A partnership for dietitians whose clients want to train

Plenty of the people who come to a dietitian want to get fitter as well as eat differently, and the training half is often left to a gym membership and good intentions. A dietitian referral partnership with TriageFit gives those clients a coached programme and a weekly check-in, keeps the clinical nutrition with you, and costs your practice nothing to join.

What your client gets

Your client starts with an intake of about thirty minutes, which they can save and finish later. It covers their goals, their training history, any injuries, how their week runs and the equipment they can reach, and their programme is built from it in phases of four to six weeks that our coaches designed.

Once a week they check in. Most of it is already filled in from what they logged, so it takes a few minutes, and a coaching message about their week arrives within seconds of sending it. A real coach reads the same check-in. Between check-ins the AI coach answers at any hour, and any change it makes to their plan, such as a shorter session or a swapped exercise, is a proposal they confirm.

How the food coaching works

Food is coached in one of three styles, set from how the client answers the intake, and they can change it later. A client who likes numbers gets one calorie target for the day with protein, carbohydrate and fat under it, adjusted week by week from their logging and their weigh-ins. A client who would rather not count works in hand portions, and one who prefers habits works on a single habit at a time. Every style comes with a meal framework that gives each meal a timing and a focus, lists grocery staples and adds a note for training days and rest days, and on the habits approach the framework carries no figures.

The intake records how they eat, whether that is vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, halal, kosher, gluten-free or dairy-free, and the notes in their nutrition plan are written around it, down to vegetarian or vegan protein sources in the grocery staples. An allergen they declare is taken out of those staples and out of their food search, with a reminder to check labels. A fibre target is set as well, scaled to their calories, with a note to build it up gradually and to work it out with their GP or dietitian where there is a gut condition such as IBS.

A client who already eats to figures you have set can be coached on habits instead, working on one habit at a time rather than to a calorie target.

Where eating becomes a clinical question

Medical diets, such as a renal or diabetic diet, sit outside the coaching and stay with the professional managing them, whether that is you or the client's GP. A few situations also hold the calorie target rather than cutting it. In pregnancy it stays at maintenance and a cut is for their midwife or doctor to decide, and while they are breastfeeding there is no cut, because losing weight then is something to plan with their GP, midwife or a dietitian first. A client who is underweight is given no deficit, and one already at a low body fat is held at maintenance, with going lower a question for their GP or a dietitian.

When a blood marker on their record is flagged, the AI coach suggests putting it in front of their GP, and what to eat about it stays a clinical question for you or the GP. A client who tells the intake they have been diagnosed with an eating disorder has calorie and macro targets kept away from them and is coached on habits, and whether training suits someone with that history is a judgement for the clinicians who know them.

What you see if a client shares

Sharing is the client's choice, made at checkout or later in their settings, and a client who never shares keeps the full service and the discount. When they share, your portal shows their progress summary: their programme week, their last check-in, an adherence figure, their health scores and which way they are moving, blood work from the last year, their medications and injuries, and the energy, stress and sleep from their last two weeks of check-ins. It leaves out their journal, their messages with their coach and the day-to-day training and food logs. Every read is logged with who read what and when, and the data flows page sets out where client data goes.

Before an appointment, a client can also download a PDF of what the app holds on them, with their goals, body composition, blood work, medications and supplements, habits and adherence, and bring it with them.

A client who wants to start lifting

Take a client you have been seeing about a vegetarian diet that keeps leaving them short on protein, who now wants to start lifting. At intake they record that they are vegetarian and say they go by feel rather than numbers, which puts their food coaching on habits while their figures come from you. Their programme is built for the three evenings a week they can train and the gym near their work. Their first check-in shows two sessions done and one lost to a late shift, with energy rated low, and the coaching message reads the missed session next to the shift. At their next appointment they bring the PDF of their profile, and because they chose to share, you have already seen their programme week and the energy and sleep they reported. The protein conversation stays with you, and the training has a coach.

Costs, the discount and the commission

Your client pays €50 every 4 weeks or €500 a year, with VAT included, and your link takes 10% off every payment for as long as their membership runs. Registering costs your practice nothing.

A referral commission is there for practices whose rules allow one, and those rules differ from one profession to the next. It is off when you register, and switching it on records your confirmation that commission is permitted for you and that you will make any disclosure your rules require. It pays 5% of what each client actually pays: €2.25 on each block payment, €29.25 over a year of blocks and €22.50 on an annual membership, so 10 clients on the block plan come to €292.50 a year. It is earned on your own link, held for 30 days, reversed if a payment is refunded and paid monthly through Stripe Connect once your balance reaches €20. The decision to refer stays a clinical one. What clinics can earn sets the numbers out in more detail.

Registering as a partner

Registration at the clinic sign-up page takes a few minutes: your practice name, your own name and a contact email, with your website and role if you want to add them. Your link, your portal and a printable one-pager with the link and its QR code are ready straight away. The partnership is for healthcare providers, so we check each registration by hand and may ask for evidence of your practice, and no client is asked to share anything with you until we have verified it.

The referral partnership overview covers how the partnership runs, sports therapist referrals shows the same partnership from a practice that treats injuries, and the clinic page walks through what your clients get.