About Roan

Helping men with demanding lives feel and perform at their best.

Roan is the AI performance coach built for men with demanding jobs and full lives.

01 · Why we built Roan

I was doing everything right. I was still exhausted.

I'm Zach Mobius. When I became a dad, I was COO of an eight-figure company. I trained most days. I ate well. I tracked my sleep and took the supplements. On paper I was doing everything right.

And I still felt exhausted, and my body was starting to break down. Once we had a kid, my training load was simply untenable. I gained weight, my sleep slid, and I kept training around the same shoulder and hip problems. I had less energy for work and less left for my family. Every time life got hard, my plan broke and I started again from behind.

It took me a long time to see why. My strategy was built for somebody else's life. I had pieced it together from people with no kids, no board meetings and all day to train. Each piece made sense on its own. Nothing connected them, and nothing adjusted when my week fell apart.

I didn't need more information. I needed someone to see the whole picture and tell me what mattered today.

That is what a great coach does. So I went and found the best one I know.

02 · The founders

Two reasons to build the same thing.

Zach Mobius
Zach Mobius wanted it for himself.Co-founder · built the app

A coach who sees the whole picture, fits the plan to a demanding job and a young family, and changes it when life does. He could not find one, so he set out to build it.

Jonathan Pope
Jonathan Pope wanted to reach more people.Co-founder · built the method

After more than 20 years of coaching, he’s done it all: started and ran a training facility with hundreds of clients, led coaching strategy for a global nutrition coaching company, and co-founded, designed, and scaled a highly adaptable performance training system for individuals working in special operations. Each step has informed the next, and he wanted to take what he’s learned throughout his career and put it within reach of men who would never hire a personal performance coach.

So we partnered, and we built it together. Zach designed and built the app, and he is its first user. Jonathan built the backend (the logic and systems underpinning the app), and his methodology is what powers everything Roan does. Everything below is his philosophy.

Next · Our philosophy

Built for chaos, not for perfect conditions.

Most health advice assumes a calm life and unlimited time. You have neither. This is how we think about performance for men who have a demanding job, a family and goals they have not given up on.

Read our philosophy →