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AION / WELLNESS

AION Wellness — The operating system for modern fitness businesses.

A platform connecting members, memberships, payments, access and cash operations across the daily work of gyms.

Strategy · Product · UX/UI · Software Engineering · Cloud

Illustrative composition of the AION Wellness operational overview. Data shown is illustrative.

01 · Operational fragmentation

Everything happens in the same day. The information often lives in different places.

A member arrives at reception. The team finds their record, checks the membership, decides whether they can enter and records a payment when needed. At the end of the day, those movements need to match the cash close.

When each step depends on a separate record, a simple request turns into searches, checks and repeated data entry.

01Front deskWho arrived?
→
02MembershipIs it active?
→
03PaymentWhat was recorded?
→
04Cash closeDoes the day reconcile?

02 · Product opportunity

Turn related tasks into a coherent operation.

AION organizes work around the decisions teams make every day. Four principles guided the product from domain model to interface.

01Centralize operations

Keep members, memberships, payments, access and cash activity in the same context.

02Reduce friction

Shorten frequent searches and steps at reception and in administration.

03Make information actionable

Show validity, expirations, activity and payments where decisions happen.

04Design for growth

Support isolated organizations on a shared product foundation.

BEFORE AION

Records, statuses, payments and closeouts checked as separate parts of the day.

MembersMembershipsPaymentsCash close
→
WITH AION

An operational sequence with shared context and recorded movements.

AION · CONNECTED OPERATIONS

03 · Understand and model

We first defined how operational decisions relate to one another.

We designed the complete journey: identify the member, interpret the plan, record a renewal through payment, make an access decision and retain the movement for daily close.

MEMBEROne operational identity
PLAN + MEMBERSHIPTime, usage and validity
PAYMENT + ACCESSRecorded decisions

Currencies, payment methods, document types and access policies are configurable so the model can support each organization’s operation.

04 · Product walkthrough

The product follows the work from the front desk.

The member list brings search and status together. From the same operation, the team can assign or renew a membership by recording a payment, including split methods or configured currencies.

Illustrative composition of the member, membership and payment workflow. Data shown is illustrative.
01

FindSearch using the member information available.

02

ResolvePlan, validity and status visible in context.

03

RecordThe payment retains its link to the membership.

05 · Connected experience

Every movement contributes to a shared view of the operation.

Access records check-ins according to membership status and configured policy. Payments flow into the overview and daily cash close. The dashboard brings together today’s revenue, activity, active members, signups and expirations without rebuilding the picture by hand.

Illustrative composition of daily cash close and recorded payments. Data shown is illustrative.
RECEPTION

Search brings together the information needed to respond without checking parallel records.

ACCESS

The decision applies configured validity, grace period and cooldown, then retains the check-in.

OVERVIEW

Daily movements become information the team can act on.

CLOSE

Recorded payments organize cash review by method and currency.

MEMBERSMEMBERSHIPSPAYMENTSCHECK-INSDAILY CLOSE

06 · Multi-organization product

AION shares one product foundation while keeping each organization’s operating context isolated.

AION runs as a multi-tenant SaaS. Members, users, settings and operational movements belong to the organization that manages them.

The visual scope covers organization-level isolation; multi-location operation is outside this representation.

07 · System thinking

The interface is the visible layer of connected decisions.

We designed experience, workflows, rules and data as parts of the same product, so an action at reception retains its meaning through the overview and daily close.

08 · Technology by responsibility

Each technical decision supports a concrete product responsibility.

The architecture combines an SPA with a modular-monolith backend. That boundary keeps the domain cohesive and allows modules to evolve without distributing complexity too early.

INTERACTION AND STATEVue 3 · TypeScript · Pinia · Vue Query · PrimeVue · Chart.js

Operational workflows, interface state and visualization.

API, VALIDATION AND ACCESSPython 3.12 · FastAPI · Pydantic · JWT/RBAC

Contracts, validation and role-based permissions.

DOMAIN AND PERSISTENCEModular monolith · SQLAlchemy · Alembic · PostgreSQL

Cohesive rules, migrations and transactional data.

OPTIONAL FILESCloudflare R2

Storage for optional member photos.

Built to evolve

The foundation can support new capabilities when the product validates them.

FUTURE EXTENSIBILITY · NOT SHIPPED
  • Automation
  • Analytics
  • Integrations
  • Intelligence
  • New modules

09 · End-to-end involvement

Next Wrld stays with the product from the operational question through its evolution.

In AION, we work across strategy, product definition, experience, architecture, frontend, backend, data and infrastructure. The decisions stay connected throughout one process.

  1. 01Discover

    Understand the operation and its decisions.

  2. 02Shape

    Define product, scope and model.

  3. 03Build

    Design and implement the workflows.

  4. 04Launch

    Bring the system into operation.

  5. 05Evolve

    Learn from use and decide what follows.

10 · Concrete result

A daily operation with shared context.

Teams can find members, manage plans and memberships, record payments, resolve access, review check-ins and complete daily cash review within the same product.

The dashboard organizes the current state through today’s revenue, activity, active members, signups, expirations, seven-day series and payment breakdowns.

AION connects how the business operates with how the product is built. That continuity defines Next Wrld’s work: strategy, product, experience, engineering and cloud under one shared responsibility.

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