Quickstart
Five minutes to a working Avelok setup — a real profile, your first session logged, and a useful answer from the AI. No demo data, no placeholders.
This walkthrough assumes you're a coach or a player setting up Avelok for the first time. Parents and club operators have their own short guides — see For parents and For clubs.
You'll need:
- A phone with WeChat installed (for the player / parent side)
- A laptop with a recent Chrome, Edge or Safari (for Coach Studio)
- Five minutes
1. Install the Mini Program
Open WeChat, scan or search
On your phone, open WeChat. Tap the search icon (top right) and type Avelok. Tap the result with the coral logo. You can also scan the QR code printed in your invite email if your club sent you one.
Approve the basic permissions
Avelok will ask for your WeChat nickname and avatar — that's it. No location, no contacts, no microphone. You can change or remove these later under Settings → Privacy.
Pick your role
Choose Player, Coach, Parent or Club admin. You can hold more than one role on the same account (a coach who also plays, a parent who also coaches a club team, etc.) — pick the one that matches today and add the others later.
2. Create your first profile entry
The app opens on a clean home tab. There's nothing here yet — that's intentional.
Tap “Add session” (players & coaches)
Tell Avelok one real thing that happened: a session you ran today, a match you played last weekend, a drill you tried for the first time. Three sentences is fine. Voice-to-text works in all four UI languages.
Add who was there
If you're a coach, tag the players you worked with. If you're a player and you trained alone, leave the participants list empty. Avelok never auto-tags people you didn't put there.
Save
That's a session. You can edit it later. The AI will not analyse it until you ask it to.
Why so empty at the start?
Avelok refuses to seed your account with demo data. The first thing on your timeline should be something that actually happened to you, even if it's tiny. This sets the tone for the AI: it learns from your real history, not from a fictional one.
3. Ask the AI one real question
Open the chat tab. The AI is waiting with no greeting and no prompts — also intentional.
Try one of these, in your own words:
- "Read the session I just logged. Anything I should change next time?"
- "My forehand felt heavy this week. Was last week any different?"
- "Plan three short drills for the next session, around twenty minutes total."
The first answer will be short — the AI only has one session of context. It will get sharper as your timeline grows. See AI chat for what the AI can and can't do.
4. Connect to a coach or club (optional)
If your coach already uses Avelok, the fastest way to link up is the invite code printed at the top of their Coach Studio dashboard. In the Mini Program, go to Settings → My team, paste the code, and confirm. They'll see your sessions from that point onward — never your past sessions, unless you choose to share them.
Clubs can issue invite codes that wrap all their coaches and member tiers in one go — see For clubs.
5. Open Coach Studio (coaches only)
Coaches get a second surface — the desktop web app — designed for the longer-form parts of coaching: lesson plans, skill-tree edits, season retrospectives.
Sign in at the same email
Go to studio.avelok.com, sign in with the same WeChat account or email you used in the Mini Program. Studio mirrors the same data; nothing is duplicated.
Open the player you just tagged
You'll see a single row in the Players tab. Click it. The right pane shows the AI's draft of that player's strengths and weaknesses based on the one session you logged. Edit it freely — the AI treats your edits as ground truth.
Write the next plan
Click Plan next session and let the AI suggest three drills. Accept, reject or edit — the player will see whatever you save.
What's next
You now have the smallest working version of Avelok. From here, two paths: