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Trained assessors marked an AI coaching agent against the ICF framework. It passed more than coaches expected — and failed on silence.
A new survey of 862 independent practitioners puts a number on the quiet math every full-calendar coach already lives inside.
A new survey of daily AI users found a 28-point gap between people whose chatbot challenged them and people whose chatbot just agreed.
A new Substack study separates the posts that grow an audience from the posts that take money, and they are almost never the same posts.
New BetterUp Labs numbers finally split coaching into two piles — urgent and identity — and only one of them is safe.
A new peer-reviewed study watched HR leaders use an AI coach for weeks. The plans were good. The follow-through wasn't.
Fortune's story on Superhuman's Rahul Vohra reveals the moment every executive coach dreams about: a founder's peer group deciding the fix was coaching.
New Sounds Profitable data says the podcast audience isn't shrinking. It's allocated. And every new show is asking someone to fire an incumbent.
New 2026 data says the single most common creator income stream isn't ads or digital products — it's selling your time one client at a time.
The discovery call went beautifully and the deal still died. Coaches read that as a pricing problem. The behavioral research says otherwise.
New research into creator fees exposes what happens to any market without published prices — and it explains the silence after your last proposal.
A new randomised trial put accredited human coaches against AI chatbots inside one global company. Only one side moved the numbers.
The exhaustion data cuts across every audience size and category — and the money is already moving toward retreats, dinners and owned community.
New survey data and a Stanford study in Science reveal the real competitive threat to coaching: not better advice, but nicer advice, free, at 2am.
Creators went video-first faster than listeners did. For coaches launching a show, that gap is permission to spend far less money up front.
