Roles & permissions
PlanMyPeak has two coach roles. Your role is set when you join and decides what you can see and change.
- Head coach — runs the company. Head coaches manage the team, see every athlete, and control company-wide settings such as compliance alert rules and custom AI feedback.
- Assistant coach — coaches the athletes assigned to them. Assistant coaches have full control over their own athletes’ reviews and feedback, but don’t see company-wide settings or athletes they aren’t assigned to.
How you get a role
- When you create a company during sign-up, you become its head coach.
- When you join an existing company with an invite code, you join as an assistant coach.
A company can have more than one head coach. See Managing your team for how head coaches invite and manage coaches.
What each role can do
“Assigned” means an athlete has been linked to a specific coach. Head coaches always see every athlete; assistant coaches see only their assigned athletes.
| Feature | Assistant coach | Head coach |
|---|---|---|
| Sign in, reset password | ✅ | ✅ |
| Connect TrainingPeaks and sync your roster | ✅ | ✅ |
| Review the report queue | ✅ Assigned athletes | ✅ All athletes |
| Open an analysis, edit feedback, approve & publish | ✅ Assigned athletes | ✅ All athletes |
| View athletes | ✅ Assigned only | ✅ All athletes |
| Activate / deactivate an athlete, set feedback approval | ✅ Assigned only | ✅ All athletes |
| Change an athlete’s training type or plan type | ✅ Assigned only | ✅ All athletes |
| Compliance Alerts dashboard | ✅ Assigned athletes | ✅ All athletes |
| Choose your own measurements, feedback tone, report settings | ✅ Own settings | ✅ Own settings |
| Manage notification preferences | ✅ Own preferences | ✅ Own preferences |
| View the team | ❌ | ✅ |
| Invite or remove coaches | ❌ | ✅ |
| Import assistant coaches from TrainingPeaks | ❌ | ✅ |
| Set your own athlete alert rule | ✅ Own athletes | ✅ Own athletes |
| Set weekly TSS compliance alert rules | ❌ | ✅ |
| View the Athlete Feedback report | ❌ | ✅ |
When you don’t have permission
Head-coach-only pages are left out of an assistant coach’s navigation entirely — Team and Athlete Feedback simply aren’t in the sidebar. If you reach one from a bookmark or a link, you’ll see a short message explaining it’s limited to head coaches. Alert Rules is different: every coach sees it, because it holds their own athlete alert rule; only the weekly TSS compliance section on that page is head-coach-only, and it’s simply not shown to assistants.
If you think you need head-coach access, ask a head coach in your company to make the change for you.