The PlayOS Suite — Five focused apps for youth soccer

Youth soccer runs on volunteers, spreadsheets, and prayer. It deserves better.

Five apps. One operating system. Each one built for a real Saturday — the coach drowning at 4:55 PM, the commissioner with seven browser tabs, the family asking is she actually getting better?

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Hi, I'm Brett

I'm a volunteer soccer coach. I'm a commissioner at DSYSA — 1,000+ players in central Texas. And I'm a soccer parent. Three jobs at the same club, three sets of frustrations, all stacked on top of a day job and a family.

I built PlayOS because I was doing all three and drowning in all three — and nothing on the market was built by someone who'd actually lived any of it. Scribbling practice plans five minutes before kickoff. Running the club out of seven tabs. Trying to coach a 7v7 with twelve kids on the roster, rotating minutes fairly, watching the actual game, and mentally logging Wednesday's fixes — all at the same time. And at home, I couldn't answer the questions my daughter's development was asking me.

These are the five apps I needed to exist. The biggest soccer summer in a generation is coming. Somebody has to give the volunteers a fighting chance.

— Brett · Founder, PlayOS Sports
5apps
Coach · Game · Ops · Tournament · Player
350+
Drills · 6 methodologies · 5 age groups
30tasks
Season laid out · week –12 to playoffs
125
Hero cards · earned through real play
The Stack · At a glance

Jump to the one that's yours.

Each app stands alone. Together they're an operating system. Tap whichever sounds like your Saturday morning.

01 Coach·For the volunteer who got voluntold

You didn't volunteer. You got volunteered.

Most rec coaches never played the game at a serious level. They got drafted — by a sign-up sheet, a league director, or their own kid. By Tuesday at 5 PM they're Googling drills in a parking lot, hoping not to embarrass themselves. Coach is the app that makes that moment feel survivable.

01 — Build

A full session, three taps before kickoff

Age, duration, focus. The generator builds a complete session balanced across warm-up, skill, game, and cooldown — calibrated to your age group, your library, and the drills you've already run.

  • 350+ drills across 6 documented methodologies (Coerver, Play-Practice-Play, Positional, Classic, Futsal, Creative)
  • 5 age groups with age-aware phase timings (U6 → U13+)
  • Avoid filters — flag a drill once, the generator stops recommending it
02 — Run

A coach on your shoulder at the field

The Session Runner times every drill, surfaces live coaching points, and gives you a panic button when the U8s revolt at minute 22.

  • Prep Card generated for every session — opener line, three things to focus on, three "if X, do Y" curveballs
  • Whisper — bottom-right panic button. Tap, pick a scenario, get a 3-card fix in under 5 seconds
  • Coach Me Through This — AI walkthrough on any drill: what to say, when it breaks, FAQs kids actually ask
03 — Grow

An 8-to-20 week season laid out for you

The Season Planner moves players from fundamentals in week one to game-day tactics by week twenty. Four phases, calibrated per age, regenerate any week, swap drills inside a week, move weeks when life happens.

  • Coach Academy — 7 modules, 17 lessons, 87-term glossary. You're learning while you coach
  • Ask PlayOS — an AI that speaks the right age (U6 gets "feet magic," U13+ gets "third-man runs")
  • Coach Sync — share saved sessions, plans, and favorites with your assistant on another device
350+
Drills in the library
7modules
Coach Academy
87terms
Glossary
20wk
Season plan range
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Build · Library · Session · Season · Learn
Hawks U10 · Tuesday Session
60 min · Focus: Passing under pressure
Warm-up · Done
Possession Knockout
8:00
Skill · Now running
Pressure Passing — 4v2 Rondo
12:24
Game · Next
3v3 to Endzones
15:00
Whisper ready. Tap if practice goes sideways.
02 Game·For the coach on the touchline

The 8-minute argument ends the moment you can show the receipts.

A parent texts you Sunday morning: "my kid only played 8 minutes." You have the exact minutes, by position, by half. You have the tags you tapped on the touchline. You have the AI parent summary you sent five minutes after the final whistle. The argument is over before it starts.

01 — Before

Smart Lineup, not "who was loudest in the parking lot"

Tap who's here. The generator scores every player against every position using fit, endurance, position history, and goal contribution — then drops a starting lineup you can override with a single drag.

  • 13 formations across 4v4, 7v7, 9v9, and 11v11
  • 9 age groups (U8–U19) with per-age rules auto-applied: format, half length, sub rules, min playing time, ball size
  • Printable Game Plan — formation diagram, starting lineup, bench. Post it in the group chat
02 — Live

Phone in your hand. Sub bar tells you who's next.

The clock runs. The sub-bar timer counts down to your next planned rotation. When a player's at risk of missing the league's minimum playing time, the bar lights up with first names of who needs to come on.

