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What does not work yet, told before it works.

Almost no laboratory publishes its drawer of experiments: the finished work is shown and the rest appears on announcement day. These are the six lines under construction with their state written beside them, because anyone about to pay for a session deserves to know what will be measured today and what is an intention.

Six open lines · their real state · what is not claimed

Open lines

Six fronts, each with the problem it tries to solve.

None of them started from a device. All of them started from a friction that showed up session after session, which is why each card names the problem first and the tool second.

01

An in-house analysis layer around GURU

Internal prototype

The problem: The simulator produces coordinates and captures in every session. Until now, comparing a rider’s session with the one they did a year ago meant opening two reports side by side.

The work: Python development to read, normalise and compare those outputs inside the athlete history, with the interpretation logic that is applied by hand today written out as explicit rules.

Where it stops: It is an internal support layer. It decides no adjustments, replaces no session, and has not yet been used to produce a single recommendation given to a rider.

02

Updating capture with a depth camera

Exploration

The problem: Motion capture takes setup time and stable lighting, which limits how many repetitions fit into a session.

The work: Tests with Orbbec depth cameras to speed up capture and increase the number of observed repetitions per session, checking their output against the current system.

Where it stops: It is in comparison testing. Until that comparison closes, session capture continues on the system already validated.

03

Faster instrumented functional assessment

Purchase under evaluation

The problem: Postural and joint-range assessment consumes a large share of the session, and part of that measurement depends on the hand taking it.

The work: Evaluating the purchase of a VALD HumanTrak system to standardise postural and movement tests, document them and compare them between sessions under the same protocol.

Where it stops: It is not in the laboratory yet. Strength, ranges and asymmetries are measured today with the VALD DynaMo Plus dynamometer, which is operational.

04

In-house classification and pattern models

Under validation

The problem: With enough cases, regularities appear that the eye does not catch: combinations of restriction, asymmetry and geometry that tend to end in the same complaint.

The work: Models trained on in-house data to classify and flag patterns worth a second look, together with language models for summarising long histories.

Where it stops: No model output reaches a report without someone reviewing it. A correlation found in in-house data is not a clinical claim and is not published as one.

05

Monitoring dashboards for the rider

Internal prototype

The problem: A six-month process produces repeated measurements the rider currently sees as separate reports, with no curve showing whether anything moved.

The work: Building an in-house view showing what changed, by how much and since when, in language that does not require reading a spreadsheet.

Where it stops: Not operational. It will be announced here and on the technology page when it works, not before.

06

Aerodynamic and resistance modelling

Exploration

The problem: Course simulation already projects power, pace and time, but treats rider drag as a reference value rather than something measured case by case.

The work: Work on drag coefficient, rolling resistance and frontal area so that a race projection starts from your actual position instead of an average.

Where it stops: A line of exploration. Projections delivered today state the assumptions they were built on.

What is not claimed

Four sentences you will not read on this site.

That an artificial intelligence performs the bike fit. What to move and why is decided by a person.

That any of these lines is finished. If it were, it would be described on the technology page and not on this one.

That a finding obtained from in-house data amounts to clinical evidence. These are internal observations, and they are named as such.

That automation shortens the session. For now the aim is to measure the same thing more times, not to measure more things worse.

Testing it properly

An in-house development validated only in-house is not validated.

Any of these lines improves when someone outside tries to break it. Of particular interest: testing instruments against a reference method, joint work with the manufacturers of the equipment already in the laboratory, and academic collaborations with access to anonymised in-house data.

If you work at a university, a manufacturer or another laboratory and want to propose a comparison, write. Whatever comes out will be published with its method in view, including the conditions under which it did not work.

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What will be measured in your session is on the other page.

The technology page describes the instruments in operation and which question each one answers. This page describes intentions, and the two should not be confused.

Frequently asked questions

Questions people ask us.

Can I book anything on this page?

No, and that is the difference between this page and the technology page. This is what is being built; that is what gets used in every session. When one of these lines becomes operational it will move pages, and what it does and does not do will be stated.

Why publish something that does not work yet?

Because the usual alternative is worse: presenting exploration as product and letting the client discover the limit during the session. Publishing the real state also lets a manufacturer, a university or a colleague see what is being worked on and propose testing it, which is how something actually gets validated.

Is HumanTrak in the laboratory already?

No. It is a purchase under evaluation. What is operational for strength, joint range and asymmetries is the VALD DynaMo Plus dynamometer, with measurements taken against a fixed anchor so they can be repeated and compared between sessions.

Do you work with manufacturers or universities?

There is a relationship with the manufacturers of the equipment in use and graduate university teaching, and that combination is the natural route for testing a development against someone outside. If joint work comes out of it, it will be published with its method in view, including the conditions under which it did not work.