You can connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI assistant straight to your Planner.coach account. Ask it about your sessions, calendar, rosters and season plan in plain language, and have it build sessions and add events for you without leaving the chat you already use.
This is for coaches who already work in Claude or ChatGPT. If you'd rather plan inside Planner.coach, the built-in AI Coach does the same job and needs no setup.
It's available on every plan, including Free.
What the assistant can do
Once it's connected, you can ask things like:
- "What's on this week?" The assistant shows your calendar as a card, with RSVP counts on each game. Use the arrows on the card to move a week at a time.
- "Show me Tuesday's session." You get the session plan as a card: each block, its drill picture and its minutes. Open it full screen to read the block notes.
- "Plan a 60-minute U12 passing session for Thursday using my drills." The assistant searches your library, builds the plan and saves it once you agree.
- "Where are we in the season?" The card shows your season plan as a timeline, marks today, and lists the current phase's goals.
Cards appear in Claude (web, desktop and mobile) and in ChatGPT. Other assistants show the same information as text.
ChatGPT's deep research can read your library too, so you can ask it for a report across your sessions and drills.
The assistant works on your personal library and on the teams you belong to. Anything it creates follows your plan's normal limits, the same as if you'd made it yourself.
What it can't see
Your athletes' personal details are never shared. The assistant sees athlete names and summary numbers, but never dates of birth, contact details, medical notes or emergency contacts.
It also can't design drill diagrams, edit athlete records, or email athletes or guardians. Those stay inside the app.
Once your coaching data reaches the assistant, it's handled under that provider's own privacy policy (Anthropic's for Claude, OpenAI's for ChatGPT). Our Privacy Policy explains what a connected assistant can read and create for you.
Connecting Claude
- In Planner.coach, go to Settings → Connected apps and copy the Connection link.
- In Claude, open Customize → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
- Name it Planner.coach, paste the link and choose Add.
- Sign in to Planner.coach on the page that opens and choose Allow access.
- In a chat, turn Planner.coach on from the + menu.
On a Team or Enterprise plan, an Owner adds the connector once under Organization settings → Connectors, and each member then connects their own account.
Connecting ChatGPT
- Copy the Connection link from Settings → Connected apps.
- On chatgpt.com, open Plugins (chatgpt.com/plugins), choose +, then Add custom MCP server.
- Name it Planner.coach and paste the link as the Server URL. Choose OAuth for authentication, accept the warning and choose Create as a plugin.
- Install the plugin, sign in to Planner.coach and choose Allow access.
- Pick Planner.coach in a chat.
Custom MCP servers need a paid ChatGPT plan. On a Business or Enterprise workspace, an admin may need to allow them first.
Other assistants
Any assistant that supports remote MCP servers with OAuth sign-in can use the same link, including Cursor and VS Code. For Claude Code, the Other tab in Settings → Connected apps has a command you can copy and run.
What's MCP? You might see "MCP" or "remote MCP server" in your assistant's settings. It's the open standard that lets the two apps talk to each other. You don't need to know how it works to use it.
Ready-made prompts
Planner.coach adds four prompts to your assistant's prompt menu: Plan a session, My week ahead, Prepare for the next game and Where are we in the season? Pick one to start without typing the whole request.
Approving each change
When the assistant wants to create or change something, such as a calendar event or a session, your assistant asks you first. You check what it's about to do and approve it in the chat. Claude and ChatGPT both let you skip the question for a tool you trust ("Always allow"); you can turn that off again in their connector settings.
Managing and removing access
Every assistant you connect is listed under Settings → Connected apps, with the date you connected it. Choose Remove next to one to sign it out straight away. You can connect it again later.
Check the list now and then, and remove anything you no longer use.
Prefer to plan inside Planner.coach? The built-in AI Coach builds drills, sessions and lineups without any setup, and uses credits. A connected assistant doesn't use Planner.coach credits; it runs on your assistant's own plan.