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The Scientist's Notebook for Endurance Athletes.
Real physiological models on your phone. Gradescale runs the same analytics used by professional coaching staff — directly from your Strava data, on-device, with no black-box score names.
About Gradescale
Gradescale is a training analytics app for endurance athletes who want to understand what their data actually means. It fits a power-duration model to your activity history, tracks load balance using exponential moving averages, and surfaces aerobic decoupling metrics derived from heart rate vs. pace or power over time. The models run on-device after a one-time Strava sync — no cloud processing, no proprietary score names, no vendor lock-in.
The design principle is insight delivery over chart building. Most training apps show you the numbers; Gradescale tells you what they mean relative to your own baseline. Readiness scores, load balance trends, and power-duration curve shifts are all framed in plain language with the underlying math visible for athletes who want to dig in. Available on iOS, Android, and web.
Founder
Thomas Mortelmans
Thomas Mortelmans is a Belgian endurance athlete and software developer who built Gradescale to solve a problem he kept running into: the analytics tools worth using were either desktop-only or locked behind proprietary metrics that obscured more than they revealed. He trained and raced while building the app, running the models on his own data first. He also runs ESQ Coaching, an endurance coaching practice where the same physiological frameworks power athlete programming.
Product Screenshots
High-resolution screenshots available on request at press@gradescale.fit.
[SCREENSHOT: Dashboard — chronic/acute load chart + readiness score card]
[SCREENSHOT: Power-Duration Curve — fitted model overlay on raw data points]
[SCREENSHOT: Analytics — aerobic decoupling breakdown for a recent long ride]
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Gradescale is a mobile training analytics app that applies the same physiological models used by professional coaching staff — power-duration curves, aerobic decoupling, load balance tracking — directly on your phone.
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Gradescale is a mobile-first training analytics platform for endurance athletes. It models power-duration relationships, tracks chronic and acute load balance, and surfaces readiness scores derived from heart rate decoupling and recovery markers — all running on-device from your Strava data. The goal is insight delivery, not chart building: the app tells you what the numbers mean, not just what they are.
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Gradescale is a training analytics app that brings evidence-based physiological modeling to everyday athletes. Using a 3-parameter power-duration model fitted to your activity history, it estimates functional threshold power, anaerobic work capacity, and aerobic decay over any duration. Load balance tracking uses exponential moving averages over 42-day and 7-day windows to quantify training stress without proprietary score names. Built for iOS and Android, the app processes data locally from Strava — no subscription required to access core analytics. Gradescale launched into waitlist beta in 2026.
Quick Facts
- Founded
- 2026
- Team size
- 1 (solo founder)
- Platforms
- iOS + Android + Web
- Data source
- Strava API
- Waitlist members
- [PLACEHOLDER]
- Core algorithms
- 20+ modules