{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business","title":"Next Biz Thing #397 thebean.ai","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":680,"description":"TheBean https://thebean.aiThis episode of The Next Biz Thing looks at TheBean, an AI fitness coaching platform built by a small team in Lithuania and used by people around the world. Markus J. Diplama explores why most fitness apps track everything and still leave people stuck, and how TheBean answers the simpler question of what to do next by adapting the plan as life gets in the way. The episode covers the free calculators and exercise database, the company values, and what this approach signals about where consumer AI is heading. Well worth a listen.Here is a question I keep coming back to. Why is it that the single most valuable thing a personal trainer gives you is almost never the workout itself, but the sentence that comes right before it? Not the sets, not the reps, not the clever exercise you have never heard of. Just four ordinary words. Today we are doing this. That is the thing people are actually paying for, and for most of the history of the fitness industry, it has been the one thing you could not buy unless you could afford somebody standing next to you in a gym.Welcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and if you have listened before, you know the deal. Every episode I go looking for a company that is quietly solving a problem most of us have simply learned to live with, and I try to work out what they saw that everybody else walked past. Today we are heading to Lithuania, to a small team building something called TheBean, and I want to talk about what happens when you stop treating fitness as a data problem and start treating it as a decision problem.Let me set the scene, because I think a lot of you are going to recognise yourselves in it. You download a fitness app. It is beautiful. It has charts. It logs your sets, it tracks your body weight, it draws a nice little line showing your bench press over twelve weeks. And after about three weeks, you stop opening it. Not because it broke. Not because it lied to you. Because on a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Pb0F3jmlyIfOyRlax9T63lldyNPycKwPJeWzBdTAC44/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NzEzLzE3MDc4/NDQ0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}