FAQ
Frequently asked
questions.
What Protocol is, which devices it reads, what the coach actually knows, and what happens to your data.
Short questions, straight answers.
10 questions across the basics, devices, the coach, privacy and pricing
Getting started
Who it is for, how a day works, and what you need to begin.
People who already have the stack. You own an Oura ring, WHOOP, or Apple Watch, and you actually use it. You may have pasted your health stats into ChatGPT just to get a real recommendation. You're not looking for motivation, you're looking for a system that ties it all together and tells you the truth every day. Bonus points if you track macros or you're working toward a specific body-comp goal.
Connect your sources in about two minutes: Oura, WHOOP, and Apple Health. Protocol reads them together against your own baselines, and every morning by 8am you get one brief with one clear call for the day. In between, ask the coach anything, it answers from your history, not a generic playbook. Then the loop closes: every goal gets an honest verdict (hit, almost, miss), your streak remembers, and tomorrow starts from what you actually did.
It's the best way to live with Protocol: the morning brief notification, scorecard, coach, trends, and streaks all in your pocket, with native Apple Health sync. It's also the fastest way to log meals: snap a photo or scan a barcode and the macros land on your scorecard. There's a full web app too, so you can start free in the browser and add the app whenever.
One source is enough to start. Apple Health alone covers sleep, steps, and workouts. Every source you add sharpens the synthesis, because the value is in reading the signals together.
Devices & data
How your ring, strap and watch fit together.
No, and connecting everything is the point. Every metric has one source of truth: Protocol ranks your sources per metric (your ring leads on sleep and recovery, your watch on movement), so a night tracked by three devices still counts once. For steps and active calories, the highest complete count wins. And if you'd rather hear from a specific device, you can pin a preferred source per metric any time.
Keep them, they're great sensors. But each one only reasons inside its own walls: a strap can't see your ring, your watch workouts, or the rest of your stack, and every app that adds its own logging just hands you one more parallel score to reconcile. Apple Health has the opposite problem: it collects everything and has an opinion about nothing. Protocol is the decision layer on top. It reads WHOOP, Apple Health, and Oura together against your baselines and turns all of it into one clear call for the day, plus a coach you can interrogate about any number. Your devices measure. Protocol decides.
The coach
What it reads, and how it talks to you.
Everything you've connected, all at once: last night's sleep, this morning's HRV, your training load, your meals, and months of your own baselines. You never paste in context or re-explain yourself. It answers with your numbers, remembers what you're working toward, and follows up like someone genuinely in your corner, because it has read the whole story.
No. Accountability here feels like a coach in your corner, not a scold. The verdicts are honest, and there's an 'almost' between hit and miss for a reason. Streaks celebrate rather than shame. And when a day goes sideways, tomorrow's brief doesn't lecture you about it, it starts from where you actually are and gives you the next move.
Privacy & pricing
What happens to your data, and what it costs.
Yes. Your data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest, and device connections use OAuth with read-only scopes, so Protocol never sees your device account passwords. Your data is never used to train models and never sold, and Protocol is explicit about what it reads and why. You can disconnect any source, or delete your account and its data, at any time.
Free to start, no credit card. One paid plan unlocks full access. You've already invested hundreds in hardware, Protocol is the layer that makes all of it actually work together. See full pricing.