NEXTUP provides a verification layer for youth and collegiate athletes by using AI to validate physical measurements recorded via video. This verified data increases athlete visibility, making them significantly more likely to receive scouting attention and offers from college programs. Athletes control sharing permissions for their accurate biometric data directly through the mobile application.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Athlete measurement data used in recruiting is often inaccurate or unverified, leading to many high‑school and college players being overlooked by coaches and scouts. This lack of reliable metrics hampers talent identification and reduces athletes’ chances of receiving scholarship offers.
Solution
NEXTUP provides a mobile verification platform that uses smartphone video capture combined with computer‑vision AI to automatically measure key athletic dimensions such as height, wingspan, hand size, arm length, vertical jump and 40‑yard dash time. Athletes record themselves, the AI validates the metrics against calibrated standards, and the verified results can be shared selectively with coaches through a secure portal. By presenting trustworthy data, athletes gain greater visibility in recruiting databases, and coaches receive consistent, comparable measurements that streamline talent evaluation.
Target Audience
The primary users are high‑school and collegiate athletes seeking recruitment exposure, and the secondary users are college coaches and scouting staff who evaluate prospective talent.
Features
- iOS app that guides users through step‑by‑step video recording of each metric
- Proprietary computer‑vision and deep‑learning models that extract precise measurements from raw video footage
- Automated validation against sport‑specific calibration datasets to ensure accuracy
- Secure, role‑based sharing controls allowing athletes to grant coaches access to verified data only
- Coach portal with searchable database of verified athlete profiles and exportable CSV reports
- End‑to‑end encryption and HIPAA‑style data protection for all stored measurement records
- Cloud‑hosted analytics pipeline that aggregates metrics for longitudinal performance tracking