SportTech

Helping an AI-powered recruiting platform enter the market on time

Production risks could delay its launch by months. VITech secured the platform and built the infrastructure to bring it in on schedule.

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Launched on Web, iOS & Android

Full platform ownership transferred to the client

On-time release

At a glance

About the client

A U.S.-based AI recruiting platform that helps athletes

get discovered and gives coaches one place to find

and recruit talent.

A U.S.-based AI recruiting platform that helps athletes get discovered and gives coaches one place to find and recruit talent.

SportTech

Key technologies

Flutter

Next.js

NestJS

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

AWS CDK

ECS Fargate

GitHub Actions

Fastlane

Stripe

RevenueCat

New Relic

Firebase

Project scope

Production readiness, infrastructure, security, mobile launch, UX improvements.

Challenge

Prepare the product for launch before a critical market window.

Results

Launched on the web, iOS & Android. Full ownership transferred

to the client.

Launched on the web, iOS & Android. Full ownership transferred to the client.

Ready for demo but not for launch

The challenge

The product existed, but the business wasn't ready

to launch. What looked like a nearly finished platform carried real operational and technical risk underneath

the surface.

And the timing made that risk expensive. Recruiting season was closing in, a narrow window to gain traction with athletes, coaches, and sports organizations.

Miss it, and growth, customer acquisition, and product momentum all get pushed to next season.

The product existed, but the business wasn't ready

to launch. What looked like a nearly finished platform carried real operational and technical risk underneath the surface.

And the timing made that risk expensive. Recruiting season was closing in, a narrow window to gain traction with athletes, coaches, and sports organizations. Miss it, and growth, customer acquisition, and product momentum all get pushed to next season.

Ownership risk

The client didn't fully control their own code, infrastructure, deployments, DNS, or SSL certificates.

Security exposure

Critical vulnerabilities, exposed credentials, and unsecured admin endpoints put production at risk.

No production foundation

CI/CD, production environments, and monitoring were missing or half-built.

Store release blockers

The mobile payment setup kept the app from getting approved.

Poor user experience

Athletes and coaches needed different things, and the app tried to serve both with the same screen.

The solution

VITech started with Blueprint: assessing production readiness, architecture, infrastructure, and security. From there, Ignition focused on eliminating the highest-risk issues without slowing the launch timeline.