Three Coaching Platforms Closed. One of Them Had No Download Button.
Nudge Coach, Practice.do and Profi all went dark inside eight months — and the differences in how they died are a lesson in vendor risk.

Three coaching platforms died in eight months, and the thing that separated the survivors' data from the lost data wasn't the shutdown date. It was whether there was an export file.
Nudge Coach closed on 30 April 2025, Practice.do went offline on 3 November 2025 with roughly two weeks of notice, and Profi ended access on 31 December 2025. All three were sold as the complete back office for a coaching business. Profi had raised $8M and Practice.do $10M.
Practice.do: fast, but with a file
In October 2025, CEO Julien Smith announced the platform would shut down. There was no acquisition, no platform pivot, no read-only mode. An acquisition process that might have kept it alive fell through, and the team chose to wind down rather than keep operating at a loss.
When a platform closes, client portals, booking links, and contracts go with it. But coaches who moved in time had something to carry: an export with the client list and downloaded files, while session notes and portal content left behind are most likely unrecoverable. Competitor CoachAccountable says its automated importer for Practice.do export files was ready one day after the doors were bolted on November 3rd.
Profi: no file at all
Profi's notice was procedural. The company said it was being acquired and that customers would have full access through December 31, 2025, after which the platform would be "retired in its current form."
The problem showed up underneath that sentence. CoachAccountable, which had just built the Practice.do importer, looked for a Profi equivalent and reported: "It seems there is NO WAY TO EXPORT YOUR DATA out of Profi" — which meant no automatic import mechanism could be built for Profi refugees at all. The same post describes the ending as abrupt: short notice for the broader customer base, and a final day when logins simply stopped working that was never announced in advance.
The outcome was predictable. Profi's users lost session notes they had not pulled out.
The clock that already ran out
If you want to know how these deadlines actually land, look at EdApp. SafetyCulture retired the platform on 31 March 2026, affecting more than a million users and 70,000-plus organisations. Migration requests closed on March 20, and the data export window shut on 20 April 2026. Customers who moved to SafetyCulture's free plan kept their courses but lost their completion records; preserving historical training data required a paid annual plan. Completion history is the record auditors ask for.
One caveat worth flagging: coverage disagrees on what exactly died. Several comparison articles claim SC Training is shutting down; one vendor analysis argues it is not — that legacy EdApp retired and SC Training is the surviving, actively sold product. Either way, the deletion was real.
Five things you should be able to pull today
Not next quarter. Today, while your login still works.
- Client and student list with emails, as a CSV.
- Payment and invoice history.
- Session notes and intake forms — the thing Profi users lost.
- Course content: video files, slides, SCORM packages where they exist.
- Progress and completion records, which are usually the first casualty of a free-tier migration.
If any of those five has no button, you have your answer about that vendor. And test the export before you cancel anything: Kajabi reviewers report being asked to pay to retrieve customer data after cancelling, and Kajabi removes data 90 days later. Circle, Mighty Networks and Skool all export member lists and none bulk-exports posts.
The conversation isn't coming with you. The client list should.
Sources
- Best Practice Management Software for Coaches (2026) — Coachful
- Practice.do Shut Down: Best Alternatives for Coaches in 2026 — Paperbell
- Profi.io Is Shutting Down: Here's Where to Take Your Coaching Business — Paperbell
- Profi.io is Shutting Down, Anyone Need an Alternative? — CoachAccountable
- 10 Best Profi Alternatives for Coaches in 2026 (After the Shutdown) — Life Coach Hub
- The best coaching platforms for creators and online coaches in 2026 — Eden
- EdApp Is Shutting Down in March 2026 — Here's What You Need to Know — Overpass
- SC Training (EdApp) Has Shut Down: Where to Move Your Team's Training — Corganize
- Best Microlearning Platforms 2026: Architecture-First Guide — QuikAuthor
- Group Coaching Platforms 2026: 9 Compared on Cost — Coachful
- EdApp (SC Training) Alternatives: 6 Best LMS Platforms in 2026 — ProProfs Training
Editor’s note: Three dead platforms in eight months, and the only variable that mattered was whether an export file existed. Ran it because every reader's business is sitting inside someone else's database.
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