Software for the academies that taught me jiu-jitsu.

1. Running a BJJ academy is a coaching job that’s been swallowed by an operations job.

The coaches I train under are extraordinary on the mat — but most of their week goes to chasing payments, juggling rosters across morning and evening classes, building the next eight weeks of curriculum in their head, and trying to remember which white belt earned their third stripe last Thursday. Generic gym SaaS doesn’t help; it’s built for the median CrossFit, where everyone takes the same class and “belt” doesn’t mean anything. You end up tagging stripes in a notes field and crossing your fingers at promotion night.

What we fix for gym owners:

• •Members. One roster — belts, stripes, lineage, and the coach who attested each rank. No more spreadsheet archaeology before promotion night.
• •Onboarding. A new member fills out one form on their phone and they’re on the schedule, billed by your gym via Stripe Connect, and visible to every coach the next morning.
• •Scheduling. Gi, No-Gi, Open Mat, Kids — first-class class types, not custom tags you have to remember to add.
• •Visibility into each student. Every member has a profile that tracks attendance, what they’ve drilled, time on the mat per position, and how long since their last promotion. A coach who’s never met them can walk in cold and know who’s been quietly grinding and who’s about to plateau.
• •Confident promotions. When you sit down to plan the next belt ceremony you see the full record — attendance, stripes already earned, who attested what, and how the student stacks up against the criteria you set. Not three spreadsheets and a 6am coffee.
• •Individual attention at scale. The platform surfaces who’s been showing up but stagnating, who’s about to hit a milestone, and who hasn’t been in for three weeks — so nobody falls through the cracks of a 200-member roster.

2. Practitioners are flying blind about their own training.

I’ve trained at five academies across two states. Every move means re-introducing yourself, re-paying for gear you already own, and trying to remember the exact date your last stripe was given — because your training history lives in your head and your coach’s spreadsheet, and the moment you leave that gym, it disappears. The student is the constant. The gym shouldn’t be the system of record for your jiu-jitsu.

We’re building the practitioner side as a first-class app — not a “members can log in” afterthought:

• •Your progress, your record. Belts, stripes, attendance, time on the mat — yours forever. Lineage and coach attestation intact across every gym you’ve trained at.
• •Strengths + gaps. Which positions you’ve drilled the most, where you’ve landed the most submissions, and where you’re underexposed. The view your coach should have given you — except now you have it too.
• •One inbox for back office. Memberships, payments, gear (gis, rashguards, mouthguards) — through your gym, not five separate vendors and a Venmo request from the front desk.
• •Move gyms without losing your record. When you walk into your next academy, your full history walks in with you. Your new coach sees a real practitioner, not a self-reported white-belt-with-an-asterisk.