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Sports, Esports & Fitness

From team sheet to turnstile, one connected record for your club

Squads, training, match days, fans, travel and gym members on one sign-in, with athletes in control of their own data.

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AthleteBridge(opens AthleteBridge in a new tab)MyBodyShield(opens MyBodyShield in a new tab)ComradeCircle(opens ComradeCircle in a new tab)EventfullyManaged(opens EventfullyManaged in a new tab)Kadaikodi(opens Kadaikodi in a new tab)GGNomad(opens GGNomad in a new tab)FluidGrids(opens FluidGrids in a new tab)BigConsole(opens BigConsole in a new tab)

The problem

Why running a sports organization is harder than it looks

Clubs, academies, esports teams and gyms run on group chats, spreadsheets and volunteers' evenings: squads named on half the facts, load nobody sees, match-day queues and fans who drift away unnoticed.

A club, academy, esports organization or gym is several businesses sharing one set of volunteers: a coaching operation, a youth-welfare responsibility, a small events company every other weekend, a retailer at half-time and a membership organization that lives on renewals. Each part has picked up its own tool, from a squad spreadsheet and a ticket link to group chats, a card reader and a class-booking app, and none of them know about the others.

Much of the work falls on people who also coach, referee or wash the kit. The pressure points are predictable: the squad has to be named before the weekend, athletes train in more places than the club can see, match days compress a week's takings into three hours, tournaments bring travel and chaperoning, and fans and parents drift when communication is scattered. Esports teams feel the same pressures, with bootcamps and LAN finals in place of away games.

What helps is not another app but a shared record: the fixture scheduled once and reused by the people who pick the squad, sell the tickets, run the concourse and book the travel, with athletes in control of their own data and the committee reading the same numbers as the coaches.

Who this is for

  • Club general manager or secretary

    One record for fixtures, members, match days and money, instead of a dozen spreadsheets, exports and group chats.

  • Head coach or head of academy

    Naming the squad from current facts, tracking development, and talking to players and parents through one owned channel.

  • Strength and conditioning coach

    Seeing the load athletes actually carry, including training done elsewhere, with the athlete's consent and on their terms.

  • Match-day and venue operations lead

    Gates that move before kickoff, stewards where they are needed, and a concourse that can serve the half-time rush.

  • Esports team manager

    Rosters, scrims and brackets in one place, and bootcamp or LAN travel costed before anyone books.

  • Gym or studio owner

    Which classes and time slots are thinning, and how coaching hours match real participation.

A day in the life

The story behind the solution

One fixture week at Kestrel Vale Athletic

Nadia Okafor has been general manager at Kestrel Vale Athletic for three seasons. The club runs a youth academy from U9 to U18, men's and women's senior sides, a five-player esports roster and a members' gym above the clubhouse, on a handful of paid staff and a long list of volunteers. This is one fixture week in October, told through the moments where the club's tools let people down.

  1. Thursday, 9:40 pm

    Who can play on Saturday?

    Tomás, the U18 coach, sends Nadia a screenshot of three group chats and a spreadsheet. The county cup tie is 40 hours away. He has eleven confirmations, two maybes, a suspension he is fairly sure about and a center-back whose mother mentioned a sore ankle in a different chat. Parents want the meet time tonight. Nadia realizes the club's most important weekly decision is being made from a phone at a kitchen table.

    How this is solved: Match-week availability lives in group chats

  2. Friday, 6:15 pm

    The load nobody logged

    At the last first-team session before the quarter-final, winger Priya Nair pulls up in a sprint drill and sits out with tight hamstrings. Dev, the strength and conditioning coach, checks the club's log: a moderate week. Only afterwards does Priya mention Wednesday's college match and a gym session that morning. Dev tells Nadia he is programming for a player he can only half see, and that another form will not fix it.

    How this is solved: Coaches only see the load they prescribe

  3. Saturday, 1:20 pm

    A queue back to the parking lot

    The women's cup quarter-final draws the biggest crowd in years. The north gate backs up because season-pass holders and walk-up buyers share one volunteer with a printed list, while the away gate stands empty. At half-time the tea hut runs out of pies with thirty people still queuing. On Monday the treasurer asks how many people came, and the answer is a clicker count and a cash tin.

