Three kinds of partnerships, three kinds of value exchange. Pick the path that fits.
Tournament organizers
Run your tournament on Lightning for Tournament Directors.
Live pitch-by-pitch scoring, AI recaps, scout portal, fan zone, team registrations through Stripe Connect, and a vendor marketplace — on a separate WordPress install at tournaments.fsathletics.site. No flat fee. FSA takes a small percentage of director-set transactions (typically 1.5%) plus optional per-team / per-player add-ons.
Stripe Connect for team entry fees, gate admission, vendor orders
Director controls what they charge; FSA's cut comes out of the flow
If your travel club or rec league has multiple teams and you want every coach on Lightning for Coaches, talk to us. No published bulk tier exists today — arrangements are negotiated case-by-case based on team count, coach count, and what you need beyond the standard $250/yr Coach Pro+ subscription.
All Coach Pro+ features for every coach in your org
Team websites with custom branding via the Drag-on-Canvas Website Builder
Game Tracker, Lineup Builder, Practice Planner, Scouting Reports
One conversation, one contract, one point of contact
Most companies that want to work with you ask you to write a check. We do the opposite. If you run a batting cage, indoor soccer or lacrosse facility, pitching lab, hitting tunnel, cheer gym, wrestling room, performance training facility, or any local sports training operation — we want to invest in you. We build custom software, we host it, we sponsor membership giveaways for your clients. You distribute Lightning to your families and let us put our verification badge on the measurables you capture.
Model A
Custom software, built for you
We design and build a custom tool addressing one of your real pain points — booking widget, verified-measurable ingestion, camp registration, photo finder, equipment selector, open-slot alerts, facility tournament hub. We host it on our infrastructure or yours. We maintain it. You pay nothing.
Equivalent value: $5,000-$15,000 of custom dev work per tool
Model B
3-month Pro-tier memberships you give away
We hand you 250 codes for 3-month Pro-tier Lightning Player Profile memberships ($50/yr value each). You give them to your clients with their session pack. You get to say "we paid for three months of recruiting software for your kid." At month 3 they convert to paid Lightning or downgrade gracefully — no surprise charges.
Equivalent value: $12,500 of memberships per facility per year
Pick one. Pick both. Or pick a different combination. The whole point is that the partnership shape fits your facility, not a one-size-fits-all template.
No SaaS subscription. No monthly fee. Hosted on our infrastructure.
Each of these is roughly weekend-scale to build. You don't pay for the build, the hosting, or maintenance. The exchange is everything you'd find on the brand-presence menu — distribution, endorsement, your name on customer-facing surfaces. We build for the partners who agree to put real distribution behind it.
Brainstorming / note retention platform — capture session output (we built one for ourselves; we can build a partner-branded version)
Branded session booking widget — replaces Mindbody / Square friction with a clean checkout
Verified-measurable ingestion integration — pushes radar exit velo / pop time / vertical / shot speed straight into your clients' Lightning profiles with your brand on every measurement
Camp / showcase registration system — Stripe Connect + roster + auto-publish of results to player profiles
Photo finder by jersey number — parents search a tournament photo gallery by jersey number
Custom equipment-selector quiz — bat / glove / cleat / stick selector for your retail mix
Don't see your pain point on the list? Email and ask. If we can build it in a weekend and it fits the partnership, we will.
What we ask in return
Distribution. Endorsement. Your brand on customer-facing surfaces.
Pick what fits your facility. None of these requires you to spend cash. Most are zero-effort or one-time.
Tier 1 — zero-effort, one-time
One email blast to your client list when we launch (you sign, we write)
Lobby / cage / pitching-tunnel poster or banner
Logo on receipts and waiver forms
Welcome-packet flyer for new clients
Static line in your email signature ("Powered by Lightning")
Tier 2 — light-touch ongoing
Quarterly social media mention (Instagram / X / Facebook)
Paragraph in your existing email newsletter
TV loop promo in your lobby
Mention on your new-client intake form
Distribution of the 3-month membership codes to qualifying clients
Tier 3 — brand integration
Logo on summer-camp t-shirts
Booth space at tournaments / showcases you run
Camp-results auto-publish (with co-branded result pages)
Verified-measurable badge (the technical default for radar-equipped facilities)
Co-branded showcase or evaluation event once per year
Tier 4 — network expansion
Introduce us to two other facility owners you know
Let us name you as a reference partner when pitching the next facility
Host a small annual "facility partners meetup" (we cover food)
Want to pick à la carte? The full brand-presence menu — 20 specific levers covering player profile surfaces, content surfaces, touchpoints, marketing assets, and cross-partner presence — lives at /partners/facility-checklist/. Open it, check the ones that fit, send us your selections.
Discover partner facilities
Looking for a Lightning-verified training facility?
We list partner facilities at /facilities/ — geo-searchable by sport and city. Every listed facility has signed the partnership and pushes verified measurables into Lightning Player Profiles.