Skill ladders
A ladder, not a feed
Every discipline has its own skill ladder, and the built-out ones run from Tier 0 to Tier 4. You always know the next skill, and the app is built around getting there, not around scrolling.
Learn a craft. See how far you have come.
Follow the disciplines you practice, climb each one's skill ladder at your own pace, and grow a companion as you go. Learn in person and online from people who practice the craft, and when a teacher has seen you do a skill, they can sign it off. Shibari, fitness, yoga, pilates, calisthenics, running and more.
- Free account, no invite needed
- One companion, a habitat per discipline
- Your cards travel with you
How Arsclepius helps you
Your companion
A reason to show up
You have one companion, and every discipline you follow gives it a habitat. A habitat follows your practice in the communities you join there. A small companion with an honest memory.
Courses and sessions
Learn online, transfer in person
Courses cover theory and drills at your own pace. Sessions and workshops are where the craft transfers. Both feed the same XP and levels.
Browse coursesCards that travel
Your skills live on your profile, not inside any one class. Move city or switch instructor and a new teacher sees what you know and who checked it.
A teacher's word, when they have seen it
An instructor signs off a skill they have seen you do, and the card carries their name. The platform marks the first two tiers on its own as your XP comes in, and the card says they were reached through activity, not verified. Professionals start at Tier 2 in what they teach, shown as a starting tier, not a sign-off. Every tier above that needs an instructor, and nobody can sign their own.
Your people
Say what you practice and who you are looking for: a training partner, a rope partner, someone to go to an event with. Buy tickets to workshops and jams, or join an instructor's experience.
Find an event or classComing soon: your companion, as your helper
We are teaching your companion to help. Ask it in your own words and it finds what you're looking for, or takes you to the page that does it. Nothing is booked or published until you tap it yourself.
When you come to things
Ask what is on this weekend and it shows the events and classes by date, each with a door to its page. It lists; it never ranks or recommends anyone.
When you host
Ask how refunds or check-in work and you get the app's own answer, with a door to the page.
Yours to turn on
The AI part is optional and for adult accounts. Without it, each of these is still a button in the app: Explore for finding things, and Help for how the app works.
Not live yet. We will say so here when it is.
The systems you can use
Each one is live today unless it says it opens soon. Open one to see how you use it.
Disciplines and skill ladders
One ladder per discipline, every skill placed on a tier. Shibari is the deepest today; the fitness family, yoga, pilates, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, freediving, sexual health and polyamory have full Tier 0 to Tier 4 ladders too. Other disciplines start with a seeded set of beginner skills and can grow.
How you use it: Disciplines and skill ladders
Pick your disciplines at signup, or add one later by joining a teacher's experience in it. In Settings, mark the skills you are working on as Focus and pin up to four as Showcase; Showcase leads your Home screen, and Explore leans on Focus when it recommends events and courses.
XP and levels
Practice earns XP, and XP moves your level inside each skill. Practice logs, drills from a practice sheet, online lessons and checked-in events all count.
How you use it: XP and levels
Log a practice session from Home, finish a course lesson, or check in at an event with your ticket. The level moves on its own inside a tier; past the first two tiers, an instructor's sign-off opens the next one.
Your companion and its habitats
One companion, which starts as a Seedling, with a habitat in each discipline you follow. Each habitat follows your practice in the communities you join in that discipline.
How you use it: Your companion and its habitats
Join a community in a discipline and practice the skills it teaches, and your habitat there grows. What your companion's later stages look like is yours to find.
Practice sheets and logs
Structured practice: drills with sets, reps, tempo and load, interval timers for work and rest, and session times, in four formats built for different kinds of training. Scores are kept.
How you use it: Practice sheets and logs
Work through a sheet your instructor has assigned to you, or log a session of your own. Each logged drill lands on the matching skill card.
Courses
Online lessons with video, text and drills, built by instructors on the platform.
How you use it: Courses
Browse courses without an account. Start a free one or buy a paid one once you have an account, work through the lessons at your pace, and the XP goes to the same skills as your in-person work.
