Introducing Coach Assist: Smarter AI-Powered Coaching Starts Here

Lytx releases new AI-powered tool to help customers turn complex driver data into focused coaching conversations that save time, strengthen engagement, and support lasting behavior change. 

Safety coaches are under pressure to do more with less: support more drivers, review more data, and turn each coaching moment into a conversation that drives real change. To help, Lytx has released its Coach Assist tool, which is available now to all Lytx Driver Safety Program customers. 

Built into the coaching workflow, Coach Assist uses AI to turn driver performance data into clear insights and ready-to-use talking points. By turning complex performance data into clear guidance, Coach Assist helps coaches prepare faster, lead more impactful sessions, and strengthen the coach-driver connection. 

Less Prep. More Connection. 

Great coaching starts before the session. Coaches need to know what happened, what a driver is doing well, where support is needed, and how to guide the conversation in a way that builds trust. 

Coach Assist brings those insights together in seconds by surfacing key trends, strengths, improvement areas, and peer comparisons in a format that is easy to review and ready to use. 

What Coach Assist helps coaches do: 

• Prepare faster: Review AI-generated summaries of key performance issues and suggested talking points before each session. 
• Coach with confidence: Use clear, structured guidance to lead conversations that are focused, consistent, and actionable. 
• Keep drivers engaged: Balance coaching on risk with recognition of progress and strengths, helping drivers feel seen and supported. 
• Scale coaching quality: Give seasoned coaches and first-time mentors a consistent framework for delivering effective feedback. 
• Track improvement over time: Review driver progress and reinforce positive behavior with built-in performance insights. 

A Better Coaching Experience for Fleets and Drivers 

Coach Assist helps fleets scale coaching without losing the human connection that makes feedback stick. Coaches get time back. Drivers get clearer, more consistent guidance. Fleet leaders get a stronger path to safer performance across the organization. 
 

Early results point to meaningful impact. Based on select sampling of Lytx data, fleets saw: 

• 23% fewer risky coachable events per week after coaches used the tool 
• 87% of coaches rated Coach Assist more effective than their existing prep process.* 

Built for the Future of Driver Safety Coaching 

Coach Assist is a step forward for AI-supported fleet safety, turning complex data into practical coaching guidance while keeping the coach-driver relationship at the center. Because safer fleets are built one coaching conversation at a time, Coach Assist helps make each one count. 

The New Coaching Paradigm 

Coach Assist is part of Lytx’s broader evolution of safety coaching: a new paradigm that combines AI, driver ownership, positive reinforcement, and human coaching to improve safety at scale.  

The new paradigm introduces four key capabilities in 2026: 

• Coach Assist (available now) — Generative AI support that helps managers prepare faster for coaching conversations 
• Driver Self-Coaching (available now) — Mobile tools that help drivers review and learn from events 
• Balanced Feedback (available Q3/Q4) — Positive recognition that reinforces safe behaviors 
• New Driver Safety Score (available Q3/Q4) — Clearer insight to help drivers and managers focus on what matters most 

Together, these capabilities create a smarter coaching model: one that uses technology to strengthen human coaching, not replace it. Routine feedback becomes faster and more consistent. Driver engagement becomes more active and accountable. Manager-led conversations become more focused and meaningful. The result is a safety model that is automated where it should be and human where it matters most.  

Backed by Research 

Further supporting the importance of effective coaching methods, new research from UCSD shows that: 

• Manager-led coaching outperforms other methods, but coaches are often strained by time and logistical challenges.  
• Personalized coaching “enhances intrinsic motivation” for drivers and helps them to make long-term improvements.  
• Effective coaching “positively shapes organizational culture,” improves morale among drivers, and helps to reduce driver turnover. 
• Using AI to support in-person coaching “optimizes scalability and personalization, allowing managers to focus strategically.” 

Coach Assist is available now to all Lytx Driver Safety Program customers. To learn more, visit www.lytx.com/features/coach-assist 

*On average, based on select sampling of Lytx data. Actual results may vary.  

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