Setting up your coach
The first time you sign in, flourish walks you through a short setup so your coach knows who you are and what you want to work on. It takes a few minutes.
A quick tour
Four short pages show what your coach does: talk through your goals, build a plan around your life, make your next step clear, and learn your patterns over time. Tap Next, then Get started.
Agree to AI processing
Your coach is powered by AI, so we need your permission to share the information you give us with our trusted AI providers. Tap Accept & Continue to go on.
This step is required to use flourish. Read more in How your coach uses AI.
Chat with your coach
Your coach asks a few questions in a chat, one at a time:
- What should I call you?
- How do you identify, and how old are you?
- Which areas do you want to focus on? (Physical health and fitness, mental health and wellbeing, financial wellbeing, career and education, life meaning and purpose, social life and relationships)
- In your own words, what do you want to change? (optional, tap Skip)
- What have you struggled with in the past?
- How many days a week can you realistically give it?
- When do you prefer to speak to your coach?
- Anything to plan around, such as an injury, ADHD, a busy schedule or coming back after a break?
- How much should your coach stay on you?
- What time works best?
- Where should your coach reach you: the flourish app, WhatsApp or iMessage (iPhone only)?
You’ll see a summary of your answers. Tap Continue.
Your answer to “How much should I stay on you?” sets your starting notification preferences. You can change them at any time.
Sync your data
Connect Apple Health (iPhone), Health Connect (Android) or a wearable such as Garmin, Oura, WHOOP or Strava. Your coach uses this to see what you’ve actually done and adjust your plan. Tap Maybe later to skip this step. You can connect later in Integrations.
Your plan
If you connected data, flourish takes a moment to analyse it. You’ll then see how your recent activity compares with your goal, and your coach builds your first plan.
Commit to it
You’ll be asked to commit to your goal. There’s a space to sign, but your signature isn’t recorded.
Start your free trial
You’ll see how the free trial works, then the subscription options. You can close this screen and keep going. See Subscriptions and free trial.
If you continue, you’ll be asked to turn on notifications so we can remind you before your trial ends. Tap Enable reminders, or Not now.
Chat or voice
Choose how to start talking to your coach: Chat (typing) or Voice (a spoken conversation). If you pick Voice, choose how your coach sounds first. You can change both later in Coach settings.
Setup is now complete and your first conversation with your coach opens.
If you came to flourish through a friend’s invite link, some of these steps are skipped and your free access is applied automatically. See Invite links.
If you bought flourish on our website
If you took our online quiz and subscribed on the web, setup is shorter. Your answers are already with your coach, so you only confirm your name and choose where to start. Sign up in the app with the same email you paid with, so we can link your subscription. See Subscribed on the web.