The state of data control in coaching software industry is shitty
Online coach here, started last year (currently ~10 active clients) so relatively newer than a lot of people in this community.
One thing that I noticed in my first year itself - the state of data control in coaching software industry is honestly shitty, and almost nobody talks about it.
For example, most platforms don't let you easily export your own clients, their programs and checkins from the platform. Anything beyond the basic data is "contact support" or just gone the day you cancel your subscription.
I come from an engineering background so it feels outright unfair to me that most platforms are using data lock in to retain their users. This is not a standard thing in most of other industries.
For example, if you google "kahunas data export", you'd see an ig post from their official page which says: "Okay, so there is no current way to export directly, BUT We can train our AI bot to do it in just a few minutes". Why tf do I need a separate bot to get my own data?
And there are paid fiverr job listings to help you transfer your data from one platform to other.
Whichever platform a coach picked first basically owns their coaching history forever. That does not feel right.