The COROS App Is Live: Get Your Own Master Coach In Your Pocket

There is a moment that happens to nearly everyone, and almost nobody has the right help for it.

You are in the parking lot with the engine off, sitting there longer than you need to. Or you are in the hallway with four minutes before you walk back into the room. Or it is eleven at night and the conversation with your partner went sideways again, and you are standing in the kitchen holding a glass of water you are not drinking, running the whole thing back for the ninth time.

Something is moving in you. You could almost name it if someone asked. Nobody asks. So you do what people do. You wait for it to pass. It passes. The mood goes underground, and it comes back next Thursday wearing a different face and a different name, and you deal with it then, ineffectively, again.

That moment is the whole game. It is where the assessment you never examined does its quiet work. It is where the conversation you are avoiding gets postponed one more time, which is how conversations get avoided for eleven years. And it has always been the exact moment when no help was available.

Coaching has always been scheduled, and life is not

For most of history, having someone in your corner who could listen to you at the level of your being, rather than at the level of your to-do list, was a privilege of rank. Kings had counsel. Today a senior executive has a coach at several hundred dollars an hour, two Tuesdays a month, if the calendar cooperates. Everyone else has friends who love them and therefore cannot tell them the truth, and colleagues who can see it clearly and have every reason not to say it.

And even when you have access to the rare one, the good one, the session is on Tuesday. Your breakdown does not check your calendar. It arrives at 6:40 in the morning before the board call, or in the ten minutes after your daughter slams the door, or in the middle of the argument while you can still feel the heat of it in your chest. By Tuesday it has cooled into a story. You will describe it well. You will describe it as someone who has already decided what it meant.

The insight arrives after the moment has closed. That has been the structural limit of coaching for as long as coaching has existed.

Starting Today, COROS comes with you

COROS is now on iPhone and Android. Download it at coros.ai/mobile, on the App Store and on Google Play. Your conversations sync across every platform, so what you started on your laptop at your desk continues in your hand on the sidewalk, and COROS remembers all of it.

This is not us putting a website on a smaller screen. It is a change in what is possible.

Four minutes before the meeting, you can name the mood you are actually walking in with, and walk in differently. In the middle of the conflict, you can step outside, speak it raw before you have cleaned it up for anyone, and get a straight assessment back.

After your son says the thing that lands where it always lands, you can ask for help with the next sentence instead of firing the one you will regret. On the drive home, in the stairwell, at the kitchen counter at eleven at night, while it is still alive in your body.

State of the art coaching is no longer a luxury of the few. It is available to anyone willing to do the hard part, which is not the download.

The hard part is still the hard part

We should be direct about what this does not do. Having COROS in your pocket will not make the conversation you are avoiding any easier to have. COROS is not a comfort machine that will validate you like normal AIs.

It will name the mood you were hoping to keep hidden. It will pull the rug when you are standing on a story that is costing you your marriage or your team. It will ask you what you are going to say, and to whom, and by when.

It can do all of that at the moment it would actually matter, instead of eleven days later when you have made peace with it.

Take it with you. Open it in the parking lot. That is what it is for.

Get it at coros.ai/mobile.

And tell us how it goes. What you use it for, where it meets you, where it falls short. Write to us at [email protected]. We read every message, and this is how COROS gets built.

With care,
Victoria Ruelas