    How this is solved: Home fixtures are ticketed events run on paper

  4. Sunday, 8:00 pm

    Eleven tabs for one trip

    Jun, who manages the esports roster, sends Nadia a costing for the regional LAN finals: rail, two hotel options, a sponsor who has promised a contribution and five players, two of them under 18. If the team wins Saturday's semi-final there is a Sunday final, and nobody has asked about a late checkout. The U12 soccer coordinator is planning a tournament weekend for sixteen families the same way.

    How this is solved: Tournament weekends and LAN trips planned in tabs

  5. Monday, 10:00 am

    The member who lapsed unnoticed

    Grace, the supporter liaison officer, forwards a note from a long-standing supporter who was turned away at the gate with last season's card; his renewal reminder had gone to spam. The away-game bus for the semi-final has twelve names on a paper list. Grace asks Nadia where the club actually talks to its own fans.

    How this is solved: Supporters, parents and pass holders drift away quietly

  6. Tuesday, 7:30 pm

    The slide that was already out of date

    At the committee meeting Nadia presents a slide she built on Sunday from five exports. The gym manager thinks the 6 am strength classes are thinning but cannot say by how much, and the treasurer's gate takings do not match the ticket count. The chair asks whether the club is growing, and where it is losing people. Nobody can answer from the same numbers.

    How this is solved: The gym floor and the committee room see different numbers

In the week Burdenoff is designed for, each fixture the coaches schedule once feeds the availability board, the ticketed event, the concourse and the supporters' circle. Priya decides what Dev can see. Jun's trip moves with the bracket. And Nadia walks into the committee with a console the chair can open from a shared link.

Challenges and how they are solved

6 problems, several products, one connected answer

Each challenge shows the problem as it happens, how the products are designed to hand work to each other, and the concepts that illustrate it. Share any challenge on its own.

Challenge 1 of 6

Match-week availability lives in group chats

AthleteBridge(opens AthleteBridge in a new tab)ComradeCircle(opens ComradeCircle in a new tab)MyBodyShield(opens MyBodyShield in a new tab)

The problem

Friday, 8:10 am. The U18 team manager is finishing the team sheet on her commute, from a squad spreadsheet she last touched on Monday. Last weekend's red card means a one-match ban, but the league email confirming it sits in the coach's inbox. The physio's note clearing a returning winger is a text she has not seen, the center-back's sore ankle is known only to the parents' chat, and two players have not answered anyone. The squad has to be out by lunchtime so families can arrange rides, and every correction means another message into another group.

What it costs

Squads are named on partial information, players turn up who should be resting, parents chase answers late at night, and volunteer coaches spend their evenings on admin instead of coaching.

How the products work together

AthleteBridge holds the fixture and the roster, with each player's status (active, injured, suspended, trial) kept current by the staff. When the fixture is scheduled, ComradeCircle is designed to carry an 'Available Saturday?' poll into the team's private players-and-parents circle, where families already talk, and each reply and short note flows back against the player. Players aged 18 and over who use MyBodyShield are designed to be able to share a self-reported readiness score with the coaching staff; younger players appear only through a club-managed account set up with verifiable guardian consent. AthleteBridge's match-week availability board is designed to bring the three together, so the coach marks starting, bench and out from one grid, then posts the squad and meet time back to the circle's announcement channel.

The outcome it is designed for

The coach names the squad from one screen, parents get a single announcement with the meet time, and every change of player status is on the record rather than in someone's phone.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 2 of 6

Coaches only see the load they prescribe

MyBodyShield(opens MyBodyShield in a new tab)AthleteBridge(opens AthleteBridge in a new tab)

The problem

Monday morning, the strength and conditioning coach reviews the women's first team's week on the club's session log. On paper it is tidy: two club sessions and a match for each player. He knows it is not the whole story. One winger also plays for her college side, a midfielder works shifts on her feet in a warehouse, the goalkeeper has started half-marathon training with a friend, and two players are sleeping badly through exams. None of it reaches the log because it happens outside the club, and every weekly questionnaire the club has tried has faded by the third week. He plans the next block knowing part of the picture is missing.

What it costs

Load decisions rest on a partial picture, athletes feel watched rather than supported, and staff cannot tell whether a program is working or simply stacking on top of training done elsewhere.

