Service · Recommendation Engines

Turn an expert bottleneck into a self-serve product

A deterministic engine gets the numbers right, an AI varies the plan, and the expert reviews before it reaches the customer.

Precision Physiques — live online coaching platform
Precision Physiques — live online coaching platform
Built · coach-exercised

Precision Physiques is built on this — deployed, coach-exercised, pre-first-client.

A Mifflin-St Jeor macro engine computes each client's numbers deterministically. Gemini varies the five-day meal plan around those numbers. The coach reviews and approves every plan before the client sees it, delivered as a branded PDF.

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plans generated
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synthetic test profiles

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How it's built

Four parts, one guarantee: the targets are never left to the model

  1. Engine

    Deterministic core

    The maths that must be right — every time — runs in ordinary code, not a model call.

  2. Variation

    AI-generated plan

    The model varies the output within that guaranteed frame, with a deterministic fallback if it fails.

  3. Sign-off

    Expert approves

    The qualified person reviews before the customer ever sees it — always in the loop.

  4. Delivery

    Async + branded PDF

    Generation runs as a background job, not a spinner, and lands as a document the customer keeps.

Beyond fitness coaching

Any expert bottleneck with a computable core fits this pattern

Financial advisers

Risk-profile intake → deterministic allocation model → adviser-reviewed recommendation, instead of a manual spreadsheet per client.

Trade specifiers & estimators

Job inputs → a rules engine sizes and prices the spec, an expert signs off before it goes to the customer.

Coaches & consultants of any kind

Anywhere a qualified person currently hand-builds a personalised output, this pattern turns it into software with the person still on the sign-off.

Questions
Does the AI just make things up?

No. A deterministic engine computes the numbers that matter (the ones that must be right every time); the AI varies the food and portions inside a frame the engine checks, and it has a deterministic fallback if it fails.

Where does the expert fit in?

In the loop, not replaced. The system drafts; the qualified person reviews and approves before the customer sees it — the pattern proven at Precision Physiques.

What if generation is slow?

It runs as an async job — the customer isn't stuck on a spinner waiting on a model call. This replaced a ~58-second synchronous wait in the live build.

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