AI coach & API keys

Tempovi’s coaching is calculated on your iPhone. You don’t need AI for your daily plan. AI is an optional extra: you bring your own API key, and you pay the provider directly, usually a few cents a day or less.

What works without a key

• Today’s Wellness scores, readiness and Body Battery
• The Daily Coach session, Best time to run, and sending workouts to your watch
• The 7-Day Plan, periodization and season plan
• The coach’s strength week
• Routes (these use a separate, free routing key)
• Statistics, run detail, food logging by text and barcode, Biology and spreadsheet lab import

What a key adds

• Coach chat — ask anything about your training, recovery or a specific run (💬 on the home screen).
• Run review after every run.
• Coach’s notes on today’s plan, and suggested changes you can apply.
• The weekly coach report (every Monday).
• Food photo recognition, lab-report PDF import and lab marker analysis.

Add a key

1. Create an API key with your chosen provider, on their website. API keys & providers has step-by-step instructions for each one.
2. In Tempovi, go to Settings › AI Coach › AI Provider & Model.
3. Choose the provider: Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, GLM (Z.ai), Kimi (Moonshot) or Custom (OpenAI-compatible). For Custom, also enter the base URL.
4. Paste the key (Paste) and tap Verify & Save.

Tap Refresh models to load the provider’s current models, then pick one. Your key is stored in the iOS Keychain. Tap Remove Key to delete it.

Tip

For food photo recognition, choose a model that can read images. See which models read images.

The agentic coach

With Anthropic, DeepSeek, GLM or Kimi, the coach can look things up itself: individual runs, metric histories and your plan. It can also propose a change to today’s session. A proposal only takes effect when you tap Apply in the Daily Coach. You can switch this off with Agentic coach (tools) in the AI settings.

Coaching files and memory

Under Settings › AI Coach you’ll also find:

• Coaching Knowledge — editable files (for example your weekly schedule) that the coach follows.
• Coaching Memory — a short note the coach keeps about your goals and patterns. You can view it, save it or clear it.
• AI History Depth — how many weeks of runs are sent with each request. The default is 8 weeks.

What is sent to the AI provider

Only when you use an AI feature, Tempovi sends the provider the context that request needs:

• your training load (CTL, ATL, TSB) and recent runs
• recovery, HRV and sleep summaries
• your coaching files and memory note
• your approximate location name and local time
• the message, photo or document you chose

Requests go directly from your phone to the provider. Tempovi has no server in between. The provider’s own privacy policy applies. See our privacy policy for details.

Something not working?

• Add API key to unlock coaching on the home screen means no key has been saved yet.
• API key not working means the last request failed. Check the key, your provider’s credit balance and the selected model, then tap Verify & Save again. More fixes in Troubleshooting keys. If an AI request fails, the plan falls back to the standard calculation, so you’re never left without a session.