Coaching Plans
Structured coaching programs.
Built by AI.
Tell Merlin what someone needs to work on. Get a personalized week-by-week coaching program that runs itself.
Raj needs help with delegation. He keeps doing the work himself instead of trusting his team.
I'll build a 6-week plan focused on delegation. Here's what I'm thinking:
Proposed program
Each week includes a coaching session, daily nudges, and a take-home exercise. Start this Monday?
You can’t give everyone a coach. But everyone needs one.
Executive coaching works. The problem is math. At $500/hour, you can coach 10 people. The other 190 get a workshop and a PDF. Risely makes structured coaching programs available to every person in your organization.
Traditional coaching
Risely coaching plans
Tell Merlin what someone needs. Get a program in seconds.
Describe the development need in plain language. Merlin designs a structured program: each week has a coaching session, daily nudges, and a take-home exercise. Each week builds on the last. Plans run 4-12 weeks depending on the skill.
Delegation Program
Raj · Week 3 of 6
When do you check in vs when are you hovering?
Delegate one task you'd normally do yourself.
Every session builds on the last. Every week gets more specific.
Each week, the employee gets a coaching session with Merlin focused on that week’s topic. After each session, Merlin gives feedback on engagement, reflection depth, and action plan quality. The next session unlocks automatically.
Session Feedback
Week 3: Trusting without hovering
You identified a real pattern: checking Slack every 20 minutes after delegating. The action plan to batch check-ins twice a day is specific and doable. Next session we'll look at how it went.
Self-driven and assigned. Different goals, same coach.
Self-driven coaching is the default: explore any skill, fully private. Assigned coaching plans are for structured development where HR sets the focus and tracks progress. Both use the same AI coach. Both produce measurable skill growth.
Self-driven coaching
The default for every userAssigned coaching plans
For targeted developmentI won't work for everyone. Some people will try me once and move on. But the ones who engage -- 82% are still talking to me at day 30 -- get measurably better at their jobs. The only thing I need from HR is an invite list. The rest is between me and your team.
Merlin — AI Coach Dashboards that answer the question your CFO keeps asking.
Track who’s on a coaching plan, who’s on track, and who fell behind. See engagement rates, skill improvement scores, and completion percentages across your organization.
Team Coaching Dashboard
Engineering Leadership · Q1 2026
24/28
Active users
86%
Avg engagement
+23%
Skill improvement
18
Journeys active
Coaching only works when people trust it.
“Can my manager see what I’m telling the AI?” Risely’s answer is explicit.
What HR sees
Assigned plans onlyWhat stays private
AlwaysUser data is not used to train AI models. Coaching without trust is just surveillance with a friendlier interface.
See how it works for your team.
Merlin coaches from your organizational context. Delivered where your team works.
Connect engagement surveys, OKRs, performance reviews, and company objectives. When a manager gets coached on delegation, Merlin factors in their team’s context, not just a textbook.
Engagement surveys
Team sentiment, satisfaction scores
OKRs & goals
Company and team objectives
Performance feedback
Review data, manager notes
HRIS
Role, team, tenure data
Your content
Frameworks, playbooks, models
Company culture
Values, norms, expectations
Coaching delivered where your team already works
Weekly sessions + daily nudges in inbox.
Microsoft Teams
Coaching sessions + nudges in Teams.
Slack
Merlin in Slack. 40 languages, voice + chat.
3,000+ users across 40+ organizations in 10 countries.
87%
engage in week one
82%+
still engaging at day 30
26%
avg skill improvement in 12 weeks
5 min
from signup to first coaching session
Trusted by teams at
"We searched for a long time for a management training solution that covered all bases for people skills as well as things like time management and organization. But only Risely delivered this for us. Risely's team has been super helpful and responsive, and the AI component, Merlin, is really amazing."
Joy Jones
VP, Your Pet Space
"In day to day hustle of the team, one misses the loss of productivity that we might be experiencing. Risely helped me cut the fog and build stronger teams in a short time."
Geeta Manchanda
Senior Director, Axtria
Frequently asked questions
How does an admin create a coaching plan?
What happens during a coaching session?
How does the week-by-week progression work?
How is this different from having employees use ChatGPT?
What data does HR see from coaching plans?
Can we use our own learning content?
Is there a minimum team size?
See how coaching plans work for your team.
Book a demo to see the admin experience: plan creation with Merlin, week-by-week programs, dashboard reporting. Or try Merlin yourself first.