Built by a gym owner who wanted to stop guessing.

The personal pain

I’m Adam. For years I dealt with recurring back and shoulder issues, bouncing between physical therapists with no consistent way to track whether anything was actually changing between visits. Each PT had their own eye, their own cues, their own notes. Nothing carried over. There was no objective marker that said “this is where you were, this is where you are now.”

The build

So I built one for myself. An early Baseline walk-up (~10–15 minutes) that produced the same sequence every time, scored the same way, with on-device replay so I could compare side-by-side weeks apart. After enough iterations, the result was a repeatable movement baseline that a non-PT coach could run start-to-finish. I tracked my own scores across months and could finally see the trend the way a coach would see a barbell weight progression.

The commercialization

Once the protocol worked, I realized owner-led gyms have the same problem from the revenue side. PT attach rates are low because nobody has a structured handoff between the coach’s eye and a paid program. Roughly 50% of new gym members drop off before their 6-month mark (IHRSA Health Club Consumer Report) — and a repeatable movement baseline is one of the cleanest tools to address that. Piper Tech LLC is based in Butler, PA. Movement Pod ships as a modular three-camera kiosk running Meridian and Forge (Terrain external shape preview planned Q4 2026). Current deployments are local design-partner installs in western PA and eastern Ohio. Onsite setup is a courtesy when we can be there; included onboarding is staff training by webinar or in person.