The first twenty.
Twenty people who'll shape Ankh from launch onwards. Hand-picked. Tied directly to me. There will only ever be one Class of 2026.
APPLY TO BE ONE OF THE TWENTYApplications close 7 July 2026. Every application is read personally and replied to within seven days.
Ankh isn't another tracker. It's the AI brain that sits above your trackers. It joins every wearable you use (Whoop, Garmin, Apple Watch, Polar, Withings, plus the Apple Health bridge for everything else) with your workouts, nutrition, supplements and body composition, then turns all of that data into daily coaching, per-workout analysis, and Mission predictions calibrated to how you actually train.
We launch on 21 June 2026. The Originals are the first twenty people who'll be using the app on day one, shaping it from the inside.
An Original is a member of a small, finite, named group. Not an influencer, not an ambassador, not an affiliate. The Class of 2026 is twenty people who use Ankh, tell me what's broken, and earn permanent recognition as the people who were here from the start.
The bar isn't follower count or athletic ability. It's care. That you actually want to train better, that you have opinions about what's missing in your current setup, and that you'll use Ankh and tell me what works and what doesn't.
Applications close on 7 July. Future cohorts (Class of 2027, Class of 2028) will exist, but they won't be founding Originals. There will only ever be one Class of 2026.
Honest use of the app. Real, daily. Honest feedback in the private group whenever you have something to say. One 15-minute call with me each quarter, so four short calls per year. One Instagram Story at induction, announcing you've joined the Originals and sharing your first Ankh screenshot. That's the only public mention asked of you.
After induction, there are no posting requirements, no hashtags, no quotas, and no scripts. The program isn't a marketing funnel and won't become one.
Originals benefits are tied to active use of the app, defined as at least one workout logged or wearable sync per week, averaged across a month. After 60 days of inactivity, an Original's status converts to Founding Original Emeritus: the title stays, the recognition on this page stays, but Pro reverts to standard and the group channel access pauses. Active status can be reinstated at any time by simply opening the app again.
This isn't a punishment. It's the alignment mechanism that keeps the group made of people who actually train with Ankh, rather than people who claimed a free badge and disappeared.
You're handing your training, recovery, nutrition and body-composition data to an app you've never used before. That trust matters and we've designed for it from the start.
Sign-in is through Apple, so there's no email or password to give. Every data point is encrypted at rest and in transit. AI features run only on explicit consent, with a single toggle to switch them off. You can export everything in one tap and delete your account, with every record across every table, in one button. The detail is in our privacy policy.
Read the full privacy policy →Twenty squares. Filled one at a time, in order of induction.
This form takes about five minutes. I read every application personally and respond within seven days. Half the cohort is hand-picked, half come through this form.
Class of 2026 closes 7 July 2026. After that date, applications roll forward to Class of 2027, opening in January.