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ReviewMyCoach is building the trust layer for sports. Every year, millions of athletes and parents choose teams, clubs, and programs based almost entirely on word of mouth, reputation, or limited information. Coaching quality plays one of the biggest roles in an athlete’s development, yet there is currently no centralized, transparent way to evaluate coaches across youth, high school, and college sports. We are solving this by creating a platform where athletes can leave reviews and feedback on their coaches—similar to RateMyProfessors, but built specifically for sports. The goal is to bring accountability, transparency, and better decision-making into the athlete development and recruiting process. The product is already live with a working website, an initial database of ~50,000 coaches, and early users and reviews on the platform. We are currently in the early-stage growth phase, focused on improving the product, expanding the dataset, and driving user adoption. Long term, ReviewMyCoach aims to become the standard platform athletes use when choosing coaches, teams, and programs—while also providing value to organizations, recruiters, and the broader sports ecosystem. This includes potential expansion into recruiting tools, premium insights, and data-driven decision-making for athletes and families. We are building in a massive, underserved market with no dominant player, and the opportunity to define an entirely new category within sports technology.

Our point-of-production tool automates pricing, categorization, and channel routing for used goods at the moment an item is processed. Our ecommerce listing tool takes it from there — AI-powered pricing and listing across online marketplaces. We serve 169+ store clients, and our customers see up to a 30% lift in sell-through and up to $3 more per item. We're a small team shipping fast against real operational deadlines. Every feature we build gets used the same week by people standing at a conveyor belt with a bin of donations in front of them.