Daily check-ins for recovery coaches
Be with your clients one day at a time.
A breathalyzer test, a drug test, or a gratitude, sent to your client’s phone. No app to download: it all happens in Messages. You see each check-in the same day.
Free for up to 3 clients with gratitudes. Testing is $50 a month plus $25 per client.
No app. It works in Messages.
Your client already has what they need: the Messages app on their phone. Nothing to download, no account, no password to forget.
- Requests arrive as a text, by iMessage on iPhone or RCS on Android.
- The first text says only that it’s time for a check-in. Your client replies READY when they have a few private minutes.
- The details come back in the same conversation. They record in the phone’s browser from a one-time link, or send the video right in Messages.
- For a gratitude, they just text back an answer.
Today 3:12 PM
Daylight: it’s time for a check-in. Due by 4:00 PM. Reply READY when you have a few quiet minutes, and we’ll send the details.
READY
Say: harbor · quilt · seventeen. Record at the link, or send your video right here in Messages.
Video · 0:48
Daylight received and saved your video. Your coach will review it.
Three ways to check in
Pick what each client needs, and send it on a schedule or whenever you want to hear from them.
Breathalyzer test
Your client says three fresh words, blows, and shows the reading, all in one short video. Daylight notes what it saw. You make the call.
Drug test
Your client records an oral-fluid test from start to finish: the sealed kit, the swab, and the result. You read it and decide.
Gratitude
You ask a question, like “What are you grateful for today?” Your client texts back an answer. Some days that’s the check-in that matters most.
How a check-in works
A few minutes for your client. Nothing to install.
A quiet text
Your client gets a text saying it’s time for a check-in, and when it’s due. Nothing more.
They reply READY
When they have a few private minutes, they reply. Daylight sends the details and a link that works once.
They check in
A video for a breathalyzer or drug test, or a text answer for a gratitude.
You respond
Daylight keeps the original and waits for you. Nothing is cleared until you clear it.
Your side: one screen per check-in.
Check-ins that need your call wait in a list. Open one, watch the video, check the words, the reading and the timing, and make your call: cleared, not cleared, or unsure. Add a note if you want. Your decision and note are saved to the client’s record.
Nothing to hide, nothing to prove.
A check-in is an agreement between two people. Your client shows up each day. You see them and answer fairly. Start with the page that fits you.
The hard days are why you show up.
A clean 0.000 is easy. The check-in that matters is the one with glare on the screen, a device half out of frame, or a video sent forty minutes late.
Daylight keeps three things apart: what the device showed, what the video model noticed and when, and your decision with your note. If you change your mind, the change is saved as a new version. Anyone who reads the record later can see how each decision was made.
- Spoken words, issued 19:20
- meadow · copper · forty-one
- Reading on the device
- Not readable
- Device
- Glare across the display at 0:38
- 0:03Words heard. Face visible.
- 0:17Breath sample. Device partly out of frame.
- 0:38Final screen not readable.
- —Editing check: no indicators detected.
Coach note: “Screen unreadable. Retest requested for tonight with fresh words.”
Example data. Not a real client.
Start free. Pay when you test.
Gratitudes are free for up to 3 clients, with no card. When you want to test, the coach plan is $50 a month, and each client you test adds $25 a month for breathalyzer and drug tests, with 125 AI-reviewed breathalyzer check-ins included.
Clients use a breathalyzer they already own, or one you recommend. Any breathalyzer with a screen works, and Daylight reads the BACtrack C8 on its own. For drug tests, they use any oral-fluid kit you choose.
$150 a month
For one coach on Daylight, breathalyzer and drug tests included. Breathalyzers and kits are separate.
- Coach plan$50
- Testing, 4 × $25$100
The same clients elsewhere, per month
BACtrack View at its lowest plan ($79.99, device included). Soberlink at its lowest plan ($135) plus its lowest device fee ($19). From their pricing pages, October 30, 2026.
Every check-in can leave the building.
Open any test and export its record package. It holds the original video, unchanged, plus a printable summary, every version of the decision, the AI’s notes, the timeline, and a file that proves nothing was altered.
That’s the file a family, a program, or an attorney will ask for.
- Who sees the video
- Only the coach who enrolled the client; there’s no team access. Core Values Recovery’s administrator can view records but can’t change them, and every view is logged.
- Where the video goes
- Into private storage in the coach’s account. Breathalyzer videos also go to Google’s Gemini so the AI can make its notes, and Daylight asks Google to delete them afterward. Drug test videos never go to the AI.
- What it doesn’t claim
- It’s a working pilot. It isn’t clinically validated or covered by HIPAA, and it doesn’t replace lab or court-ordered testing. Every limit, in plain words
Who’s behind Daylight
Core Values Recovery, LLC, a recovery coaching company, builds and runs Daylight. Its coaches have used it with their own clients since September 2026. Questions go to a person: support@corevaluesrecovery.com.
Start with one client, one day.
Create an account, add a client, and walk through the first check-in together on a call. The guided setup never sends a message you haven’t seen.