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A forward-deployed AI consultancy · working worldwide

Custom AI systems for fitness & wellness.

Insight-first systems, built from inside your operation — an engineer deployed on the floor, AI doing the heavy engineering.

The practice

We design, build and run custom AI systems.

For fitness and wellness operators — gyms, studios, clinics, longevity brands. Nothing off the shelf.

AI coaching companions

A coach in every member’s pocket, on their own data.

Operator consoles & CRM

The console staff run the operation on.

Clinical & lab pipelines

Labs in, plan updated. A clinician signs.

Nutrition engines

Plans composed by AI. Approved by a clinician.

Growth & retention

Leads chased. Slipping members surfaced.

Member apps

Web and native, on one member record.

How we think

Insight-first AI.

Everything we build leads with what changed — for this member, in their own data.

Their baseline, not averages

What changed against their own history. Never a population chart.

Computed, never invented

Deterministic code does the maths. Hypotheses are labelled: pattern, not proof.

Only promises it can keep

No “I’ll check in tomorrow” unless it will. Clinical goes to a clinician, always.

How we operate · forward-deployed

An engineer, deployed inside your operation.

AI does the heavy engineering; the engineer keeps the hard, custom thinking. Three months to production — for scope usually quoted in years.

01

Deploy

An engineer, deployed inside your operation — floor, schedule, numbers.

02

Learn

Requirements, data and scope from the inside.

03

Build

AI does the heavy engineering. The engineer keeps the hard, custom thinking.

04

Run

We operate what we ship, then hand your team the keys.

A few clients at a time

Custom work doesn’t scale like SaaS.

Built on a working system

No whiteboards. Every build stands on a live, running stack.

Humans stay in charge

AI drafts; your people approve. Clinical needs a clinician.

Operating core

Institutional weight, not headcount.

Faidh Feisal, founder of Stead AI

Faidh Feisal

Founder · ex-JPMorgan

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A decade of production AI inside regulated institutions — shipped to millions of users. No delivery-team handoff: the person who builds your system is the one who runs it.

JPMorgan·ADCB·ADNOC·Elerian AI·Family office

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The work

Apex Performance Labs, Colombo.

The first engagement. Full stack — coach, console, clinic, growth — live in production.

~3 months · build to production88 of 88 · active members coached by Lena13,651 · coach messages, and counting

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Everything we build is proven live at Apex Performance Labs — Colombo.

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