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Looking for an AI coaching app you can trust? Here is what Coach Marlee does, how a program runs from week to week and the research behind every answer.
Free to start. No credit card needed. Try a full 8-week program and judge it yourself.
What does it coach, what is the evidence and how does a session actually go?
This page answers those three questions for Coach Marlee, your AI coach for 1,000+ goals across work and personal life. Everything starts with the Marlee Motivational Analysis, which measures 48 work motivations and does not measure personality. If you want the big picture first, read the overview of AI coaching, or see how it feels day to day on the coaching app page.
Coach Marlee is not a chat window with a friendly name. It rests on data, research and a method.
The Motivational Analysis measures 48 work motivations with up to 98% reliability. Coach Marlee reads your results before it coaches you.
What it changes: the coaching suits you, whether you need structure or variety, a push or a plan.
Marlee's models draw on 25+ years of motivation research and 16 billion data points. Coaching recommendations follow patterns in that data.
What it changes: suggestions are grounded in evidence instead of whatever sounds good on the day.
Programs use evidence-based coaching methodologies co-developed by Marlee's founder, Michelle Duval, a pioneer in coaching since 1997.
What it changes: each program has a clear coaching structure rather than being a loose conversation.
A program runs for 8 weeks with two sessions a week. You choose a goal, such as confidence, emotional intelligence or a clearer sense of direction, and Coach Marlee builds each session around that goal and around your results.
Each session is a conversation rather than a lecture. Coach Marlee asks questions, reflects what it sees in your motivations and points you to something practical to try before the next one. Over the weeks, the small steps add up.
Whichever program you pick, a few things hold steady.
More than 1,000 goals across work and personal life. Here are four programs to give you a feel.
Explore, strengthen and stand by what you believe in, at work and in life.
See the program →Build energy and emotional resilience, and break through self-sabotage.
See the program →Get more comfortable with strategic thinking and see the wider view.
See the program →Master stepping back, so that learning sticks and improvement becomes a habit.
See the program →The free plan includes your Motivational Analysis and one complete 8-week program with Coach Marlee. No credit card needed, so the science above becomes something you can test yourself.
Here is the path from account to first coaching conversation.
Sign up with no credit card. Your results are private and visible only to the spaces you choose to join.
Your Motivational Analysis is ready instantly. Spend a few minutes with the motivations that stand out, for better or worse.
Choose a structured program for a goal you want to work on, or use Ask Marlee to get guidance on a specific situation, such as which roles would suit you.
Come back to your results over time to see what is shifting, compare profiles with up to 3 teammates, and add a human coach when you want one.
of coaching users achieve their goals within just 4-8 weeks
data points behind every coaching recommendation Marlee makes
reliability at measuring 48 work motivations
years of motivation science behind Marlee
“Coaching with Marlee helped me build deeper levels of self-esteem and how I value myself vis-a-vis the greater world. It also taught me courage to believe in my beliefs, and that it is not about success or failure, but that we give it a go, a try.”
The 48 work motivations Coach Marlee reads before it coaches you.
Explore →Certified coaches who work from the same data and the same methodology.
Explore →The founder and coaching pioneer behind Marlee's methodology.
Explore →See how teams use Marlee in Managing & Coaching, Leadership Development and High Performance Individual Contributors, or read how coaching works across Marlee on the coaching feature page and in the Marlee blog.
Related pages: coaching app and free coaching app.
Coach Marlee combines three inputs: your Motivational Analysis, the goal you have chosen and the coaching methodology built into each program. It then uses language AI to turn those into a conversation that sounds natural and fits you.
That is why two people on the same program get different coaching. The structure is the same, but the examples, the questions and the suggested steps follow each person's motivations.
It is backed by research. The Motivational Analysis draws on 25+ years of motivation science and 16 billion data points, measures 48 work motivations and has up to 98% reliability. Programs follow methodologies co-developed by Michelle Duval, a pioneer in coaching since 1997.
The Marlee coaching results speak to it too: 90% of coaching users achieve their goals within 4 to 8 weeks.
Yes. Coach Marlee coaches 1,000+ goals across work and personal life, and the programs are the most structured way into some of the most common ones. For a specific situation, such as preparing for a performance conversation or choosing between two roles, you can ask Marlee directly.
Ask Marlee uses your unique analysis, so even a one-off question gets an answer that fits how you are wired.
A human coach can sit with you in the room, read a moment in person and bring years of lived experience. Coach Marlee cannot do that. What it offers is availability whenever you need it, a deep read of your motivations and a free way to begin.
Many people use both. A human coach on Marlee's bench works from your data and is trained in methodologies co-developed by Michelle Duval, so the coaching stays data-backed and consistent.
Yes. The free plan includes one complete 8-week coaching program with Coach Marlee, along with your Motivational Analysis and comparisons with up to 3 teammates. There is no credit card to enter.
If you want more programs or team features later, the pricing page shows what each plan includes.
Run your free Motivational Analysis and start your first program with Coach Marlee.
