Jake's Road Report is Gemini Sports founder Jake Schuster’s weekly update from professional football's frontlines. He travels globally, meeting club executives to share candid insights on AI's role in football. These raw, actionable thoughts are delivered weekly, with meeting details kept confidential and specific intel omitted.

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“I feel like I’m in the war room at the NFL Draft, looking at The Big Board.”

Forgive the American-isms. 

I was recently meeting with a LATAM club’s new US-based owners, on our kanban-style application page. On it was their roster and a mockup of players they could be scouting, in columns by phase of process, tagged by type such as “sent by agent”, “release clause”, or “from last year.”

The investor I was speaking to was all too aware of such fundamental tools for executive decision-making, and he wanted what he’d seen on NFL Network, in his online Fantasy Football League, or when playing video games like Madden and FIFA Manager Mode.

When I started this business, I was stunned to learn a page like this didn’t exist in most clubs and wasn’t being used by every executive. 

One place with all the context you need — your best researchers left alone to focus on more complex tasks, and you with critical operational dynamics at your fingertips. 

Do you have a Big Board?