  • Equity alerts — never accidentally bench a kid for half the game again
  • One-tap subs, OT periods, PK shootouts, yellow + red cards, sub budget tracking for U13+
  • Quick Notes — age-bucketed, role-aware tags ("great try," "won the duel," "split the defense"). Tap a player, tap a tag, done
03 — After

A coach-voiced parent summary in 60 seconds

Tap a few per-player tags. The AI Parent Summary writes the recap — in your coach voice, not chatbot voice — ready to paste in the team chat. Every game saves to a season archive with full CSV export.

  • AI Player Trend narratives showing development across the season
  • Full CSV export — every game, every player, every minute, every tag. Receipts for every parent conversation
  • Game Sync — live lineup sync to your assistant's device during the match
13forms
Across 4v4 → 11v11
9ages
U8 → U19
5subs
FIFA rules for U13+
50%
Min playing time, tracked live
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Hawks
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Lions
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32:18
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3
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8
6
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!Sub Maya, Eli — 4 min left this half
Equity
Goal · Lila (28')
Assist · Sam
03 Ops·For the commissioner

You're running a club out of seven browser tabs.

That's not a system. That's a fire drill that resets every August. Ops is the operating manual the people before you should have written down. Pick your role. Get your dashboard. Stop reinventing the season from scratch.

01 — Your role

A dashboard built for the job you actually hold

Six role playbooks. Pick yours and every screen personalizes. Each playbook is structured the same way for predictability — five sections, with clear ownership on every line item so nothing falls through the cracks between board members.

  • 6 roles: Director, Commissioner, Registrar, Facilities, Treasurer, Volunteer Coordinator
  • Custom items per club — your audit, your playbook, your autopilot. Synced across the board
  • Bidirectional audit ↔ playbook links — failing an audit jumps you straight to the line that fixes it
02 — Your season

30 tasks. Phase-grouped. Already laid out.

Season Autopilot is week-anchored from week –12 through playoffs. Every task is role-tagged, sub-checklisted, and synced with timestamp metadata so two board members can't accidentally clobber each other's work.

  • Club Health Audit across 9 categories — Governance, Registration, Coaches, Facilities, Schedule, Comms, Game Day, Playoffs, Safety
  • Meeting-in-a-Box — board meeting agenda auto-drafted from your audit, autopilot status, and sponsor pipeline
  • Monthly Ops Scorecard — AI-generated, persists per-month, surfaces on Home with history
03 — Your Saturday

SOS button when something breaks at 8:47 a.m.

Weather rolling in. Coach no-show. Sideline conflict. Referee didn't arrive. One tap drops you into the right decision tree — severity-coded, action-clear, no Googling, no texting the outgoing commissioner who quit last year.

  • 4 decision trees (Weather using 30/30 lightning standard · Coach · Parent · Field)
  • 15 common-issue protocols with response steps
  • 8 email templates + 5 multi-step campaigns with rich preview and template forks
6roles
Playbooks · One per seat
30tasks
Season autopilot
4trees
Decision protocols
6SOS
One-tap entries
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Role · Division Commissioner
DSYSA Fall 2026
78
Club Health Score
3 items need attention
Governance solid · Coaches need cert review · Field safety walk overdue
Coach onboarding kit sent
Week -6 · Owned by you
Background checks reconciled with state
Week -4 · Highest stakes item
Weather group set up in messaging app
Week -3 · Owned by you
Field walk-through with facilities
Week -2 · Coordinate · Facilities Dir
04 Tournament·For the director

Run a weekend that looks like a real tournament.

Brackets seeded correctly so the #1 and #2 only meet in the final. Auto-scheduling that catches field double-bookings and back-to-back conflicts before the printer does. One public link to share — no accounts, no app installs, no parents asking what's the score on field 3? Live scores update in real time.

01 — Set up

From "you're running it" to public link in 30 minutes

A four-step wizard: Basics, Divisions, Brackets, Schedule. Brackets generate themselves, seeded correctly with byes attached to the top seeds — not appended sequentially like that 2019 spreadsheet.

  • Up to 4 brackets per tournament (2 divisions × 2 genders), 2–16 teams per bracket
  • Smart seeding — top seeds spread to opposite halves of the bracket, so the #1 and #2 only meet in the final
  • Auto-scheduler with field double-booking + 90-minute team back-to-back conflict detection
02 — Run live

Update a score on your phone. Every family sees it.

Update a score on your phone. Every family watching the link sees it within 30 seconds. A persistent admin bar keeps the share link one tap away — the single most important thing the director needs at hand.

  • OT + PK score entry, live-since timestamps auto-set when a game goes live
  • Sponsor showcase — Headline / Gold / Silver tiers with a persistent banner visible from every tab families look at
  • Director announcements with urgent flag — in-app banner across every tab, auto-dismiss with local memory
03 — Run many

One subscription. Many tournaments. Permanent URLs.

