One setup. 5 minutes.Claude remembers your squad every time after that.
Practical AI setups for head coaches and performance staff. Most take under 10 minutes to install.
Written by a performance analyst with five years inside professional rugby.
The Season Project — Claude as Your Tactical Second Brain
Every conversation you have with Claude starts from zero. You re-explain your squad, your principles, your fixture list, the kid you're trying to get into the starting XV. A Claude Project fixes that in 5 minutes. You upload your context once and every chat in that project remembers it. Tier: works on the Free plan (capped at 5 projects).
Go to claude.ai → sidebar → Projects → New Project. Name it 'Season 2025/26' or similar. In the Project Knowledge panel, upload: your playing principles document, your fixture list (PDF or pasted text), your squad list with positions and ages, and any season targets you've written down.
Free to read, free to do. The first prompt on every entry works without an account.
Eight layers. One system at a time.
Each layer solves one problem. Start with Capture and build down.
Everything here is scored by leverage — plainly, how many hours it gives you back each week.
Understand the full map →Three systems that feed each other — what you capture in the first becomes the deck in the third.
Connect Google Drive + Notion to Claude in 5 Minutes
Your fixture list is in Google Sheets. Your training plans are in Drive. Your player database is in Notion. Your GPS exports live in a folder you forget about. Claude can now read all four of them directly — no copy-paste, no exports — through one-click OAuth connectors. This is the setup that turns Claude from a chatbot into a workspace assistant. Tier: Free Claude plan with directory connectors works for the basics.
The Fireflies + Claude Meeting Brain (MCP Setup)
Coaches' meetings, staff briefings, player 1:1s — the volume of conversation in a coaching environment is enormous, and almost none of it gets re-listened to. Fireflies records and transcribes them. Claude, connected to Fireflies via MCP, lets you query everything in plain English: 'What did we say about [player] in the last three meetings?' Tier: Claude Pro ($20/mo) + Fireflies Free or Pro.
Fireflies → Claude → Gamma: Build the Monday Deck in 15 Minutes
Monday morning. The squad meeting is at 9 a.m. You need slides — match review, opposition preview, this week's training focus. You usually spend 45 minutes typing the same content into a deck that nobody scrolls back to. This workflow chains Fireflies, Claude, and Gamma into a single 15-minute pipeline. Tier: Claude Pro + Gamma Plus ($8/mo).
One system. Every Sunday.
Each issue installs one system from the map — what it upgrades, what load it removes, and where it sits in your match week. 700 words, free.
Subscribe →Written by a performance analyst who spent five years inside professional rugby, then moved into AI-enabled business and saw what sport was missing. The library is the gap, closed one system at a time.
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