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  • SolutionsAI/ML Engineering, Mobile App Development, Backend Development, API Development, UX/UI Design, Cloud Infrastructure, QA & Testing
  • Technologies Google Gemini (Flash, Pro), Vertex AI, Google Cloud Platform, Firebase, Python, FastAPI, Expo, Apple HealthKit, Google Fit, React Native
  • Country Poland

Challenge

Our client — a US-based entrepreneur and fitness enthusiast — came to us with an ambitious vision: build an AI-powered app that gives every user the caliber of support previously available only to elite athletes with full coaching teams. Not another workout tracker, but a truly intelligent system that analyzes all aspects of health and fitness in one place and adapts the plan in real time.

The existing fitness app market is fragmented. Workout trackers don’t account for nutrition. Nutrition apps ignore sleep and recovery. No single product connects all the dots — and no product uses AI to actively adapt the user’s program based on what’s actually happening in their life.

Building this required solving several hard problems at once.

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Project Duration

9+ months (ongoing, pre-launch)

Team Composition

1 AI/ML Engineer

1 UX/UI Designer

3 QA Engineers

1 Backend Developer

3 Frontend Developers

Solutions

To build a fitness platform that truly adapts to each user, we designed the system around an AI coaching engine — not a static exercise database. The AI, powered by Google Gemini, acts as the central intelligence layer: it generates plans, interprets user data, and autonomously modifies programs week over week based on real performance, recovery, and lifestyle signals.

Key solutions

Progressive team scaling. We grew from a 4-person discovery team to a 10-person delivery squad without disrupting velocity, adapting team composition as the project evolved from proof-of-concept to full product.

Multi-agent AI architecture. We built a layered prompt system with a master persona prompt (elite fitness coach), per-feature prompts for each interaction point (meal logging, workout generation, weekly reviews), and a cross-validation layer where a secondary LLM checks outputs for safety before they reach the user.

Conversational-first UX. Instead of rigid forms, users interact with the AI through natural-language chat. They log meals by describing what they ate, reschedule workouts by saying “I’m sick today,” and adjust targets conversationally. The AI translates instructions into structured data changes in real time.

AI simulation and testing framework. We built a custom tool that generates synthetic user profiles, simulates 10 weeks of coaching interaction, then uses three competing LLMs (Claude, GPT, Gemini) to evaluate the AI coach’s decisions — surfacing errors and driving prompt improvements.

Nine-metric adaptive engine. The AI simultaneously analyzes workouts, nutrition, hydration, sleep, activity, blood biomarkers, supplements, medications, and body measurements to identify hidden barriers to progress and recalibrate the plan weekly.

Natural-language food logging. Users describe meals in plain language (“I ate borscht without meat”) and the AI estimates calories and macros — eliminating the friction of traditional database-search logging.

LLM-agnostic architecture. The system is designed so the underlying language model can be swapped via configuration, protecting against vendor lock-in and enabling rapid adoption of newer model versions.

Comprehensive compliance framework. A dedicated legal specialist created a 52-document register covering terms of use, health disclaimers, privacy policies, and AI-generated content liability across three phased launches.

The team composition for this
project features:

  • 1 Project Manager
  • 1 AI/ML Engineer
  • 1 Backend Developer
  • 3 Frontend Developers
  • 1 DevOps Engineer (part-time)
  • 1 UX/UI Designer
  • 1 Legal Specialist
  • 3 QA Engineers,
  • 1 Solution Architect (part-time)

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Results

As of pre-launch, we delivered a complete AI-powered fitness platform with the core product fully built and in the final QA and polish phase.

9 health metrics

analyzed by AI simultaneously — workouts, nutrition, hydration, sleep, activity, blood tests, supplements, medications, body measurements

1,500+ exercises

in the database with video demonstrations, powering AI-generated workout programs

52 legal documents

planned across three compliance phases, with pre-launch essentials completed

12 specialists

at peak team capacity, scaled progressively from an initial team of 4


45%

faster time to market

30%

lower infrastructure costs

4.8/5

average app store rating

What We Can Build for You

AI-native products from scratch.
We design systems where AI is the core — multi-agent architectures, prompt engineering, safety guardrails, automated quality testing across Gemini, GPT, Claude, and open-source models.
Full-cycle delivery.
Discovery, architecture, backend, mobile, QA, DevOps, compliance — one team, one backlog, no stitching vendors together.
Teams that scale with you.
This project grew from 4 to 10 people mid-flight without losing speed. We know how to ramp up without slowing down.
Regulated & health-adjacent domains.
If your AI gives advice that carries risk, we’ve built the safety nets — from legal doc registers to LLM output validation pipelines.

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