Start with Claude + Strava

Set up your coach. Build the plan together.

Connect the AI you already use, give it the context behind your training, and work together from your goal through to a detailed first week in Boulie.

About 10 minutes to connect Your first coaching conversation can be as thorough as you want.
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Already chatting with your AI? Open the agent-ready guide.

The whole setup in five steps

Claude + Strava is the smoothest path today. Strava is recommended rather than required, and you can use another AI client that supports remote MCP.

  1. Prepare Boulie

    Choose cycling, running, or both; add your weekly availability, recurring workouts, training-hours range, and current training anchors.

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  2. Connect your AI

    Add Boulie as a custom MCP connection and authorise it with the email you use in the app.

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  3. Connect your history

    Connect Strava so your coach can understand what you have actually been riding or running.

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  4. Build the foundation

    Let your coach understand your context, review recent training, establish your goal, and shape the broader plan.

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  5. Plan this week

    Agree the current week in detail, let your coach save it, then open Boulie to inspect what you built together.

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Prepare Boulie

Give your coach the durable facts it should not have to rediscover in every conversation.

  1. Create your Boulie account

    Download Boulie from the App Store. Remember the email you use; you will need it when you connect your AI.

  2. Open Coach and complete Coaching preferences

    Add what you know now. You can refine it later:

    • Your sports: cycling, running, or both.
    • Your training week: hours available on each day, recurring workouts, and your preferred weekly training-hours range.
    • Your training anchors: cycling FTP, running threshold pace, and maximum heart rate, if known.

Connect your AI to Boulie

Claude is the easiest place to begin today. Add the connection from Claude in a web browser or the desktop app; once connected, it is available on mobile too.

  1. Open Claude’s connector settings

    In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector.

  2. Add the Boulie connection

    Paste this address exactly:

    https://mcp.boulie.ai/mcp
  3. Sign in and approve access

    Use the same email as your Boulie account, enter the one-time code, and follow the authorisation screen.

You stay in control.

Your AI can read the coaching context held in Boulie and save changes you agree together. Plan changes require your explicit confirmation.

Using ChatGPT, Gemini Spark, OpenClaw, or another AI?

Add the same Boulie address through your client’s custom connector, connected app, or remote MCP settings. The exact menus and availability vary as these products evolve.

If you are already talking to that AI, send it the agent-ready setup guide and let it adapt the instructions to the client you chose.

Connect your training history Recommended

Claude’s native Strava connection lets your coach ground the conversation in what you have actually been doing. Boulie remains the home of the plan.

  1. Find Strava in Claude’s connector directory

    Stay in Settings and Connectors, find Strava, and choose Connect. Availability may depend on your Strava account.

  2. Approve Strava access

    Sign in to Strava and follow its permission screen. Your usual activity-recording workflow does not change.

No Strava connection? You can still get started. Your coach can ask about recent training in conversation.

Build the coaching foundation

The strongest first conversation gives your coach the full picture before it fills the calendar.

  1. Your Boulie contextSports, daily availability, recurring workouts, weekly training range, and useful anchors.
  2. Recent trainingStrava shows the work you have actually been doing and your current rhythm.
  3. Your goalAgree what you are preparing for and save it as the shared destination.
  4. The broader planShape how the coming weeks and blocks build toward that goal.
  5. This weekTurn the current stage into detailed sessions you can follow in Boulie.
This is a recommended path, not a gate.

You can pause, skip a stage, or come back later. Completing the foundation early gives your coach better context for every decision that follows.

First coaching conversation
Let’s set up my coaching properly. Start by reading my Boulie coaching context, then review my recent Strava training if it’s available. Help me clarify and save the goal I’m working toward, agree on the broader plan for getting there, and then plan the current week in detail. Take it conversationally and save only what we agree.

Plan this week and open Boulie

Your coach should turn the agreed direction into complete sessions for the current week, then save the result to Boulie.

  1. Review the proposed week

    Discuss how the sessions fit your availability, recurring training, current load, and goal. Change anything that does not feel workable.

  2. Confirm what you want saved

    Once the goal, broader direction, and week are right, explicitly confirm the changes with your coach.

  3. Open Boulie

    Your plan will be on the calendar. Tap a day to see the workout structure, execution detail, and targets your coach saved.

You now have a shared coaching foundation.

Boulie holds the agreed goal and plan. Return to your AI when training or life changes, after sessions you want reviewed, and when it is time to shape the next week.

Optional: make it a Claude Project

A dedicated Project can keep your preferred coaching approach consistent while Boulie remains the source of truth for the plan.

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Use my Boulie connector as the canonical source for my goal and training plan.

At the start of a planning conversation, read my Boulie coaching context. Review recent training from Strava when it is useful and available. If Boulie is missing my sport, daily availability, recurring workouts, weekly training range, FTP, threshold pace, or max heart rate, ask me about it and suggest that I add the relevant details to Coaching preferences in Boulie.

Help me agree the goal and broader plan before turning the current stage into detailed training. Discuss a concise proposal before changing anything, and save only what I explicitly confirm.

If a Boulie write reports a conflict or a result differs materially from what we discussed, re-read the affected plan and talk through the difference before trying again. After a successful change, tell me what Boulie actually saved.

The weekly rhythm

A couple of useful coaching conversations each week is usually enough.

  1. TalkYour AI

    Share how training felt, review what changed, and agree what comes next.

  2. TrainBoulie

    Use today’s workout and the calendar as the plan you agreed together.

  3. RecordStrava

    Record activities as usual so your coach can use the evidence when reviewing and adapting.

If something doesn’t look right

Most problems are fixed by checking the connection, refreshing the conversation, or using the same Boulie email.

Boulie tools do not appear in my AI

Make sure Boulie is switched on for the current conversation and that the connection was added from a client surface that supports custom remote MCP.

The tools look missing or out of date

Refresh the client’s tool list or reconnect Boulie, then start a fresh conversation. Boulie occasionally improves its coaching tools, while long-running chats may retain older descriptions.

Connector sign-in fails

Remove the connection and add it again using the same email as your Boulie account.

A saved change is not showing in Boulie

Pull down to refresh. If it still does not appear, close and reopen the app, then ask your coach what Boulie saved.

My coaching conversation has become very long

Start a fresh conversation and ask your coach to read your Boulie context. Your committed goal, plan, and coaching record live in Boulie rather than depending on one chat thread.

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