You paid for the lesson.
Keep what it taught you.
Your Dressage Lessons turns the recording of a lesson or clinic ride into a structured summary you can actually train from. Here is how it works, and why we built it this way.
Why riders lose their lessons
Think about your last lesson. You were riding it, not writing it down. Your attention was where it belonged: on your horse, your position, the exercise in front of you. Your instructor said dozens of useful things in forty-five minutes, and by the time you had untacked, cooled out, and driven home, most of them had faded into "we worked on the canter, I think."
Clinics are worse. You invest real money in a ride with a clinician you see twice a year, and the insights evaporate at exactly the same rate as a Tuesday lesson.
The instruction was excellent. The problem is that riding and remembering are competing jobs, and riding should win. So we built the remembering part.
How it works
Record your ride
A phone near your instructor, a Pivo virtual lesson, a small recorder, a friend with a camera at a clinic. Whatever you have works, as long as the microphone can hear the voice.
Not sure about your setup? The Recording Guide covers every common one.
Upload it
Audio or video, no account needed. Just your email, your horse's name, and who taught the lesson. We transcribe the recording, including who said what, so your instructor's words are treated as instruction and everything else is not.
See your Capture Report, before you pay a cent
We show you exactly how much of your instructor's voice we could hear: how many minutes, how clearly, and where in the lesson the audio held up or dropped out. Then, and only then, you decide whether to buy.
If the recording is not good enough for a summary worth paying for, we tell you so and we do not charge you. Ever.
Get your summary
Delivered on the spot, sent to your inbox, and saved at a private link you can return to from any device. Share it with your trainer, pin it to the tack room wall, read it before your next ride.
What is in the summary
Six sections, built to be trained from rather than filed away:
- Your lesson, in a paragraph. The through-line of the ride and one pattern worth carrying forward.
- What your instructor worked on. The movements and exercises, in your instructor's emphasis, not a generic list.
- Cues and corrections. Including the ones that recurred. When your instructor comes back to the outside rein five times, that is the lesson inside the lesson.
- The likely why. Our read on the purpose behind the work, offered as a starting point for you to confirm or correct. Understanding why an exercise was chosen is what lets you school it well on your own.
- Three takeaways. Prioritized, concrete, and sized for solo schooling before your next lesson.
- One thing to try next ride. A single doable item, tied to a real moment in your lesson.
Why it is not just a transcript
Arena audio is messy and lesson language is its own dialect. Our coach was built for both. It knows the vocabulary, from half halt to renvers to the difference between piaffe and passage, so it reads through wind, hoofbeats, and the transcription errors that turn riding terms into gibberish. It distinguishes your instructor's voice from yours and from the conversation at the rail. And it summarizes only what your instructor actually said. When a section has little to stand on, it stays short and honest rather than padding itself with plausible-sounding filler.
Personal conversation on the recording, and there is always some, never appears in your summary. Instruction in, chatter out.
The honest parts
We do not sell guesswork. If your recording did not capture enough of your instructor, we refuse the sale and point you to a better setup for next time. If it captured most but not all, we say so plainly before you buy, and your summary is honest about the gaps.
Your audio is deleted within 48 hours of transcription. We keep your transcript and summary so your link keeps working. That is all.
AI can misread a lesson. Trust your own sense of your ride and your instructor's actual words first. The summary is a training aid, not a replacement for either of them.
What it costs
Your next lesson is coming. This time, keep it.
Summarize your lesson