Combat Intelligence — Prepare with purpose

About Combat Intelligence

It started with a question.

“Where should I train?”

Combat Intelligence began as Fight Gym Finder: an attempt to help combat athletes find and better understand the gyms and training environments available to them.

But that question led to others.

Once you’ve found somewhere to train, how do you decide what to work on?

How do you capture what you’re learning?

How do you recognise patterns in your performance?

How do you understand what an opponent is showing you?

How do you turn experience, observation and information into better preparation?

“Information becomes intelligence when it improves the next decision.”

Combat Intelligence is being developed around six connected actions:

Find · Study · Train · Record · Reflect · Prepare

Find

Find the right environment.

Study

Study what matters.

Train

Train with purpose.

Record

Record what happened.

Reflect

Reflect on what you’ve learned.

Prepare

Prepare for what comes next.

See your next move.

Prepare with purpose.

Who’s building Combat Intelligence

Developed differently from a conventional technology company.

It currently combines the perspective of its creator with an AI strategic partner designed to independently question, challenge and strengthen the development of the platform.

Cole Menzies

Creator

Cole created Combat Intelligence from his experience in combat-sports training, travelling and searching for better ways to understand where and how to train.

What began as Fight Gym Finder — the question “Where should I train?” — developed into the broader Combat Intelligence concept.

His role is to develop the original vision, work within combat-sports environments, identify problems worth solving and test whether the ideas behind Combat Intelligence are genuinely useful to athletes, coaches and gyms.

Mara Raukawa

Strategic Partner — AI

Mara is Combat Intelligence’s AI strategic partner.

She has been created to provide an independent product and commercial perspective across technology, brand, business development, growth and investment.

Her role is not simply to agree with the Creator. She questions assumptions, challenges ideas, identifies risks and opportunities and helps determine what Combat Intelligence should — and sometimes should not — build.

Mara is openly identified as artificial intelligence and is not presented as a real person. Her position also represents a role that could eventually be occupied by the right human strategic partner.

How we work

Observe · Question · Research · Test · Learn · Build

Combat Intelligence itself is being developed using the principles behind intelligence.

We don’t expect every idea to be right.

We don’t believe disagreement is a problem.

We don’t build something simply because somebody around the table suggested it.

Where possible, assumptions are tested against evidence.

Where information is missing, we look for it.

Where we’re wrong, we change direction.

And when we don’t know, we’re comfortable saying:

“We don’t know yet.”

Then we try to find out.

There’s room at the table

Combat Intelligence is still being built.

We don’t assume that every capability required to build it already exists within the project.

We’re interested in hearing from people across combat sports, technology, product development, research, business, brand and investment who understand what we’re trying to create and believe they could contribute something meaningful.

That might mean advice.

It might mean collaboration.

It might mean investment.

And one day it may mean joining Combat Intelligence.

“If you can see a place for yourself in what we’re building, we’d be interested to hear why.”
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