Kinely  ·  Mumbai, India
Kinely

The AI operating system
for fitness.

We build the software that runs the gym, the intelligence that coaches the body, and the game that fills the floor — three products on one brain.

TraqGym FreeForm Fitness SquatSense

Pre-seed · 2026  ·  Robin Carruthers (Founder & CEO)  ·  kinely.ai

The Problem

Fitness is broken on both sides of the floor.

🏚️

Gyms run blind

Spreadsheets, a decade-old desktop tool, and renewal calls made from memory. Cash leaks, staff fraud goes unseen, members churn silently. In India fewer than 1% of adults belong to a gym — and almost none of those gyms run on real software.

🩹

Bodies train blind

No one tells you your form is wrong until it hurts. Roughly 1 in 3 lifting injuries trace to technique; ~970k weight-training ER visits a year (US). 80% of people quit within 3 months — and online coaching can't even see them move.

The Company

One AI brain. Three products. One flywheel.

Most fitness startups pick a lane — a gym, an app, or a device. We built the full stack, because the value compounds when they connect.

TraqGym

Runs the business

The AI-native, WhatsApp-first operating system for the gym. Live · 1 paying gym

FreeForm Fitness

Coaches the body

Per-rep biomechanics from a single camera — no wearables, no hardware. Beta

SquatSense

Fills the funnel

A free, viral 30-second squat game. New members at zero acquisition cost. Live

Why Now

Three curves just crossed.

💬

India went chat + UPI native

500M+ WhatsApp users, ~15M businesses already on WhatsApp Business, UPI the default rail. SMBs skipped websites and apps — they live in chat.

📷

The camera became the sensor

Pose-estimation AI matured. Tonal ($4k) and Peloton ($3k) proved people pay for form feedback — we deliver it on a phone they already own.

📈

The market is doubling

India's fitness market doubles to $4.5B by 2030; the AI personal-trainer market goes $16.9B → $35.3B. Capital is funding applied AI, not models.

The Market

A doubling market, barely digitized.

  • Bottoms-up beachhead — India has 46,500 commercial gyms. Convert just 5–10% at ₹4,000/mo = ₹11–22 Cr (~$1.3–2.7M) ARR — before FreeForm, SquatSense or non-fitness verticals. Our $1M-ARR target is a single-digit slice.
  • Why now — a doubling, barely-digitized market: India fitness $1.9B → $4.5B by 2030 (~15% CAGR), gym software $2.2B → $4.0B — still run on pen, paper & Excel (<1% adult penetration).
  • Expansion — the same WhatsApp OS generalizes to salons, clinics & small retail — millions of appointment-and-membership SMBs beyond fitness.
46,500+
gym facilities in India
<1%
adult gym penetration (headroom, not saturation)
12.3M→23.3M
members by 2030
$2.2B→4.0B
gym software market

Sources: Deloitte × Health & Fitness Association (2025); ResearchAndMarkets; Mordor Intelligence.

Product 01 · TraqGymLive in production

The AI-native operating system for the gym.

Everything a gym needs to run — and an AI that actually does the work.

  • 48 admin modules, a 73-model data core: members, billing, attendance, PT, POS, payroll, retention CRM.
  • Built for India: UPI QR, GST invoices, GSTR-1 + Tally exports, cash & cheque, biometric check-in.
  • White-label & per-gym isolation — every gym gets its own brand, its own isolated data, its own AI.
  • Zero-risk switch: paste your old software's login → your whole gym is in TraqGym tomorrow morning.
TraqGym admin — one AI-native console across 48 modules.
The Wedge

Run your gym from WhatsApp.

  • Ask anything — in English, Hindi or Hinglish, even by voice note. "How much PT money this week?" → the real number.
  • A verified morning brief lands every day before the owner opens a laptop — checked against the raw data, not guessed. (On chat today via Telegram; WhatsApp rolling out.)
  • 14 AI agents work the night shift: silent-churn, revenue leaks, cash-shift variance — even "is my staff stealing?"
  • It doesn't just answer — it acts. A 214-tool agent books renewals, adds members and messages everyone. (Live in-product; rolling out to WhatsApp.)
Product 02 · SquatSenseLive · squatsense.ai

A 30-second game that fills the gym.

Free. Camera-only. No app, no hardware — and the leaderboard recruits the next player.

Product 03 · FreeForm FitnessInvite-only beta

A biomechanics lab in any camera.

  • Per-rep scoring, 0–100 on depth, stability, symmetry, tempo & ROM — across 8 modeled exercises, in real time.
  • It sees you fatigue and adjusts your weights before you break — a full coaching loop, not a form checker.
  • No hardware: what Tonal ($4k) and Peloton ($3k) charge a device for, we run on a phone.
  • Real strength-and-conditioning methodology, encoded — and every rep sharpens it.
The Future

We solve the one thing online coaching never could: seeing your form.

  • Members record a set; trainers coach from anywhere — with objective per-rep scores, not a blurry video squint.
  • On the roadmap: camera-equipped power-rack stations that grade the gym, rank members, and auto-update the trainer.
  • This unlocks the $28.9B → $120B online-fitness market — the slice every coaching platform is missing.
The Flywheel

Each product makes the others inevitable.

SquatSense fills the floor
A free game on every phone and gym TV pulls strangers in at zero cost.
FreeForm coaches them
Camera biomechanics turns a curious player into a coached, retained athlete.
TraqGym runs the gym that hosts all of it — and every rep & rupee flows into one backend
The shared data layer compounds into a movement-and-operations moat competitors can't assemble.
The Expansion

The same OS runs any business on WhatsApp.

