It shows its work
Twenty-seven articles and a set of in-context tooltips, every claim tied to a real, URL-verified source — Mifflin, Morton, Helms, Schoenfeld, Lally. Where a number is a tuned default rather than a finding, it says so instead of inventing a citation.
Ranks you only compete with yourself in
Eight tiers from Bronze to PEAK, computed per exercise from a bodyweight- and sex-normalised estimated one-rep max. No percentiles, no leaderboards, no population framing. Stop training a lift and it goes quiet and keeps its peak — it is never marked down.
Freshness, described honestly
Four named bands — Fresh, Recovered, Worked, Just trained — and no percentage anywhere, because a percentage would imply a precision that is not there. It describes the sets you logged. It is not a readiness score.
A week has more say than a day
One heavy day never escalates on its own, and when something is worth flagging it arrives with the week around it. The copy reports what happened and leaves the verdict to you.