We built this because we needed it ourselves
We're professional trainers — ICAgile Authorized Instructors, Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) practitioners, and Diagnostic Sales trainers. Learning design is our daily work. And coaching skill development was our biggest bottleneck.
The problem we lived every day
We train people in coaching skills. We know the theory works. But between our training sessions, participants had nowhere to practice. They'd learn powerful questioning on Tuesday and forget it by Friday — not because the content was bad, but because there was no repetition, no feedback loop, no safe space to try and fail.
Finding practice partners is hard. Scheduling is harder. And getting honest, structured feedback on coaching competencies? Nearly impossible without paying for expensive mentor coaching hours.
So we built what we wished existed: a practice environment that's available anytime, gives instant competency feedback, and actually helps people improve between training sessions.
Built on learning science, not just technology
CoachTrainer.AI isn't a chatbot with a coaching skin. It's designed around how adults actually learn skills — grounded in Bloom's Taxonomy, experiential learning principles, and the TBR methodology we use daily.
Bloom's Taxonomy in action
Most coaching tools stop at “Remember” — they give you a list of questions to memorize. We take you all the way to “Create” — where you're building your own coaching approach through deliberate practice with immediate feedback.
Training from the Back of the Room
Sharon Bowman's TBR methodology teaches us that learners learn best when they're doing, not watching. CoachTrainer.AI is built on this principle:
Connections
Onboarding connects your existing experience to your learning goals
Concepts
Exercises teach the 'how' with good/bad examples before you practice
Concrete Practice
AI sessions are the practice — you do, not read about doing
Conclusions
ICF reports help you reflect on what you learned and plan next steps
Who we are
Agile Playground LLC
Delaware, USA
We're a team of professional trainers and learning designers who build tools for the problems we face in our own practice.
Built by trainers who understand the gap
We didn't build this from a pitch deck. We built it because our participants needed a way to practice between our sessions. Now yours can too.