The company
A small company that would rather say "we cannot know that".
AI GOLF COACH PTY LTD is registered in New South Wales. It is building one thing, and this page explains the reasoning behind the way that thing reports what it found.
Why the honesty is the product
The easy version of this application already exists.
You can build a swing analyser in a few weeks that prints a club head speed, a swing plane in degrees and a tidy score out of a hundred, from a single clip filmed at any angle. Every one of those numbers can be produced. None of them can be justified. The gap between producing a number and justifying it is where this company intends to live.
Club golfers are the people most exposed to that gap. Somebody with access to a launch monitor can check a claim in a minute. Somebody filming on a phone in a net in the garage has no way to know that the swing plane figure moved four degrees because they nudged the tripod, not because they changed anything. Confident software teaches that person the wrong lesson and takes a subscription fee for it.
What that costs us
A screen with empty fields on it looks worse than a screen full of figures. A confidence band looks like hedging. Refusing to print a speed means losing the comparison with competitors who do print one, and losing it on the exact metric most people look for first. We have decided that is the trade, and writing it on a public page before launch is how we stop ourselves quietly reversing it.
How you would catch us
The table on the home page names every signal and states its confidence. If the shipped application ever shows a figure that table calls impossible, or drops a confidence band that used to be there, the table and the application disagree and you can say so in public. That is the point of publishing it early.
How it is being built
Decisions already fixed.
Each of these was settled while the software was still being designed, and put in public here so that reversing one quietly is not available to us.
| Decision | Reason |
|---|---|
| Analysis runs on the device by default | Video of a person should not travel unless travelling is the only way to answer the question |
| Faces are blurred on the device before any upload is offered | The person filming is often not the only person in the frame |
| Uploading is a per recording choice | A background sync is a decision made once and forgotten, which is not consent |
| Training on your video needs separate consent | Consent to be analysed is not consent to be learned from |
| No account is required to analyse a swing on your own phone | An email address is not needed to run a model locally, so it will not be demanded |
| Every derived angle carries a confidence band | A number with no error attached is not a measurement |
| Impossible fields stay empty and say why | An empty field with an explanation is more useful than a plausible fabrication |
| No advertising, anywhere, ever | Advertising in an application holding video of your body creates an incentive we do not want to have |
Illustrative, not shipped
The figures and screens described anywhere on this site are how the application is being designed to behave, rather than screenshots of a finished build. Where anything on this site turns out to be wrong once the first build lands, this site changes.
Boundaries
What this company will not become.
Not a health service
Golf swing software sits one careless sentence away from health advice. A phrase such as "this pattern causes lower back pain" is a clinical claim, and this company is not qualified to make one. AI Golf Coach does not diagnose, treat, prevent or manage any injury or condition, does not infer that you are injured, and will point you at a qualified practitioner rather than a drill whenever pain is mentioned.
Not a data business
There is an obvious second business in a corpus of swing videos, and we are not building it. No video is sold, no dataset is licensed, and no third party is given access to recordings. The revenue model is people paying for the application, which keeps the incentives pointed the same way as yours.
Not a coach
A camera and a model can describe what a body did. Deciding what to change about it, in what order, for a particular person, is coaching, and a good coach beats this application at that comfortably. The intended use is between lessons, to see whether the thing your coach asked for actually happened.
The register
The verifiable part.
- Registered name
- AI GOLF COACH PTY LTD
- ACN
- 698 412 467
- ABN
- 57 698 412 467
- Company type
- Proprietary company limited by shares, incorporated in Australia
- Based
- New South Wales
- GST
- Not registered
- Where to check
- The ABN, its standing and the GST answer sit at abr.business.gov.au, free and without an account. The ACN is on ASIC's company register
- Serving documents
- ASIC holds a registered office against our ACN, and formal service belongs there. Printing some other address on a web page would only mislead you about which one actually works
- Contact
- [email protected], and there is no second route