Hey everyone! We re the team behind Pinnacle, and tomorrow we are finally launching on Product Hunt.
We started this journey because most 'high performance' tools are just trackers digital chores that tell you what happened to your body, but don't help you understand your mind. We wanted to build a system that helps you maintain focus, resilience, and energy when the stakes are high.
What we've been building: We ve moved beyond simple chatbots to create an AI agent that uses built-in iPhone sensors like HRV (Heart Rate Variability) and voice-based reflection to turn mental signals into actionable clarity. No 'workslop,' just science-backed tools for situational execution.
We would love your support and feedback when we hit the feed tomorrow
Congrats on the launch, Joel! Really impressive to see how you're leveraging on-device sensors for these kinds of emotional insights. The focus on performance and resilience for knowledge workers hits home.
Quick question: what sensors on the device are you using?
Would love to see how this evolves. Upvoted!
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Hey Product Hunt, I'm Joel, co-founder of Pinnacle!
The Problem
Our world today is overwhelming. Always-on culture and increasing demands have created an epidemic of stress, fatigue, distraction and burnout. Yet the tools available aren’t built to help people perform at their best under daily pressure.
Therapy is incredibly valuable for mental health support, but it's expensive and geared more towards processing past experiences rather than future-focussed personal growth.
Coaching is more relevant to performance enhancement but still expensive, decentralised and lacking quantified measures to track progress.
Meditation apps teach profound mindfulness practice, but these experiences are impersonal and static, lacking adaption over time or a deep understanding of the user.
Smart Wearables measure your body but don’t measure your mind. Insights are limited to physiological indicators, lacking a more complete psychological picture.
The Pinnacle Solution
Pinnacle turns your iPhone into a tool for understanding and training your mind.
Using the sensors already built into your phone, our AI reads real-time biometrics, interprets your emotional state, and pulls everything together into a clear picture of how you're actually performing.
Instead of raw data, you get simple, actionable insights you can use throughout your day. With Pinnacle, you can track and improve your focus, HRV, emotions, sleep, and overall performance.
Think of Pinnacle as a mirror for your inner world. It surfaces patterns you wouldn’t normally notice and helps you make small, meaningful changes that add up over time, so you can perform better day after day.
For the first time, if you have an iPhone, you can truly quantify and upgrade your mind.
Who is this for?
If you're a knowledge worker experiencing high pressure and feeling stressed, fatigued or distracted, Pinnacle helps you build resilience and thrive under pressure. Upgrade your brain with Pinnacle.
Get started today
From today, the Product Hunt community gets access to Pinnacle Core for free. Try Pinnacle at pinnacle.co and see what you can achieve.
In the future, Pinnacle will start charging a monthly subscription. If you love Pinnacle, please message us directly with PHLOVE. The first 50 folks to do that before Saturday March 14th will get their first year of Pinnacle Core for free.
@joel_jackson1 Love this, and congrats. Just a simple que for you; how does Pinnacle turn raw iPhone sensor data (like mic for HRV?) into reliable emotional insights without extra hardware, and what's one early user pattern you've seen boost resilience most?
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@swati_paliwal emotional insights are generated through conversations with the LLM. We use HRV and other wearable data to understand the physiological indicators are correlated with your emotional state to provide the optimal training path for you.
In terms of user patterns, we have noticed users often start with high level goals like "Improve output at work", but through progressive conversations and measurements realize the underlying root cause like "lack of stress resilience" and that's when they see a step function change in their performance.
@joel_jackson1 Congrats on the launch! Curious whether the brain performance baselines account for hormonal cycles. For women, focus and energy patterns shift significantly across the month. Is that something Pinnacle factors in?
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@rishab_mehra That's cool, Rishab!
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@mahima_jain1 Hi Mahima, it's great to have you on the Pinnacle system - I am glad you enjoy the app.
If you're open to sharing, it would be great to learn about a particular scenario where Pinnacle helped you with your energy or anxiety!
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@mahima_jain1 makes sense - in newer versions, you can also connect your wearable data through Apple Health and measure sleep objectively along side the performance score!
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@mahima_jain1 Great to hear Pinnacle has been a support you overtime and you've enjoyed tracking your progress towards your goal through the performance score and psychological measures within the app. As your performance coach its also fantastic to hear the system is replicating coaching.
Calibrating to a personal baseline is a good design decision. I've used apps that tell me my focus score is "72" with no context for whether that's good or bad for me specifically. Relative improvement from my own starting point is a much more useful signal.
How are you using the iPhone sensors for brain measurement? I'm curious whether it's HRV-based (which correlates with cognitive readiness) or something else. And do the breathwork exercises adapt based on what the sensors detect, or is the exercise library more of a fixed menu that you recommend from?
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have been an early user! I'm impressed with how far its come. The interface and interaction is sci-fi and love the HRV and emotional detection features. What's next on the roadmap?
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@sumon_sadhu it's been great having you as a beta user Sumon - you've really helped shape the direction of this company.
Next up we are bringing our attention tracking into the production system! Can't wait for a wider audience to be able to measure and train their focus objectively day after day.
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@sumon_sadhu Thank you for the feedback! We really appreciate your thoughts on our HRV tracking and emotional detection features. You input has been very valuable throughout the journey. As you’ve experienced through the coaching at Pinnacle, the system builds a profile over time to better understand each user, enabling more personalised insights and now coaching directly through the app.
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Thanks @sumon_sadhu. Your feedback has been invaluable in helping to shape the product. More exciting things to come! 🙌
Love the concept. I’ve tried prompting chatgpt to be my coach but it hasn’t led to great results. What’s your approach that’s differentiated from existing LLMs?
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@upasna_mehta This is a great question, and an important one for Pinnacle. We empower the LLM with multiple layers of biometric and performance-related data, psychological analysis and a sophisticated framework of science-backed coaching tools which other platforms don't have access to. The result is a system which has a deep understanding of what peak performance means for you, and has the methods to get you there.
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Hi @upasna_mehta. Thanks for the feedback! Jumping in on the design/UX side of Chris's point—the biggest difference is 'agency.'
When you prompt a standard LLM, the burden is on you to know what to ask. We designed Pinnacle to remove that cognitive load. It doesn't wait for a prompt; it uses those biometric and performance signals to 'lean in' at the right moment.
Think of it like the difference between a textbook (ChatGPT) and a coach standing next to you (Pinnacle). One has the information, the other has the context of your current state. This is what Pinnacle offers that other LLMs currently do not.
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@upasna_mehta we've spent the last year with our performance director, Neil, to develop an architecture around coaching framework. Our AI system uses this architecture to inform LLMs, rather than prompting them directly, leading to a much more smooth coaching conversation!
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Using the iPhone's built-in camera for HRV measurement without requiring a wearable removes a huge adoption barrier — most brain performance tools fail because they add hardware friction before delivering any value. With the attention tracking feature coming soon, how are you thinking about privacy given that it likely requires continuous camera access during work sessions?
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@svyat_dvoretski We've worked hard to break down any friction in our performance measurement tools. Privacy is a key concern with Pinnacle. All image processing takes place on device, and only the distilled performance data is retained. We're always upfront about when and why we are using capture devices.
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@svyat_dvoretski attention tracking is a one off test where you can track how well you can manage your inherent attention rather than concentrating on a task.