For brands & partners

Cultural relevance, measured.

Stop guessing at who to work with. Every athlete resolves to one number — the ATHL Z-score — built from real, structured data you can price a deal against. Move beyond follower counts to discover, evaluate, match and measure.

The ATHL Z-score

A weighted score that prices economic utility.

Signals resolve into six weighted dimensions. The output is a 0–100 score that maps directly to economic utility. Example weights shown; in production they're calibrated per sport, position, and cohort.

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Commercial value24%Deal velocity & quality, NIL valuation, merch and licensing, marketplace demandOn3 · Opendorse
Audience growth20%Reach, growth rate, engagement quality, audience valueplatform APIs
Brand value18%Sentiment stability, brand safety, audience affinity, narrative strengthBrandwatch · Nielsen
Performance16%Production, competition strength, availability, form trajectorySportradar · Genius
Market momentum14%Media attention, viral reach, search trends, key momentsMeltwater · clip models
Future potential8%Career trajectory, opportunity runway, development, market expansionpredictive
Example · Illustrative

A rising basketball guard resolves to an ATHL Z-score of 78 / 100 (Commercial 71, Audience 84, Brand 76, Performance 80, Momentum 88, Future 74).

That score maps to modeled economic utility: an ambassador rate of $9k–$14k per sponsored post, a forecast campaign attribution of 2.9x the category median.

When momentum moves, the score — and every price attached to it — moves with it.

What the machine reads

Same athlete. Two very different things to buy against.

This is the gap ATHL closes: turning a name on a page into a ranked, matched, monetizable profile a brand can actually price.

Thin signal · what you can target today
nameAlo Slebir
sportSurfing · big wave
followers~50K
brand fitnot modeled
audiencenot structured
cultural signalnot captured
momentumnot measured
→ A name on a page.
Structured signal · what ATHL delivers
identityUC Santa Cruz · construction worker
credibility108-ft wave at Mavericks · Dec '24
audience modelAction sports · coastal · authenticity-driven
cultural affinityCraft · grit · blue-collar surf culture
brand-safetyNo controversy · authentic narrative
momentum2025 Big Wave Challenge winner · ESPN
discoverabilityAI-legible across dimensions
Ranked. Matched. Discovered. Monetized.

Search by sport, market, audience and score component.

Identify rising career and cultural momentum early.

Connect with verified athletes and their real communities.

Measure outcomes — which feed back into the athlete's record and sharpen future matches.

For brands & partners

Partner with verified communities.

Request access to activate curated rosters, measure fandom in real time, and price deals against the ATHL Z-score.

For agencies, brands, teams, and leagues.