We came together in late March 2026. Since then: scope locked, a full sensor pod designed, fabbed, hand-assembled, and killed. We're on the second design now, and we're in gyms asking trainers what belongs on the report before we build it.
We designed a sensor pod, had it fabbed, assembled the radio module by hand, and lost the last working board in July. That generation is finished. What it left behind is a schematic we understand, a component set already sourced and in-house, and a specific list of what the next board changes, which is what the second design is being drawn from.
While that's in respin, we're in gyms. We're asking trainers what they already tell parents, what they watch for mid-session, and what would actually be worth reading on a one-page report. We'd rather build that page off what trainers say than off what we assume.
No academy gets a start date until one full session runs end to end on a real arm: record, offload, report in a parent's hands. That's the standard we're holding ourselves to, and it's why this page shows gates instead of promised months.
Karl, Ryan, and Kai come together around a shared idea: a youth basketball performance tracker priced for the people who train youth basketball. Three founders, one thesis: the analytics pro teams pay for shouldn't be the only option for the next generation of basketball.
Basketball-first scope committed. Session Load Score defined as the hero metric. Upper-arm compression sleeve locked as the form factor, the cultural fit for basketball. Ryan and Kai deep into PCB design, schematics, and firmware. Aaron driving trainer and coach outreach across Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.
PCB designed and fabbed at JLCPCB. Boards came back, the radio module went on by hand, and the last working board died in July. Four months from schematic to a dead board on the bench. That wasn't the plan. It's still the fastest way we could have learned what the next board has to change, and we'd rather find it now than in someone's gym.
Two things running at once. Ryan and Kai are on a new schematic and board layout. Karl is in gyms asking trainers how they talk to parents today, what they watch for in a kid mid-session, and what they'd actually put on a page that goes home. The second design gets built against those answers instead of our guesses.
Adults wear the pod first. The full loop, timed: session, data off the pod, report in a parent's hands.
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. The report gets built off what trainers actually tell us.
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