FASCAT NAMED AI RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PARTNER OF CANYON//SRAM IN 2026

CANYON//SRAM is pleased to announce FasCat Coaching as its AI Research and Development Partner for the remainder of 2026. Through its CoachCat AI coaching platform, FasCat will provide proprietary, AI-powered season reviews for riders, working alongside the team’s performance staff to uncover valuable insights and help shape preparations for 2027.

Based in Colorado, FasCat has been coaching cyclists since 2003, supporting everyone from WorldTour professionals to first-time racers. Its CoachCat concept builds on more than two decades of coaching expertise and data gathered from thousands of athletes, delivering adaptive, personalised training plans and real-time feedback.

For professional teams and riders, CoachCat can analyse a rider’s complete performance history, often spanning five or more seasons, to identify patterns and insights that might otherwise go unnoticed. This includes examining which training blocks produced the biggest gains, identifying periods of plateauing fitness, uncovering correlations between heat and altitude blocks, and analysing the preparation leading into a rider’s best results. By cross-referencing these findings with additional metrics like sleep and heart rate variability (HRV), CoachCat also establishes whether a rider was recovering sufficiently from a workload.

The platform then uses these insights alongside current performance data to predict what a rider can achieve, advise the performance staff on what is and isn’t working, and inform future training decisions. FasCat describes this methodology as “Analyse, Predict, Prescribe”. 

Before this summer’s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, FasCat analysed the team’s historical rider data and generated predicted power outputs for key stages, including the decisive ascents of Mont Ventoux and Col d’Èze. The race data then validated the predictions and refined the model, helping to identify some of the biggest opportunities in training and preparation for seasons to come.

Frank Overton, Founder and CEO of FasCat Coaching, explains the thinking behind the partnership:

“WorldTour teams are sitting on a wealth of untapped data that could tell them exactly why a rider won or lost, and what to change. CoachCat finds that in minutes, not months. Working with CANYON//SRAM lets us prove at the highest level of the sport what our AI does every day for the athletes on our platform.”

Dan Fleeman, Performance Director at CANYON//SRAM, adds:

“We are always looking for new ways to understand performance, and AI analysis of a rider’s full history is a natural next step. FasCat’s AI analytics give our performance staff a fresh, objective look at what has driven each rider’s best results and where we can build for 2027. We have enjoyed exploring this together.”