Catapult Vector and STATSports are built for professional teams with sports science staff and enterprise procurement budgets.
The trainers who do measure run assessments by hand every few months, and between assessments nothing reaches the parent. They care about the data. Nothing has existed at a price that works for them.
We're college students building this on our own time and our own budget, heads-down through the summer. Every decision has to be the right one. We're not VC-backed. We're not running a Kickstarter. We're making it with our own hands and building it in public.
Handles the business side: customer discovery, go-to-market, and making sure we're building something trainers and coaches will actually pay for.
Owns the firmware, from the embedded code to the data path from sensor to a coach's screen. The one asking "will this data actually mean something."
Owns the pod hardware, from the board and sensors to the radio. The one asking "will this survive a season in a gym bag."
The performance gap between pro programs and youth basketball isn't about coaching quality. Pro coaches have data. Youth coaches and private trainers have instinct.
Slingshot is being built for the operator running a paid program on a budget they control. The skills trainer with fifteen clients on a standing weekly block. The academy with four coaches and a waitlist.
We're building the tool they should have had all along.
Slingshot has three founders. The people below are contributors, not founders, and they help across outreach, research, and brand as we work through the second board design.
Helps with trainer and academy outreach across Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, supporting our in-person presence with the operators we're building this for.
Reads the sports science literature with us and checks our summaries of it against the papers. The one asking "does the study actually say what we say it says."
Advises on media, brand, and how Slingshot shows up publicly.
That's by design. We're three founders trying to make a dent in an industry we love. We incorporated in July 2026. What we have is a hypothesis and the work to prove it out.
None of this is priced to make money. Between hardware, driving to gyms, and building reports by hand, we come out roughly even at best. What we're trading for is feedback from real trainers, real data from real sessions, and the chance to build the version operators actually want, instead of the one we'd build alone in a dorm room.
Revenue comes later. After the product earns it.
We drive to gyms across Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties. If you run sessions, we want to sit in on one and ask what belongs on the report.