A low brace is the reflexive paddle stroke that catches you before you tip. Like throwing an arm out on dry land: quick, instinctive, and the reason nothing else has to happen.
Two twenty-second sprints inside a ten-minute ride, on the smart trainer you already own. Applies the load at the right moment and records what the trainer reports.
Paint where it hurts on an anatomical plate. Leave with plain prose for your doctor, physio or chat assistant. It describes. It does not diagnose.
Press a button, say the thing, and it lands in the right note in your Obsidian vault. The app reads one line back so you know it did. Your notes stay ordinary markdown.
Low Brace Labs is run by Geoff Nicol in Victoria, with collaborators as a project calls for them. Each product started as a problem someone here had and could not buy a fix for: a trainer app that runs one protocol correctly, a memory for what hurt, and when, for the ones that stay, and a note that takes dictation without a screen in the way.
The test for every one of them is the low brace: can you reach for it without thinking, and does it catch you the first time. Software first, because that is what the shop is set up for. Physical things when one is worth making well.