Each tournament has its own permanent share link — bookmarkable by families, reusable year over year. A "My Tournaments" view for directors running more than one. Each tournament's data stays isolated; switching never risks overwrites.

  • Public view is always free — families never see a paywall, never need to install anything
  • 10 editable rules + 6 info sections pre-filled with sensible defaults, fully customizable
  • Public-by-design notice — clear guidance to keep personal info out of team and tournament names
16teams
Max per bracket
14day
Max tournament span
3tiers
Sponsor showcase
free
Public family access
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Spring Classic 2026 · U10 Boys
?t=SC2026
Bracket · Quarterfinals
#1Hawks3
#8Tigers0
#4Strikers2
#5Falcons2
#3United
#6Lions
#2Eagles
#7Wolves
#1Hawks
TBD
TBD
TBD
Final
Sun 4pm
Field 2 · LIVE
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05 Player·For the player and the family

You're spending $5,000 a year. You deserve an answer to "is she getting better?"

A soccer story that belongs to your kid — not to a club, not to a team, not to whoever's coaching this season. Eight skills tracked on a radar that evolves with age-specific rubrics. Five daily challenges with percentile benchmarks. 125 collectible Hero Cards earned through real play. And — for U13+ — a Recruiting Portfolio they can hand to a college coach.

01 — The picture

8 skills. Age-specific rubrics. A radar that evolves.

Where is she right now, in language calibrated to her actual age — not generic "be good at soccer"? Every skill rated Developing / Solid / Standout with rubrics tuned for U8 / U9-10 / U11-13 / U14+. Every rating change preserved in a progression timeline.

  • 8 skills on a radar — Ball Control, Passing, Defending, Attacking, Positioning, Communication, Effort & Attitude, Speed & Agility
  • Dev Score 0–100 per skill, computed from benchmark percentiles
  • Percentile ruler showing where she sits on the curve for her age (p25/p50/p75/p90)
02 — The work

5 daily challenges. Real benchmarks. Real progress.

Juggling, toe taps, wall passes, dribble touches, pull-backs. Real benchmarks by age sourced from US Youth Soccer skills standards — so a 25-juggle streak at U8 means something different than at U13. Hit all five in a day, get a bonus.

  • AI Weekly Development Plan — pulls her age, current weak areas, recent Game Log, generates a structured M-F plan with rationale and daily themes
  • Game Log — every game logged with quick skill check, building the progression timeline
  • Goals tab with auto-suggested goals from developing skills
03 — The story

125 Hero Cards earned. A portfolio when it counts.

Cards are real receipts — earned for leveling up a skill, completing a challenge, hitting a Journey milestone. Players upload their photo, share their cards to social, and build trading-card summaries of their best games and seasons. At U13+, the Recruiting Portfolio generates a printable page with a written narrative ready for college coaches.

  • 11 milestone categories with structured fields — first goal, hat trick, camp, tournament, gear, photo moment, position change…
  • Investment rollup — total parent investment across camps, training, gear, tournaments. Honest. Useful. Occasionally sobering
  • Family tier — up to 4 player profiles in one subscription
8skills
Radar · 3 levels each
5daily
Skill challenges
125cards
Hero collection
12ages
U8 → U19
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Lila · U10 · Forward
Level 7 · 1,240 PXP
+60
Ball Pass Attack Speed Defend Effort Posit. Comm
Hero Card earned
Samba Soul · Tier II
50 juggle streak unlocked
Toe Taps · 30s
p75· +40 PXP
Wall Passes · 60s
p90· +40 PXP
The Suite · How it compounds

The apps are good alone. Together they're an operating system.

One source of truth across coaches, the board, families, and game day. The data flows where it should. Your kid's information stays exactly where it belongs.

01 — Built for the people in it
Privacy that doesn't need a press release
Player names never leave the device for AI calls. Public tournament views never need an account. Player data belongs to the family — never sold to clubs, never resold to anyone. Kids' information is held like it would be if it were yours.
Your kid's data, your kid's →
02 — One signup. No friction.
7-day free trial. Cancel before day 7.
Pick your app. Start your trial. No charge if you cancel before day 7. If you need to pause for an off-season, your access picks back up where you left it for up to 90 days. Works offline once it's loaded.
Card upfront. No surprise charges →
03 — An AI that knows what you're doing
Tuned to your age, role, and minute
The Ask PlayOS assistant pulls live context from whatever app you're in — your team, your session, your audit, your player profile — so the answer is about your Saturday morning, not a generic chatbot lecture. 15 queries a day on paid plans.
Context beats waffle →
Pricing · The short version

Priced like it matters. Not like a SaaS shakedown.

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Five apps. One ridiculous fact: every single one was built because the founder needed it to exist on a specific weekend last year. Start the one that's yours.

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