Private coach pilot now open
Every player gets a plan. Not just the ones you had time for.
You talk through what you see in a player. They answer a few questions on their phone. IDP Engine turns both sides into a development plan you would be comfortable sending home.
Free during the pilot · Up to 3 players · Reviewed by a person, not a signup form
Maya Torres
What Maya said
“I want to be calmer when I receive the ball with pressure behind me.”
What her coach sees
She sees space early and connects play. The next step is receiving on the half turn with conviction instead of playing back to safety.
Development focus
Receiving under pressure — scanning before the ball arrives, then taking the first touch forward.
Example plan. Written from a coach conversation and a player reflection, then reviewed by the coach before anyone sees it.
The honest problem
Development plans are a great idea until it is 9pm on a Tuesday.
Writing one good plan takes about forty minutes. Multiply that by a full roster and it stops happening — not because coaches do not care, but because the maths does not work.
So clubs land on one of three compromises:
- The backlog
- Three players get a thoughtful plan. The rest of the roster waits for a week that never comes.
- The template
- Everyone gets a plan, but they are interchangeable. Parents notice when two players receive the same paragraph.
- The patchwork
- One age group does IDPs properly, another does not, and the club has no consistent standard to point to.
How it works
Three steps, and two of them are yours.
About ten minutes of coach time per player. The player does their own part on their own schedule.
- 01Coach · about 5 minutes
Talk through the player
Answer a short guided conversation about one player — what is working, what the next step is, what you want the plan to push. Type it or dictate it walking to the car.
- 02Player · about 8 minutes
The player answers too
They open a secure link on their phone. No app, no account. It asks follow-up questions when an answer is thin, the way a good one-on-one actually goes.
- 03Coach · about 5 minutes
Review, approve, and send
IDP Engine drafts the plan from both sides. You review the draft, regenerate it when needed, and approve the version you want before exporting or sharing it. Nothing reaches a family before you approve it.
What comes out
A document that reads like you wrote it.
Every plan follows the same five sections, so a parent reading their second one knows exactly where to look. It exports as a clean PDF — no logos of ours, no AI watermark, nothing that undercuts the club.
You can re-generate a plan up to three times if the draft is not landing. Review and approve the version you want, then export or share it with the family.
- What the player said
- Their own words, quoted — not paraphrased into coach-speak.
- What the coach sees
- Your read on where they are, written in your voice.
- Development focus
- One or two things to work on. Specific enough to train.
- Goals this season
- What progress looks like, in terms the player recognises.
- What the coach is asking
- The one commitment you want from them next.
Working with minors
The part a club director will ask about first.
Nothing sends itself
You review and approve every plan before a family can see it. There is no automatic delivery.
Links expire
Player invites are single-purpose, PIN-gated, and expire after seven days.
Adults handle permission
Parent or guardian notice happens before a player is invited — the player screen only asks if they are ready.
Bounded retention
Transcripts are kept 90 days and plans for one year. Deletion requests go to a person.
Full detail lives in the privacy policy. If something there does not work for your club, say so in your pilot request — that feedback is part of what the pilot is for.
The pilot
Run one real cycle before anyone talks about pricing.
IDP Engine is in a private coach pilot. A small number of coaches are taking a few players end to end so the workflow gets shaped by real use before it opens up.
What you get
- The full coach and player workflow
- Up to 3 players, free during the pilot
- PDF export of every finished plan
- Direct line to the person building it
What is asked of you
- Take at least one player all the way through
- Tell us honestly where the plan missed
- One short feedback call at the end
- Handle parent or guardian notice for your players
Running a whole club rather than one team? Say so when you get in touch — rollout across age groups is a different conversation, and it is one worth having early.
Straight answers
The questions coaches actually ask.
- Does the AI write the plan for me?
- It writes the draft. You review it, request a new version if needed, and approve the version you want — nothing reaches a family until you do. You can re-generate a draft up to three times, then export or share the approved plan.
- Do players need an account?
- No. They tap a secure link, enter a short PIN, and answer on their phone. Nothing to download and no password to forget.
- What if a player writes something concerning?
- You see their answers in full, exactly as written, as part of the review step. The product never hides player responses from the coach or decides on its own what matters.
- What will it cost later?
- Not decided yet, and that is deliberate — pilot feedback shapes it. Pilot coaches will get plenty of notice before anything changes.
Give every player a plan your club can stand behind.
Tell us the age group you coach and when you want to run the cycle. A person reads every request.
Goes to a real inboxNo card, no auto-signup