About NILSportsTech

Every athlete gets their own tech stack.

NILSportsTech is infrastructure for athlete entrepreneurship: branded apps, payments, community, booking, commerce, content, AI, teams, and travel tools in one platform.

Start as an athlete Back to landing
Own the relationship Your app, your domain, your audience, your data.
Monetize cleanly Stripe Connect, shop, market, booking, and payout visibility.
Create faster Ask NIL, edit episodes, generate visuals, code tools, and search the web.
Scale beyond one athlete Teams, parents, collectives, rosters, approvals, and admin access.
Why we built it

Not another marketplace. A home base.

Athletes should not have to rent attention from a platform that owns the audience. NILSportsTech gives athletes a place to build around their own name.

The NIL landscape changed everything. Student athletes could finally profit from their name, image, and likeness, but too many platforms want to sit in the middle, take a cut, and control the athlete's relationship with supporters.

We saw it differently. Every athlete should be able to launch their own app, build their own brand, sell directly, collect bookings, publish media, manage supporters, and keep what they earn minus standard payment processing.

That is why NILSportsTech exists: to give every athlete their own tech stack.

NIL is ownership. Your app should not be a profile buried inside someone else's platform. It should be your operating system.
What we believe

Built around control.

Simple principle: the athlete should own the brand, the tools, the customer relationship, and the upside.

Athlete-first

Every product choice starts with whether it helps athletes launch, earn, connect, or operate better.

Ownership

Your app, brand, data, content, revenue paths, and audience should stay centered around you.

Infrastructure

Apps, commerce, booking, payments, AI, media, community, hotels, and team tools in one stack.

Transparency

No confusing pitch. No fake hype. Just clear tools athletes, parents, teams, and collectives can use.

The team

Built close to the athlete.

NILSportsTech started from firsthand athlete experience and real relationships across North Carolina sports.

Thomas Allen

Thomas Allen

Founder

D1 basketball at Nebraska and NC State. First class of NIL athletes in 2021. Self-taught developer.

Kerry Smith

Kerry Smith

Partnerships & Athlete Relations

Founder of Triangle Hoops with deep sports relationships and direct connections across athletes, teams, and programs.

Launch your sports app.

Your name. Your stack. Your business.

Start as an athlete