How the products work together

MyBodyShield is designed as the athlete's own record: a short morning check-in for sleep, soreness, stress and mood, and a log for sessions done outside the club, all private by default. Its consent controls are designed to extend to the club, so the athlete can switch on exactly what the club may read, for example the readiness score and outside-club sessions but not nutrition or body metrics, and switch it off again at any time. AthleteBridge is designed to receive those shared entries alongside its own workout logs, so its coach analytics can show acute load, chronic load and the load ratio across everything the athlete chose to share. The S&C coach uses that picture to start a conversation and adjust the next block of the program in AthleteBridge. It is a coaching aid built on self-reported data, not a medical assessment.

The outcome it is designed for

Coaches plan the week around the load athletes actually carried, athletes keep control of what is seen and can revoke it, and the conversation starts before a player pulls up.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 3 of 6

Home fixtures are ticketed events run on paper

EventfullyManaged(opens EventfullyManaged in a new tab)Kadaikodi(opens Kadaikodi in a new tab)AthleteBridge(opens AthleteBridge in a new tab)

The problem

Thursday night before the next home fixture, the match-day lead sits down to plan stewards and has almost nothing to go on. She does not know how many people came through each gate last time, whether season-pass holders arrived early or in the final ten minutes, or how long anyone waited. The tea hut's card reader says what sold but not when, the club shop's stock sheet was last counted in August, and the only attendance figure is a volunteer's tally from one gate. So the four stewards stand where they stood last time, the tea hut orders the same number of pies, and everyone hopes.

What it costs

Fans miss kickoff in the queue, takings walk away at half-time, volunteers absorb the stress, and the club cannot answer basic questions about attendance and revenue.

How the products work together

AthleteBridge holds the fixture: opponent, kickoff and venue. EventfullyManaged is designed to turn that home fixture into a ticketed event as soon as it is set, with season-pass, adult, senior/student and junior tiers, QR check-in at named gate stations, steward roles and a live count against capacity; its match-day console is designed to show scans per gate so the operations lead can open an overflow lane before kickoff. Kadaikodi is designed to run each outlet as a merchant taking pickup orders placed from fans' phones, with stock counts and restock tasks for volunteers. EventfullyManaged is designed to pass kickoff and half-time to Kadaikodi, send ticket holders a pickup reminder through its announcements before half-time, and show Kadaikodi's open orders and low-stock flags in the match-day console.

The outcome it is designed for

Gates move, fans are in for kickoff, the half-time rush is served from pickup orders, and the next steward plan and pie order start from the record rather than a guess.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 4 of 6

Tournament weekends and LAN trips planned in tabs

GGNomad(opens GGNomad in a new tab)AthleteBridge(opens AthleteBridge in a new tab)

The problem

The U12 soccer coordinator is organizing a two-day youth tournament four hours from home for sixteen families. The hotel block has to be confirmed by Friday, three families want to share rooms, two parents cannot drive and need seats in someone's car, and the organizer only fixes Sunday's kickoff times once Saturday's group results are in. Guardian consent and medical forms arrive by email and as phone photos, the deposit sits on her own card, and every change goes out to four separate chats. The esports manager, planning a LAN trip for the same weekend, is building the same spreadsheet from scratch.

What it costs

Hours of unpaid admin per trip, surprise costs that land on families, missed deadlines for rooms and seats, and chaperoning arrangements that live in one person's inbox.

How the products work together

AthleteBridge is the source of the traveling party and the schedule: players and staff from the AthleteBridge roster, with chaperones added in GGNomad, and the tournament fixtures in its bracket. GGNomad is designed to start a group trip from that squad. The manager shortlists stays near the venue and rail or road legs, the group votes on options, rooms are assigned with under-18s flagged, and the cost is split across the club budget, a sponsor contribution and per-player or per-family shares. Bracket times are designed to appear on the trip's day-by-day schedule, so a 'final if qualified' day holds a tentative late checkout instead of a guess. Tasks such as guardian consent forms and kit lists sit on the same plan, and each booking is designed to follow one lifecycle with reminders.

The outcome it is designed for

One plan per trip that every traveler and parent can see, costs agreed before anyone books, and a schedule that moves with the bracket instead of against it.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 5 of 6

Supporters, parents and pass holders drift away quietly

ComradeCircle(opens ComradeCircle in a new tab)EventfullyManaged(opens EventfullyManaged in a new tab)AthleteBridge(opens AthleteBridge in a new tab)

The problem

Sunday night after a cup win, the result is on the league's site and on a fan's social post, but nowhere the club controls. The supporters' club secretary is counting seats for the away-game bus from replies spread across a social page, two email threads and a sign-up sheet on the clubhouse bar. The kit vote happened in a comments thread nobody can find, the juniors' parents have their own group, and the season-pass renewal emails go out from a mailing tool with nobody watching the bounce list. The committee cannot tell whether the community is growing or quietly thinning.

