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Founding-cohort pricing: 25% off for life when you join the first 12 academies. 58% filled.

Built for BJJ academies · onboarding alpha partners

The first gym software that knows what a stripe is.

The operating system BJJ academies actually want.

Belt tracking, stripe ceremonies, on-mat coach mode, and a native iOS + Android member app — built for jiu-jitsu, not generic gyms.

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Free during the alpha for founding academies. We onboard a few at a time — apply and we’ll set you up personally.

2-minute tour

See MatCommunity run a real academy.

Belt promotions, the coach-mode tablet, member check-in, billing — the whole loop in two minutes.

2-minute product tour

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Founding academy Jay Pages Jiu-Jitsu & MMA (Tempe AZ · Caio Terra Association · 3 locations) — joining 11 more in the alpha cohort.

Founding academies get 25% off for life + a direct line to the founder. Built by a BJJ practitioner — Stephen Ternes. Your data is yours, always.

Built around women’s BJJ programs too — see how MatCommunity supports women’s programs →

The founding cohort

  • Jay Pages Jiu-Jitsu & MMA
  • Founding cohort — to be announced
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Founding-cohort academies get the alpha free. Apply to join the first six.

Pricing at a glance

Five tiers, from solo coach to network.

Each tier rolls up the previous. Start free, switch any month, keep your data on the way in and on the way out.

$8.99 / extra member when you exceed your cap, no auto-upgrade.

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The receipts as of 2026-05-27

  • 600+

    BJJ sessions logged

    Mat-time sessions tracked across founding-cohort gyms since alpha launch.

  • 1

    Founding academy live

    Jay Pages Jiu-Jitsu & MMA (3 Tempe AZ locations, Caio Terra Association).

  • 7 of 12

    Alpha slots filled

    Founding-cohort capacity. Closes when slot 12 signs.

Coach Mode

Run class from the mat, not the office.

On-mat tablet view. Take attendance, give a stripe, mark a sparring partner — from a tablet, with chalk on your hands, in 30 seconds between rounds. The thing no generic-gym software can give you, because they don’t know what a stripe is.

“I built Coach Mode because my coach asked for it. We were running attendance on a paper clipboard and stripes on a whiteboard. Every gym I’ve trained at has the same two tools. So I built the one I wanted.”
— Stephen Ternes, founder · brown belt · Tempe AZ

BJJ Nomad

Train at every partner academy. One membership.

Travel for work. Compete out of state. Move cities and not lose your tribe. Your home gym's reciprocity network is right there in the app — drop in at any partner academy, charge the drop-in fee to your card, log the session against your record, and walk out with the same belt history showing up at both gyms.

No generic-gym software does this because none of them know what a reciprocity affiliation looks like in BJJ.

Why coaches switch

Built around how BJJ academies actually run.

Every feature exists because a coach asked for it. No generic gym bloat, no enterprise feature you’ll never use.

  • Payments go straight to your bank

    Charge members from your own Stripe account — your branding, your payouts, no MatCommunity skim. Built-in payment plans, household billing, dunning, discounts.

    • Powered by Stripe Connect
    • PCI-DSS Level 1 — we never see card data
    • Payouts to your bank on Stripe's schedule
  • Real BJJ belts, real ceremonies

    Track every stripe, every promotion, every lineage chain. Generate signed certificates before the ceremony, not after.

    • All IBJJF ranks: kids (13 ranks), teen, adult white→black + black-belt degrees
    • Promotion-night flow: roster → certificates → coach signature → member push
    • Not 'skills with stars'
  • An app your members will actually open

    Native iOS + Android. Members track their progress, find drilling partners, earn promotion badges — on their phone. Not a web portal in a WebView.

    • Workout log + strength-training history
    • Drilling partner finder by belt, weight, gender, gi/no-gi
    • Promotion badges + belt progression
  • Coach Mode on the mat

    Tablet-first interface for taking attendance and giving stripes from the floor. The thing nobody else ships.

    • On-mat attendance in 2 taps
    • Stripe + ceremony directly from the tablet
    • Coach notes synced to member profiles
  • BJJ-native curriculum

    Position-based syllabus with cycles, lineage tracking, and a seed catalog you can extend. From guard passing to back takes, organized the way coaches actually teach.

    • Position-based: guard, pass, mount, back, side control
    • Cycles for fundamentals vs advanced
    • Lineage chain back to Helio Gracie
  • Multi-location ready

    One academy or ten. Each location gets its own schedule, kiosk, POS, and brand color — without double-entry.

    • Per-location schedule + kiosk + POS
    • Cross-location member transfer with belt + lineage history intact
    • Affiliation roll-up reporting on Affiliate tier
  • Waivers + contracts that sign themselves

    Send a waiver via text or email. Member signs on phone in 30 seconds. We store the signed PDF + IP + timestamp + SHA-256 hash. Insurance asks for proof? You have it.

    • Built-in e-sign with SHA-256 audit trail
    • Parent-signs-for-kid flow for kids programs
    • PDF stored forever, downloadable anytime

What you ship by day one

A real week, scheduled in 10 minutes.

One sample week from a 3-coach academy. Members see this in their app the moment you publish it.

Mon

3 classes
  • 6:00am · Fundamentals

    Coach Jay

  • 12:00pm · No-gi

    Coach Sam

  • 7:00pm · All-levels

    Coach Jay

Wed

3 classes
  • 6:00am · Fundamentals

    Coach Jay

  • 5:30pm · Kids 6–12

    Coach Maria

  • 7:00pm · Advanced

    Coach Jay

Fri

3 classes
  • 6:00am · Open mat

    Coach Sam

  • 5:30pm · Kids 6–12

    Coach Maria

  • 7:00pm · Competition prep

    Coach Jay

Alpha cohort

7 of 12 alpha slots are filled.

Founding academies get 25% off for life, direct access to the founder, and a roadmap vote on every feature we ship in 2026.

  • Coming soonApp Store
  • Coming soonGoogle Play

14-day trial on every paid tier. Free forever for academies with 10 or fewer members. Cancel anytime. Your data stays yours.