Playbook wires your stadium's sensor infrastructure into the coaching decisions that determine outcomes. Vendor-neutral. Process-transparent. Results that appear in the table.
Every engagement follows the same four-phase arc. We publish the methodology because the process is the product — you shouldn't need to trust us, you should be able to verify us.
We map every data source your organisation currently touches — GPS units, video platforms, wearables, manual entry — and identify the gaps between what's collected and what reaches a decision-maker.
Most clubs have 6–12 active data vendors. Fewer than 30% of the data those vendors generate ever surfaces in a coaching conversation. The audit tells you exactly where the signal is dying.
One Premier League club discovered 14 months of positional data sitting unqueried in a vendor's cloud. The audit found it in 48 hours.
We design the data architecture that should exist — a vendor-neutral blueprint showing what connects to what, where the single source of truth lives, and how queries reach coaches in under 60 seconds.
Architecture isn't about buying new tools. It's about making the tools you already own function as a coherent system. We've never recommended a platform we have a commercial relationship with.
A Bundesliga club reduced their pre-match data preparation time from 4 hours to 22 minutes after architecture rationalisation.
We execute the integration — connecting APIs, building transformation pipelines, and stress-testing data quality before a single coach sees a number. We work with your existing vendors, not against them.
Integration is where most analytics projects fail. Not from bad intentions — from under-specified contracts and engineers who've never watched a match. Our team has done both.
A national federation integrated 7 vendor platforms into a single coaching interface in 11 weeks. Zero vendor replacements required.
Analytics that don't change what happens in training don't count. We train coaching staff, not just analysts — building the habit of asking data questions and the fluency to interpret answers.
The final metre is the hardest. A head coach who trusts a sprint-load threshold will rotate differently. A fitness coach who can query the warehouse at 7am owns the morning briefing. Translation is where insight becomes competitive advantage.
Clubs that complete Phase 4 show 2.3× higher data-query frequency from coaching staff after 90 days versus clubs that stop at integration.
A Playbook Tech Audit maps your entire data infrastructure, identifies the gaps between collection and decision, and delivers a prioritised integration roadmap. No vendor bias. No upsell pressure.
48-hour turnaround on scheduling
Works across all major vendor stacks
47 pages on vendor-neutral architecture patterns, data governance for elite sport, and the exact questions to ask before signing any analytics contract.
No vendor affiliation. No sales sequence. One email, one resource.