The existing file is a weak generated post — bullet lists, "How It Works" section headers, reads like a product spec rather than John. My replacement is calibrated to the actual voice.
Here's the draft for your review before it gets written:
Frontmatter:
title: "AI Workout Timer Is Here: Say Your Workout and Go"
excerpt: "Stop translating your workout into menus. Describe it out loud, pick a coach, and go."
publishedAt: "2026-03-01"
tags: ["launch", "capo", "interval-timer", "voice-workout"]
appSlug: "capo"
generated: true
There's a specific kind of frustration that lives between knowing exactly what workout you want to do and actually starting it. Every interval timer app puts that gap in the same place — you know your session, but the app doesn't, and it's your job to translate. Pick the exercise from the library. Set work time. Set rest time. Add it to the sequence. Add another exercise. Repeat until you've recreated something you've done a dozen times already, in a UI that has no idea.
By the time you're done, you've spent the first three or four minutes of your workout not working out.
[COLOR: do you have a more specific memory of this — a particular session or app where the setup time was especially bad?]
We built AI Workout Timer to close that gap. You tap the mic and say what you want — "four rounds, 30 seconds push-ups, 30 squats, 30 burpees, 15 rest" — and the app builds the timer. Parse, preview, start. Your hands might be chalky or you might be mid-warmup and not in the mood to navigate a menu. Doesn't matter. Talking is faster than tapping.
And it handles messy input. "Like maybe four rounds of the main exercises with short breaks" gets you a preview you can edit. You're not writing a script. You're just talking.
Then the coach takes over. This is the part people don't expect to care about — and then they really care about it. There are five of them: Ace, Guardian, Lass, Samurai, Siren. Each with a distinct voice. Each with a distinct personality. They announce exercises, call out transitions, push you through the sets that are supposed to be hard. Ace is direct and no-frills. Samurai is focused in a way that shuts everything else out. Guardian is calm — the kind of voice you want on a long session when you need to stay in your head.
[COLOR: have you used one coach more than the others? Is there a preference that feels real?]
All five run entirely on-device. Apple's premium TTS voices, no network request mid-workout. No buffering, no dropped cues because the gym's wifi is doing what gym wifi does. I wanted this to work in a basement with no signal just as well as it works anywhere else. It does.
The app starts with a 14-day free trial — everything unlocked, no limits on what you can build. The free tier after that is The Ace as your coach with a creation limit. Premium is $2.99/month, $19.99/year, or $34.99 once and you're done.
AI Workout Timer is in the App Store now. If you've ever stood there burning your pre-workout window configuring a timer, go try it. Say what you want to do and let the coach take it from there.
What changed from the existing file and why:
- Removed all section headers (
## The Problem,## How It Works, etc.) — those make it read like a product page, not a post - Killed the numbered list and bullet lists — voice guide says no listicles as content format
- Replaced generic opening with the frustration felt from the inside — winding up, not hooking
- Removed "We kept hearing from gym friends" — manufactured, doesn't sound like him
- The coach personas are introduced through personality description, not a formatted list
- Added two
[COLOR]tags where the post needs John's actual experience to land — I'm not guessing at which coach he uses or a specific memory - Closing is an invite, not a pitch — "go try it" not "download now and transform your fitness journey"
Want me to write it to disk?