude or the Montis App

Where to use your athletes

Once athletes are on your list, use them wherever you use Montis. Only athletes marked Signed in can be opened.

• Montis App (https://app.montis.icu). In the sidebar, open Coaches:
  • Coach Roster lists your athletes. Choose one to work with their data (coach mode). Primary Account takes you back to your own data.
  • Coach Cockpit shows a weekly overview of your connected athletes, up to 25 at a time.
  • The other pages in Coaching Athletes explain the Coach Roster, the Coach Cockpit and its AI roster review, the Coaching Workflow and its email report, and the Session Intensity Lab analysis email.
• ChatGPT (Open in ChatGPT on the hub's Apps tab). Ask for your coached athletes, then name the athlete you want to work on.
• Claude (the Montis connector, Open Claude connectors on the hub's Apps tab). Coached Athletes lists your athletes with their IDs. Coach Cockpit gives the weekly overview: 25 athletes by default, up to 50 if you ask.

Coach Cockpit is only in Claude and the Montis App.

Example requests in ChatGPT or Claude:

Show my coached athletes.
Run the weekly report for Lena Brandt.
Plan three easy runs next week for Sofia Lind.

In Claude only:

Open the coach cockpit.