For clubs
Run the squad. Keep the safeguarding.
Recov gives a coach one view of a squad's training and recovery, junior or senior, gives a welfare officer a role that carries no routine data access at all, and charges for neither. The seat is the athlete. Everything else about running the club is free.
Safeguarding is never billable
Only an athlete consumes a paid seat. Coaches, guardians, welfare officers and deputy welfare officers are free. That is not a discount applied by hand, and not a line on a price list that a future pricing change could quietly remove.
The reason is simple. A club that has to weigh the cost of a second welfare contact against the cost of another athlete is being asked the wrong question. So we do not ask it.
For what a seat costs and how clubs are onboarded, see pricing and talk to us — we set clubs up directly rather than through a self-serve signup.
Your club keeps the case. Recov never holds one.
Recov does not hold a safeguarding case. There is no case file, no investigation workflow, no place to write up a conversation with a child. That belongs in your club's own safeguarding system, under your own policy and your governing body's, and moving it into a training app would make it worse, not better.
What Recov is designed to hold is narrower and specific: the record that a signal was raised, who it was delivered to, and when it was acknowledged. Nothing in Recov is quietly edited: a correction adds to the record rather than replacing it.
What is not switched on
Recov does not currently detect anything. No alert is generated today, so Recov is not monitoring your athletes.
There is also no way to raise a concern inside Recov. A coach, a parent or a child who is worried uses your club's existing safeguarding route. Do not tell anyone the app is that route.
What each role can see
Coach
For the squads they actually coach: training results and progress against GMT, effort ratings, the soreness log, recovery markers, injury reports, and the fuelling verdict with its carbohydrate, protein and fat figures.
Never: a meal photograph, what the child typed about their food, the journal, or body measurements. Coaching one squad grants nothing about another.
Welfare officer and deputy
Assigned by a club admin, scoped to the club, and every change to the role is recorded. The officer sees welfare alerts — nothing else. No training, no journal, no fuelling, no recovery.
There is no way for an officer to ask Recov about a named child. "No routine data access" is how the role is built, not a rule in a handbook.
Club admin
Membership, squads, roles and invitations. An admin can decide who a welfare officer is; an admin cannot read an athlete's training, wellbeing, fuelling or welfare data. Administering the club and seeing into it are separate powers.
Guardian
Free, and linked to their own child only. They see training results, injury reports, the fuelling verdict and body measurements. They do not see the soreness log, recovery markers, meal photos or the journal — less of the day-to-day than you do, deliberately.
The full matrix, category by category.
Before you type into a coach brief
Recov can draft a training programme. When it does, it sends the squad's specialty, age band, goals and description, your brief, the event names and dates, the training pattern, any previous plan and your comments to Anthropic. No identifiers go with it.
But your brief is sent exactly as you wrote it. If you type a child's name into it, the name is transmitted. So: write about the squad, the seat, the session or the group — never the child.
The same applies to plan import. A photograph of a whiteboard is sent to Anthropic to be read, and it is not identity-stripped. If the whiteboard names individual rowers with injury notes beside them, that is what gets sent. Location and camera metadata are removed from images before upload; the content of the image is not.
What it asks of the club
- You supply guardian email addresses. A child never types their parent's address in. That link comes from the club's records.
- Consent for a minor can only be granted by a linked guardian, and every switch starts off. Either the guardian or the athlete can withdraw, at any age. If a date of birth is missing or unreadable, a grant is refused rather than assumed.
- Injury reporting cannot be disabled. A squad's feature profile decides what else is offered; it does not decide whether an athlete can report an injury.
- The last guardian of a child cannot be unlinked. The request is refused.
- At 18, guardian access ends on the day, with no taper. The adult athlete stays in the parent's list with nothing to open.
The club's own duties do not move
Recov is a tool your club uses. It does not become your safeguarding lead, it does not discharge your policy, and it is not a reporting route. If a child is at immediate risk, that is a 999 call and your local children's services — see safeguarding contacts.