Steps = movement.
Roll, paddle, or lift instead of walk, and a hard day can read as inactive.
For the rest of us
Not everyone's training for a marathon. Your app should know that.
Diorama starts useful on day one, learns how your body and life work from a normal conversation, and remembers what you choose to teach it. No disability questionnaire. No twenty-question intake.
Starts useful. Learns quietly. Doesn't forget.
Typical assumption
0 steps
Inactive day
Diorama
1,240 pushes
Wheelchair walk · 42 active min
Example shown for illustration. Actual insights vary based on your activity and preferences.
The quiet assumption
Fitness tech assumes you're someone you're not.
Most fitness apps quietly assume steps equal movement, heart rate equals effort, and everyone is working toward a run, ride, or swim. For a lot of people that is simply wrong, and being told you were "inactive" on a day you worked hard is discouraging enough to make you quit. Capability-aware fitness removes that friction: your effort is measured on your terms, your activities keep their real identity, and the coach never forgets what you have told it about yourself.
Heart rate = effort.
Medication or an arrhythmia can make a demanding workout look easy to an app.
Fitness = endurance.
Run, ride, and swim get first-class treatment. Everything else becomes “Other.”
“Being told you were inactive on a day you worked hard is discouraging enough to make you quit.”
How it works
Tell it once. It remembers everywhere.
Tell Ray something durable about how your fitness works — for example, "I use a wheelchair," "no floor work for me," or "my heart rate reads low because of my medication" — and Diorama saves it as part of your profile. From then on it shapes your daily movement view, your workout analysis, your weekly review, your readiness, and every coaching reply, not just the chat where you said it. Your workouts keep their real Apple Health type and icon (wheelchair walk, paddle sports, hiking) instead of being flattened to "Other," and movement can be measured in pushes, wheelchair distance, active minutes, or duration rather than assuming steps. You can also give a workout your own label, like "bird watching," and it sticks on top of the real activity type. You can review everything Diorama remembers about you, edit it, or remove it at any time.
You mention something real.
Tell Ray “I use a wheelchair,” “no floor work for me,” or “my heart rate runs low on my medication.” No intake form required.
Diorama makes it durable.
It becomes a typed profile fact that lives on your device and remains yours to review, edit, or remove.
It shapes what comes next.
Daily movement, workout analysis, readiness, weekly review, and coaching replies can all respect what you taught it.
What changes
What that actually looks like.
Instead of
Your activity flattened to “Other”
Diorama
Keeps its real Apple Health type, name, and icon—wheelchair walk, paddle sports, hiking.
Instead of
0 steps treated as an inactive day
Diorama
Uses pushes, wheelchair distance, active minutes, or duration when those metrics apply.
Instead of
“Low effort” because heart rate stayed low
Diorama
Reads effort using the context and signals that apply after you explain what matters.
Instead of
A personal outing renamed by the app
Diorama
Keeps your label, such as “bird watching,” on top of the real activity type.
Instead of
A coach that forgets last week
Diorama
Carries durable context into every coaching request instead of leaving it in one chat.
Instead of
Sensitive context becoming an ad profile
Diorama
Stores profile facts locally and keeps their content out of routine behavioral analytics.
Who it is for
More people than fitness apps admit.
These fictional profiles illustrate everyday situations—not customer testimonials.
Sam
Wheelchair user and bird-watcher
A hard session can count as hard without turning steps into a universal score.
Dana
Returning after time away
Consistency and perceived effort can matter when medication changes heart-rate response.
Marcus
Lifter and hiker
Strength and trails stay first-class instead of becoming a nudge toward a running plan.
Priya
Busy parent with gentle goals
Unplanned movement counts, and the weekly review treats adherence as context—not a grade.
Private by design
It learns about you without selling you out.
Profile facts are typed and stored on your device. Relevant context can accompany a Ray request when you use AI, while sensitive profile content stays out of routine behavioral analytics.
Questions
Capability-aware fitness, plainly.
Is this an accessibility or disability mode?
No. It is an applicability system for anyone whose life does not fit the endurance-athlete mold. There is no special mode to turn on.
Do I have to fill out a health form?
No. Diorama starts with sensible defaults and learns from normal conversation, only when you choose to tell it something.
Will it assume things about my body?
No. Saying that you use a wheelchair can change language and movement metrics, but it does not imply anything about standing, transfers, or floor work. You teach each fact separately when it matters.
Where does my information go?
Profile facts are stored on your device. When you use Ray, relevant context accompanies that AI request so the answer can fit you. Profile-fact content and health values are not sent to routine behavioral analytics.
Does it write my workouts around my limitations?
Diorama never guesses. Telling it you use a wheelchair changes language and which metrics it shows, but it does not assume anything about standing, transfers, or floor work — each of those is something you would teach it separately if it matters to you. Today the strength around this is tracking and understanding your training; generated or prescribed workouts that automatically respect every stated constraint are still being developed and are not promised yet. Everything you teach it lives on your device and shapes your coaching without becoming an analytics data point.
Fitness that finally fits.
Starts useful. Learns quietly. Doesn't forget.