What it costs

Renewals slip without anyone noticing, away-game buses run half empty, the club loses the volunteers who carry it, and it has no channel of its own to its own fans.

How the products work together

ComradeCircle is designed to give the club its own private circles for the supporters' club, juniors and families, and volunteers, each with an announcements channel, match-day and away-game channels, polls, and event RSVPs with capacity for bus seats. AthleteBridge fixtures and results are designed to post into the announcements channel, so the circle always shows the next match and the last score without anyone retyping it. EventfullyManaged holds next season's season-pass and early-renewal tiers with their sales windows, and the supporters' hub is designed to show renewal progress beside the conversation, so the liaison officer can remind members who have not renewed from the place those members already read.

The outcome it is designed for

Fans hear it first from the club, bus seats fill through RSVPs, next season's renewals are tracked while the early window is still open, and the committee can see whether the community is growing.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 6 of 6

The gym floor and the committee room see different numbers

MyBodyShield(opens MyBodyShield in a new tab)FluidGrids(opens FluidGrids in a new tab)BigConsole(opens BigConsole in a new tab)EventfullyManaged(opens EventfullyManaged in a new tab)AthleteBridge(opens AthleteBridge in a new tab)

The problem

The gym manager has to set the winter class timetable by the end of the month and cannot say which slots are worth keeping. Class sign-ups sit in a booking tool, coaching hours in a rota spreadsheet, and the academy's session numbers in each coach's notebook. The same week, a community grant application asks for participation across the academy, the senior sides, esports and the gym, and every section counts it differently. The treasurer wants to know whether the early-morning coaching hours pay their way, and the only club-wide picture is last month's committee slide.

What it costs

Coaching hours, class timetables and budgets are decided on anecdote, thinning class slots are spotted too late, and the general manager's weekend disappears into spreadsheets.

How the products work together

MyBodyShield is designed to give the gym and studio side member groups, roles and aggregate class participation, kept apart from any member's personal health data. FluidGrids workflows can be set up to call each product's API on a schedule and are designed to gather aggregate participation from MyBodyShield, ticket and gate totals from EventfullyManaged, and logged workouts and coaching sessions from AthleteBridge, then write each into a BigConsole datasink, the datasink route by which FluidGrids feeds BigConsole dashboards. BigConsole is designed to turn those datasinks into a club operations console with filters by section (academy, senior, esports, gym) and period, and drill-down to the rows behind each chart. It is designed to share the console by role, so a section coach sees their own section and the treasurer sees takings.

The outcome it is designed for

The committee reads one current console instead of a stale slide, the gym manager sees which classes are thinning while there is time to act, and nobody gives up a Sunday to copy numbers.

The concepts behind it

How it fits together

How one fixture week flows through the products

One fixture week at a community club, from the moment the match is scheduled to the committee meeting that reviews it. Each step is one product doing one job and passing something concrete to the next.

  1. To ComradeCircle: In match week an availability poll goes to the team's circle; the same fixture is designed to open a ticketed event in EventfullyManaged weeks ahead, kickoff and venue filled in.

  2. To AthleteBridge: Per-player replies and notes land on the match-week availability board.

  3. To AthleteBridge: Only the shared readiness score and outside-club sessions reach the coaching staff.

  4. To ComradeCircle: The named squad and meet time are posted to the circle's announcement channel.

  5. To Kadaikodi: Kickoff and half-time times set when ticket holders get a pickup reminder for the concourse.

  6. To FluidGrids: Order totals, peak times and stock levels per outlet, read through its API.

  7. To BigConsole: Each run writes fresh figures into the datasinks behind the club operations console.

Step 1 of 8: Set the fixture

Products in this solution

What each product brings

  • AthleteBridge

    Squad, fixture and training record

    Holds teams, rosters with player status, fixtures and results, training programs, workout logs and coach analytics, including esports brackets: the spine every other product reads the fixture and squad from.

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  • MyBodyShield

    Athlete- and member-owned fitness record

    Gives adult athletes their own record of readiness, recovery and outside training with a sharing switch per area, and is designed to give gyms and studios member groups and aggregate class participation, kept apart from personal health data.