Events and tickets
Workshops, jams, classes and shows with tickets, Stripe payment and QR check-in. Paid tickets can be bought without an account, except for 18+ events.
How you use it: Events and tickets
Find an event in Explore, buy the ticket, show the QR code at the door. A checked-in hands-on event counts toward your XP; a show you watched is recorded apart and adds none.
Verified cards
A card is one skill. Each verified tier on it names the instructor who signed it. The platform marks Tier 0 and Tier 1 from your own XP and shows them as reached through activity, never as verified. Professionals start at Tier 2 in what they teach, shown as a starting tier, not a sign-off. Every tier above that needs an instructor's sign-off.
How you use it: Verified cards
Join an instructor's experience. When you can do the skill, they verify it, and it appears on your profile with their name on it.
People search
Find people by what they practice and what they are seeking. It is opt-in per discipline, it never uses your location, and it sits behind the one-time 18+ ID check. The ID check opens soon.
How you use it: People search
Set what you practice and what you are looking for in Settings under Looking for. Search opens once you pass the ID check, which opens soon.
Messages
Direct messages, and a group chat inside each experience you join. Message bodies are encrypted at rest on our servers.
How you use it: Messages
Open a conversation from a profile, or from the Group Chat button on an experience you have joined.
Your account, your data
Two-factor sign-in, privacy settings, and a self-service delete that closes your account and strips your name and details from it.
How you use it: Your account, your data
All of it lives in Settings. None of it needs an email to support.
Straight answers
The limits, before you find them yourself.
A card is a word, not a certificate
A verified card is one instructor's word about one skill. It is not a safety certificate, and it does not make anyone qualified to teach.
Not every level is verified
XP and levels move with your own practice logs, courses and events. Only a tier an instructor signed carries a name. The two are shown differently on purpose.
No 'near me' for people
People search matches on practice and seeking, never on distance. Events have a radius filter; people do not.
Some crafts are adult
Items that involve nudity or kink are marked 18+ one at a time, never a whole discipline, and sit behind an age gate. That content stays hidden until you complete a one-time ID check, which opens soon. A date of birth alone does not unlock it. If anything you see is wrong, report it from the card's menu.
If a line on this page does not match what you see in the app, tell us at Robert@Arsclepius.com and we will fix it.
Questions people ask
Does it cost anything to be a student?
No. An account is free and needs no invite, and there is nothing to subscribe to. You pay only when you buy something: a ticket, a lesson, a course, a session pack, or a subscription an instructor sells. Purchases carry a platform fee. When it is added on top it is its own line at checkout; when the host has absorbed it, the price you see is the whole price. Either way nothing is hidden. The rate is on the pay page.
Do I need to know anything before I start?
No. Every ladder starts at Tier 0. Pick the disciplines you want, and the first skills are the ones a beginner learns first.
What if I only want to watch?
That is welcome too, and you do not have to be a student for it. Browse without an account, buy most paid tickets as a guest, and follow performers to hear about their new shows. What you watch is kept apart from what you practice. The page for fans and audiences covers how it works.
Which disciplines are there?
Shibari has the deepest ladder today. Fitness, yoga, pilates, powerlifting, strength training, Olympic weightlifting, calisthenics, kettlebell, jump rope, running, cycling, swimming, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, freediving, sexual health and polyamory have full ladders too. Aerial, muay thai, scuba and others are seeded and can grow.
What happens if I stop for a while?
Your cards and the tiers you reached stay. After about a month away, the level inside a tier drifts down a step a week, and climbs back once you practice again. Your companion's habitat there follows your practice in the communities you join. Nothing is deleted for inactivity.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. It runs in the browser on phone and desktop, and you can install it to your home screen like an app, with push notifications if you want them.
Who can see my profile?
Privacy settings in your account control what your profile shows. Appearing in people search is a separate opt-in, set per discipline under Looking for, and it is off by default.