StokeOS for climbing gyms & bouldering facilities

Climb
higher.
Not
deeper
in admin.

AI agents that handle member retention, waiver queues, safety compliance, and youth program scheduling — so you spend more time building community and less time buried in operations.

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Member retention & churn prevention Waiver & check-in automation Safety & compliance tracking Youth program scheduling Day pass conversion
What's actually slowing you down

Your members love climbing.
Your operations are
working against them.

Climbing gyms run on community, progression, and belonging — but the day-to-day is full of friction that wears members down before they ever feel it. Lapsed memberships, waiver bottlenecks, liability exposure, and youth program chaos quietly drain the revenue and reputation you've spent years building.

01

Members are lapsing. You don't know until they're already gone.

Climbing gyms see 30–40% annual churn — and most of it is preventable. Members don't quit all at once. They just stop coming. Two weeks off becomes a month. A month becomes a cancellation email. Without visibility into attendance patterns, you're always reacting too late.

The average climbing gym member cancels after 7–8 months — gyms with automated re-engagement stretch this to 12+ months
A member who hasn't visited in 14 days is 3x more likely to cancel than one who visited last week — but no one flags them
Manual email win-back campaigns require staff time, list management, and consistent follow-through that never happens during a busy season
Every 10% increase in churn is 10% less revenue — for a gym with 300 members at $120/month, that's $43,000/year walking out the door silently
02

Birthday parties, groups, and 4pm rush. Your front desk can't handle all three at once.

Between 4pm and 7pm on any weekday, your front desk runs a gauntlet: member check-ins, day pass sales, waiver collection, parent questions, and phone calls — simultaneously. First-time visitors who wait 20 minutes in a queue don't become members. They leave and don't come back.

Paper waivers take 5–15 minutes per guest to collect, file, and manage — at peak hours, that's a queue that kills the new visitor experience
Birthday parties and corporate events require last-minute waiver collection from 15–20 people who all arrive at once with no pre-screening
Day pass buyers who have a frictionless first visit convert to memberships at 30–40%; those who wait in line rarely come back
Minors need separate parent signatures that weren't communicated in advance — a common cause of check-in chaos and frustrated families
03

That harness on the rental wall? It may be three years past retirement. You'd never know.

Safety compliance at a climbing gym is non-negotiable — but most gyms track it in spreadsheets, paper logs, or not at all. A single incident with undocumented equipment history is a litigation catastrophe. Harness retirement, route inspection logs, and incident reporting are the paper trail that protects you when it matters.

Rental harnesses have a service life of 3–5 years or 1,000 uses — without use-count tracking, retirement dates are guesses at best
Route inspection requires daily pre-open checks, weekly deep inspections, and hold integrity audits — scattered logs mean gaps that lawyers will find
Incident reports filled out inconsistently or after the fact create liability exposure that proper documentation would have prevented
Annual ACCT certifications, auto-belay inspection schedules, and t-nut tightness logs all run on separate timelines with no unified compliance calendar
04

Youth programs are your best revenue. Parent communication is your worst nightmare.

Youth climbing teams and programs can represent 20–30% of gym revenue — but they're operationally exhausting. Recurring enrollments, skill progression tracking, parent notifications, and multi-cohort scheduling across 3–4 sessions per week are a full-time coordination job that most gyms hand off to whoever has time.

Youth teams meet 3–4x per week with attendance minimums — tracking compliance and communicating with parents across multiple cohorts is unmanageable in email
Skill progression records (Climbing 101 → 201 → 301 → lead) live in coaches' heads, not in any system — so when a coach leaves, the history leaves with them
A missed parent email about a schedule change triggers complaint cascades; a missed enrollment deadline means families go to the gym down the street
Competition prep, homeschool programs, and adult clinics all have different pricing, capacity, and prerequisite requirements — and no unified calendar to manage them
Member retention & re-engagement intelligence

Catch the members
who are about to
disappear.

StokeOS monitors visit frequency for every active member and automatically flags those going silent — before they cancel. When a member hasn't been in for two weeks, your agent drafts a personalized re-engagement message referencing their climbing history and the classes they'd enjoy. No CRM setup. No manual list management.

  • Lapse detection — automatic flags when members hit 7, 14, or 21 days without a visit based on their typical visit pattern
  • Personalized win-back campaigns — agent drafts re-engagement messages referencing the member's history, current gym events, and their skill level
  • Day pass conversion — repeat day pass visitors are automatically identified and offered a membership trial at the right moment
  • Milestone recognition — one-year anniversaries, first lead climb, 100th visit — all tracked and auto-acknowledged to build belonging
  • Event-based re-engagement — uses upcoming comps, new route sets, and clinics as natural reasons to reach out to lapsed members
  • Churn reporting — weekly digest showing retention by membership tier, cohort age, and program type so you know what's working
Retention agent — this week 14 members at risk
312
Active members
14
At-risk (14+ days)
6
Critical (28+ days)
Jordan T. — Monthly unlimited
Last visit 22 days ago · Usually climbs 3x/week · Member 14 months
Critical
Priya K. — Youth program parent
Day pass × 6 this month · Lead cert eligible · No membership yet
Convert
Marcus D. — Annual member
Last visit 16 days ago · Renews in 43 days · Attended 3 comps
Re-engage
New route set drops Friday. I've drafted re-engagement messages for all 14 at-risk members using the route set as the hook. Jordan's message mentions the V5 cave section — their last 4 sessions focused on overhang. Want to review and send?
Safety compliance & operations management

Every harness.
Every inspection.
Every log — documented.

StokeOS tracks your full safety compliance lifecycle: harness retirement schedules, route inspection logs, incident reports, and certification calendars — all in one place, all auto-updated after each check. When a lawyer asks for your inspection history, you pull it in seconds instead of scrambling through binders.

  • Harness lifecycle tracking — rental harnesses logged by unit, usage count, inspection dates, and calculated retirement deadline
  • Route inspection scheduler — daily pre-open checklists, weekly deep inspections, and hold integrity audits with structured digital logging
  • Incident report workflow — structured templates auto-populated with date, location, and involved equipment; stored and searchable
  • Compliance calendar — annual ACCT certifications, auto-belay inspections, first aid cert renewals, and t-nut schedules all tracked in one view
  • Auto-belay unit management — service interval tracking, manufacturer maintenance logs, and out-of-service flagging built in
  • Audit-ready reporting — export a full inspection history for any date range, equipment unit, or wall section in one click
Safety & compliance dashboard 2 items need attention
48
Harnesses active
3
Retirement due soon
1
Overdue inspection
Harness #17 — Black Diamond Momentum
In service 4.2 years · 1,084 logged uses · Retirement threshold exceeded
Remove now
Auto-belay #3 — Trango Versa
Last serviced 182 days ago · Manufacturer interval: 180 days
Service overdue
Lead wall — weekly inspection
Completed Tuesday · All holds secure · 2 loose t-nuts logged & tightened
Up to date
ACCT facility certification renews in 67 days. I've added the renewal to your compliance calendar and drafted a pre-inspection checklist based on last year's audit findings. Want me to assign it to your head setter?

Less admin.
More sends.

StokeOS is in early access. Join the list and be the first climbing gym in your area to run member retention, safety compliance, and youth programs without the operational chaos.

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