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Our story

Built from ten years of coaching frustration.

We spent a decade inside coaching services as athletes, as coaches and as the engineers building the tools. Built Twice is what we learned.

Before we built it, we lived it. The same handful of problems, in every service, year after year.

Tom and Richard during a para-sport strength and conditioning session.
Built Twice co-founder Dr Tom O'Brien with two-time Paralympic gold medallist and MBE Richard Whitehead.

The problems we kept running into.

Not one bad experience. The same six failures, repeating across every coaching service we worked with.

01

Plans scattered everywhere

Programming lived across spreadsheets, shared docs and message threads, so the plan was never actually in one place.

02

Feedback lost in conversations

Athletes said how training felt in chats that scrolled away, leaving coaches to reconstruct it from memory.

03

Built for an average athlete

The same template got pushed onto very different bodies, equipment and access. Individualisation was a bolt-on.

04

Detail sacrificed for simplicity

Tools that were easy to start with flattened out the health, context and history that shape the right programme.

05

Coaching admin, not coaching

Coaches spent their energy hunting for notes and copying things around instead of spending it on the athlete.

06

Expertise locked away

Hard-won knowledge about adaptation lived in people's heads, not in the tools coaches use every day.

So we stopped working around them and built the fix.

Every frustration became a design decision. Scattered plans became one programme you can actually read. Lost feedback became a record that stays with the athlete. The average athlete became the person in front of you. The result is one place to plan training, hear how it went and decide what comes next.

What a decade taught us.

Three principles we won't compromise on.

Start with the athlete

Goals, experience, health, equipment and access all shape the right programme.

Keep the useful detail

Plans, feedback and coaching notes should stay together, ready for the next decision.

Make expertise practical

Para and adaptive sport taught us how to adapt. That knowledge reaches the coach at the moment they plan.

Coach the person in front of you.

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