  • A gym's primitives — appointments, recurring billing, a customer roster, reminders, payments — are a salon's, a restaurant's, a shop's.
  • 63M Indian MSMEs, most still on paper, all already on WhatsApp and UPI.
  • Land in fitness (we have the proof), then become the WhatsApp-native operating system for local business.
  • India social commerce: ~$2B → ~$70B by 2030 — we own the operations layer underneath it.
Traction

We didn't model traction. We imported it.

1st
arms-length gym already paying — eGym Lokhandwala
₹9.85 Cr
of the gym's prior operating history, migrated in (11 yrs at eGym Lokhandwala)
17,852
payment records migrated & running in the system
10,442
member records under management
3 of 3
products built & deployed (2 live, 1 in beta)
1
gym live in production (eGym Lokhandwala, paying)

Migration figures are real operating data from the gym's prior system — proof the platform ingests & runs enterprise-scale gyms, not SaaS revenue. Live today: 1 Mumbai gym — eGym Lokhandwala, our first arms-length paying customer. This round scales 1 paying gym → 10 (see the Strategy page).

Shipped & Live

The GTM machine is software now. Click it today.

  • Live AI console — kinely.ai/app: real LLM answers over the real, anonymized books of our paying gym — two-tier chat: instant answers, live AI reasoning behind them.
  • Self-serve onboarding — traqgym.kinely.ai/start: a gym signs itself up in three steps; every signup lands as a persisted, contactable lead.
  • Billing rails wired: Razorpay checkout (test mode) with server-side order creation and signature verification — flip to live keys at GA, nothing left to build.
  • Multi-tenant subdomains replaced branch-per-customer deploys — provisioning gym #167 is the same one config as gym #3. Architecture published at traqgym.kinely.ai/architecture.
  • Lead funnels on all three products: FreeForm registration is open, and the B2B gym-inquiry and corporate-office forms persist every lead to the database.
167
gyms at ₹4,999/mo…
~₹1 Cr
…is the ARR equation
6 mo
target window after GA
1
paying gym today (the honest base)

This is the plan, not traction: 167 gyms × ₹4,999/mo ≈ ₹1 Cr ARR, our target within 6 months of GA — from 1 paying gym live today.

Business Model

Three revenue engines, one cost base.

TraqGym — SaaS

Per-location monthly subscription + add-ons (online payments, biometric, WhatsApp automation). 30-day trial, nightly-sync onboarding, land-and-expand into chains.

FreeForm — B2C + B2B

Consumer app ₹499/mo (~94% gross margin) + gym licensing ₹15–40k/gym/mo, incl. camera power-rack stations and a remote-PT take rate.

SquatSense — Growth + Events

Primarily zero-CAC acquisition; monetized via corporate-wellness challenges, gym arenas, and brand-sponsored leagues.

Why We Win

Everyone has half. We have the whole.

AI-native ops Legacy / templated Western / app-first India / WhatsApp-fit
TraqGym
Mindbody · Glofox
PushPress · Zenoti
GymFito · Okfit
  • Global leaders (Mindbody, Glofox, PushPress) are powerful but wrong-railed: USD per-location pricing, card-and-app-first, no UPI, no GST, no WhatsApp ops.
  • Indian tools (GymFito, Okfit) have the rails but no brain: WhatsApp is a blaster, not an interface — no real AI, no data isolation, no white-label.
  • The white space is ours: AI-native operations + WhatsApp-first/no-app control + native UPI & GST + per-gym data isolation. No one combines all four at production depth.
  • And it's hard to fast-follow: per-gym data isolation, one-click migration that locks in switchers, and a decade of S&C science — not an LLM bolted onto a legacy tool.
Team

Operator-led. Already shipped.

Robin Carruthers — Founder & CEO

Three decades of leadership in advertising & media, then certified as a strength-and-conditioning and sports-rehab coach (a 120→78 kg turnaround after 40). Runs eGym Lokhandwala day-to-day — the gym where TraqGym was built and tested on the floor — the customer empathy and domain feel behind the product.

Amit Kumar Das — Technology Advisor

Advises Robin's engineering team. 7+ years across Fynd (Reliance Retail), Microsoft, Jio and SAS — built Ratl.ai, Fynd's GPT-powered agentic test-automation platform, used across Reliance e-commerce brands.

The Ask

₹4 Cr to turn a built product into a category.

₹4 Cr
pre-seed
SAFE
~₹20 Cr cap
18–24 mo
runway
Applied AI
vertical, not a model bet
  • What ₹4 Cr buys (by month 12): scale from 1 paying gym (eGym Lokhandwala, live today) to 10, compounding MRR, one retention/NRR proof point, and 3–5 FreeForm B2B pilots — the gate to a Series A.
  • Why this cap: benchmarked to Indian operator-led pre-seed (₹1.4–9.5 Cr at ~$4.5–5M); a ~₹20 Cr cap is defensible for a built, live, IP-owned product — 3 products, 73 data models, 214 AI tools, 224 tests shipped by a lean team. Priced for capital efficiency, not US AI-seed froth.
40%  GTM & sales — land gyms
30%  Product & AI R&D
15%  SquatSense growth & events
10%  Team & ops
5%  Legal & contingency
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