The Official Sports Corp App: a proposal from NeuralBuilt

01 The idea

Three returns, in the language you already use.

New sponsorship revenue

An exclusive “Official Sports Corp App, presented by” sponsorship, plus in-app placements and a first-ever sponsored alert channel. Together they are enough to pay for the build itself.

First-party data

Who actually attended, where they traveled from, and how to reach them again: the exact inputs your economic-impact reporting needs, and an audience you own.

First to own it

As far as we can find, only one State Games in the country has an app at all, and it’s a rented white-label. None is custom-built and owned. You’d be first.

02 Why now

Today, being informed is a hope. An app makes it the default.

Athletes get an emailed link to a schedule website they have to navigate themselves. People unsubscribe and miss updates. Volunteers don’t always know where to go. And when the weather turns, a near certainty in Colorado Springs, there is no way to reach everyone at once.

In an app, people see what you need them to see. No unsubscribing, no scrolling a website. You reach every athlete on the phone already in their hand. That is the difference between hoping people are informed and knowing they are.

The day four lightning strikes forced a delay, roughly half the crowd left and never came back. The events still had to run.

With push alerts, everyone knows the restart time the second you set it.

03 What we build

One app, three sides.

Athletes

Personal schedule and results
Join your group at sign-up, get only your updates
Phone sign-in unlocks push and SMS
Download becomes the next step after registration

Volunteers

Shifts, assignments, and venue info
Offline mode that works with no signal
Dead-simple, three-screen design
Scoring capture that feeds live results

Your team

Live day-of updates to the right groups
Weather delays reach everyone instantly
Role-based access for event directors
Feeds your new CRM as a clean data source

04 The return

The app pays for itself.

You already sell endorsed sponsor value through newsletters, TV, web, and social. The app is a new, exclusive shelf for a product your team already sells. Move the sliders to see it.

Presenting sponsor: “App presented by [Sponsor]”$12,000/yr

Additional placements: splash, results, alerts7 × ~$4k

New sponsor revenue / year

$40,000

Build (one time, nonprofit)

~$40,000

Illustrative model. Final numbers use your own sponsor rate card. This is new inventory added to a program you already run: your own athletes, on your own app, all year.

What Placer.ai gives you

The crowd, estimated

Anonymous by design. Their own policy says you get “never any data tied to specific individuals.” How many, roughly from where. No names, no way to reach anyone.

What the app adds

The people, identified

Real registrations, home origin, nights stayed, consented phone numbers: the exact inputs your economic-impact report asks for, and an audience you can reach again. Keep Placer for “how many.” Add the app for “who.”

Own it, don’t rent it. The alternative is renting a generic event app for $9,000 to $15,000 every year, forever, owning nothing. Build once and you own the app, the sponsor inventory, and the data. An independent build of this scope runs $60,000 to $150,000 at market rates; this is deliberate nonprofit and founding-customer pricing.

05 The plan

Start small, prove it, then grow.

Proof of concept: about $10,000

The core athlete experience at one flagship event: schedules, groups, phone sign-up, notifications. See it work with real athletes before committing to the full build. (October and November 2026)

Full build: about $40,000, nonprofit pricing

All three sides, offline volunteer mode with results capture, live day-of updates, sponsorship placements, and CRM integration. (Winter 2026 into spring 2027)

Live pilot at your 2027 events

A soft launch at the Colorado Senior Games in June, then the flagship launch at the Rocky Mountain State Games in July, with a metrics report for your sponsors and your board.

Structured so a presenting sponsor can underwrite the build, and so the first step stays low-risk.

06 Why NeuralBuilt

Already shipping. Already on the App Store.

This is not a concept from an agency you’ll never meet again. NeuralBuilt apps are live on the App Store today, published and maintained by the person you’d be working with. The foundation your app needs is already proven in production.

Elevate Community & Faith

A native iOS community platform: groups, events, feeds, and messaging. The same architecture your athletes and volunteers would use.

Live on the App Store since April 2026

Just Do Sales

A native iOS community and training app built for a national sales community: content, cohorts, and engagement.

Live on the App Store since May 2026

And live on the web, in production today

RoofOS

A full operations platform for roofing companies: CRM, scheduling, and AI voice agents.

roofos.co

RoofOS Loss Calculator

A live estimation tool used in real sales conversations.

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Stewart Remodeling

Design, build, and launch for a Colorado remodeling contractor.

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Capture Life Photography

Production site for a working photography business.

capturelife.photo

Apps live on the App Store

Local

To Colorado Springs

100%

Owned by you: app, inventory, data

Next step

Let’s put your real numbers in.

Two things turn the model above from smart estimates into your actual return: your current sponsor rate card, and your most recent Rocky Mountain State Games registration count. With those, this becomes a specific, numbers-backed case your leadership can approve.

Talk it through with Trey

trey@neuralbuilt.ai · (719) 367-7989