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PaceAI: Personalised AI Fitness Coach

Health & Fitness · React Native · iOS & Android · AI-Powered

👥7-person dedicated team
🕑11 months
📱iOS & Android
⚙️React Native + Node.js + OpenAI API
PaceAI
Active user frequency
4.2/wk
30-day subscription retention
68%
Users feel coached (survey)
92%
Goal completion rate
81%
Overview

PaceAI is a personalised fitness coaching app using AI to generate adaptive workout and nutrition plans based on goals, equipment, and real-time progress. Nine Pixels built the complete product (mobile apps, backend, AI integration, and wearable connectivity) from spec.

The Challenge

AI fitness apps fail because recommendations feel generic. The brief: coaching that adjusts based on how you actually performed, not just what you planned. Integrating real-time wearable data (Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit) with AI plan generation had to respond instantly, not stall.

Our Solution

Custom AI coaching layer on OpenAI's API using structured context injection, sending full fitness profile, recent performance, and biometric signals with an engineered system prompt constraining responses to evidence-based recommendations. A rules-based progression engine underneath prevents unsafe recommendations. UI uses a coach conversation metaphor rather than dashboards. Wearable data via HealthKit and Google Health Connect.

Technology Stack
React NativeNode.jsOpenAI API (GPT-4o)HealthKit / Google Health ConnectStripeFirebasePostgreSQLRedisMixpanelAmplitude
Results
68%
30-day subscription retention
92%
Users feel coached (survey)
4.2/wk
Active user session frequency
81%
Goal completion rate
On-device
All AI processing, no cloud upload
12mo
Concept to App Store launch
Our retention is 2x the industry benchmark. The context injection approach Nine Pixels built is what makes the AI feel like it actually knows you.
Founder & CEO, PaceAI
Project Details
Client
Health Tech Startup, London
Duration
11 months
Team
7-person dedicated team
Platform
iOS & Android
Engine / Stack
React Native + Node.js + OpenAI API
Category
App Development
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