    Visit MyBodyShieldAll concepts

  • ComradeCircle

    Owned community for players, parents and fans

    Private circles with announcement channels, polls and event RSVPs replace scattered group chats for teams, families, volunteers and the supporters' club.

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  • EventfullyManaged

    Ticketing and match-day entry

    Ticket tiers including season passes, QR check-in at named gate stations, steward roles and live counts are designed to turn home fixtures and hosted tournaments into well-run events.

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  • Kadaikodi

    Concourse and club shop commerce

    Pickup orders from phones and kiosks, stock counts and worker tasks are designed to let the tea hut, bar and club shop serve the half-time rush and keep takings on the record.

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  • GGNomad

    Tournament and away travel

    Group trip planning with stays, travel legs, voting and cost splitting is designed for tournament weekends, bootcamps and LAN finals as well as supporters' away games.

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  • FluidGrids

    Automation and data collection

    Scheduled workflows can call each product's API and write the figures into BigConsole datasinks that refresh live dashboards.

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  • BigConsole

    Club operations console

    Governed consoles with filters, drill-down and role-based sharing give the committee, coaches and treasurer one current view built from the club's own records.

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One platform underneath: Burdenoff Workspaces

Every product here runs on Burdenoff Workspaces: one sign-in for coaches, volunteers and staff, role-based access so a junior coach sees their squad and not the accounts, one audit trail of who changed what, and one bill across the products the club turns on.

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The Sports & Fitness solution in one minute

Clubs, academies, esports teams and gyms run on group chats, spreadsheets and volunteers' evenings. Burdenoff is designed to bring together AthleteBridge for squads and fixtures, MyBodyShield for athlete-owned readiness and gym participation, ComradeCircle for players, parents and fans, EventfullyManaged and Kadaikodi for match days, GGNomad for tournament travel, and FluidGrids with BigConsole for the committee view, on one sign-in and one audit trail.

  • Name the squad from one board: roster status, availability replies and athlete-shared readiness side by side.
  • Adult athletes decide what the club sees from their own training and wellbeing record, and can switch it off at any time.
  • Run home fixtures as ticketed events, with gate scans, stewards and concourse pickup orders on one live view.
  • Plan tournament weekends and LAN trips against the real squad and bracket, with costs split before anyone books.
  • Give the committee one current console across academy, senior, esports and gym, built from the club's own records.
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Questions

Frequently asked

Is the readiness data a medical or injury-risk assessment?

No. Readiness in MyBodyShield is self-reported by the athlete (sleep, soreness, stress, mood), and training load in AthleteBridge is arithmetic over logged workouts. Both are designed to help coaches start a conversation and plan training. They are not medical advice, do not diagnose anything, and do not replace a qualified medical or physiotherapy professional.

Who controls what the club can see about an athlete?

The athlete. MyBodyShield is private by default, and its sharing switches are checked on every read. It is designed to let an athlete share a readiness score but not body metrics or nutrition, and to pause or end sharing at any time. MyBodyShield is designed for adults: players under 18 take part only through the club, using a club-managed account set up with verifiable guardian consent, and the club's own safeguarding policy still applies.

Does this work for esports teams as well as field sports?

Yes, by design. AthleteBridge models esports rosters, scrims and tournament fixtures the same way as any other team, including a round-by-round bracket, and GGNomad's group-trip planning is designed for LAN finals and bootcamps as much as for youth tournaments and away games.

We already use our league's system for fixtures and registrations. Do we have to replace it?

No. League and governing-body systems remain the official source for competition entries and player registrations. AthleteBridge is designed to be the club's internal record for squads, training and match weeks. FluidGrids can route data between systems where a connector or an API exists, and we would scope that with you rather than promise an integration that does not exist yet.

Can we start with one part, such as match days or the gym?

Yes. Each product is designed to work on its own, and because they share Workspaces sign-in, roles and billing, adding the next one does not mean a new set of accounts or a new audit trail. You can start where the pain is sharpest, such as match-week availability or match-day entry, and connect the rest later.

Is all of this available today?

No. All of these products are pre-launch, and this page describes a solution concept: how they are designed to work together for a sports organization. Several surfaces shown, and every hand-off between products, are designs rather than shipped features. Talk to us about the early-access program and what is on each product's roadmap.

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