F45 Training franchise: AI Adoption Score 63/100
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F45 Training (Fitness / Wellness, headquartered in Australia) operates 1,357 units with +20.1% (2021→22) year-over-year unit growth, and scores 63/100 on the FranchisePulse AI Adoption Score for Q3 2026 — ranking #29 of 58 tracked franchise systems.
Functional-fitness franchise whose workouts are programmed centrally and delivered to studios digitally. The network has contracted sharply — 2,100 studios at the end of 2022, about 1,500 in April 2025, and 1,357 in Entrepreneur's 2026 Franchise 500 — after F45 delisted from the NYSE in 2023 and moved under a new parent, FIT House of Brands, in 2025. The growth figure shown is the last year-over-year pair the company itself disclosed (2021 to 2022) and does not describe today.
F45 Training Holdings voluntarily delisted from the NYSE and deregistered its securities in August–September 2023
F45 Training Holdings Inc. — Press release Ex-99.1, filed with SEC (Aug 14, 2023) ↗Officialreviewed 2026-09-15System-wide Total Studios = 2,100 as of Dec 31, 2022 (used in summary's 'about 2,100 in 2022' figure)
F45 Training Holdings Inc. — Form 10-K FY2022 (filed Oct 23, 2023), SEC EDGAR ↗Officialreviewed 2026-09-15F45's 2026 Franchise 500 unit count of 1,357 (used in summary's 'roughly 1,357' figure)
Entrepreneur — Franchise 500 2026, F45 Training franchise profile ↗Press · cross-checkreviewed 2026-09-15F45's use of Fiveonefour's Aurora AI agents since April 2025 (used in summary's AI sentence)
Fiveonefour — "Fiveonefour Unveils Aurora AI Agents and Partners with F45 Training to Automate Data Engineering" (Apr 3, 2025), PR Newswire ↗Press · cross-checkreviewed 2026-09-15F45 now operates under new parent company FIT House of Brands, launched March 2025 (used in summary's 'new parent FIT House of Brands' clause)
FIT (Functional Inspired Training) — Newsroom: "F45 Training Launches FIT: A New Era of Holistic Fitness and Wellness" (Mar 2025) ↗Officialreviewed 2026-09-15| Sector | Fitness / Wellness |
| Headquarters | Australia |
| Units (approx.) | 1,357 F45 Training Holdings Inc. — Form 10-K FY2022 (filed Oct 23, 2023), SEC EDGAR ↗Officialreviewed 2026-09-15Fiveonefour — "Fiveonefour Unveils Aurora AI Agents and Partners with F45 Training to Automate Data Engineering" (Apr 3, 2025), PR Newswire ↗Press · cross-checkreviewed 2026-09-15Entrepreneur — Franchise 500 2026, F45 Training franchise profile ↗Press · cross-checkreviewed 2026-09-15 |
| Unit growth YoY | +20.1% (2021→22) |
| Region | APAC |
| Founded | 2013 |
| AI Adoption Score | 63/100 · rank #29/58 |
| Figures last reviewed | 2026-09-15 |
AI Adoption Score breakdown
EDITORIAL METRIC · METHODOLOGY: franpulse.ai/data/franchise-ai-adoption-rate
How to read F45 Training’s score
At 63/100, F45 Training sits 4 points above the Fitness / Wellness average of 59 and 0 above the 58-system index average of 63. It ranks #2 of 4 in its sector on AI, and #3 by unit count, ahead on AI of its size.
Operations AI leads at 66 and data infrastructure trails at 58, a 8-point spread. Operations AI is 8 ahead of data infrastructure. Unit growth of +20.1% (2021→22) is 13.7 points above the sector median of 6.4%.
| Pillar | F45 Training | Fitness / Wellness avg | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operations AI | 66 | 59 | +7 |
| Marketing AI | 62 | 60 | +2 |
| Training & Support AI | 64 | 56 | +8 |
| Data infrastructure | 58 | 61 | -3 |
FITNESS / WELLNESS AVERAGES · 4 SYSTEMS · INDEX SUB-SCORES ONLY
Where F45 Training uses AI today
- —F45's engineering team used Fiveonefour's Aurora AI agents from April 2025 to rebuild the analytics behind its LionHeart heart-rate platform — the vendor's release claims 50% lower data-infrastructure cost and 10x faster development. F45 calls LionHeart itself an algorithm, not AI