Box Out Sports

What Box Out Sports does

Box Out Sports (legally Box Out Designs, LLC) is a privately held, bootstrapped SaaS company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Indiana that sells a subscription-based sports graphics platform to high school and college athletic programs, with limited reach into Minor League Baseball and eSports. The product enables athletic directors, sports information directors, coaches, and student staffers to produce branded social media graphics, motion videos, print-ready PDFs, and custom web pages without design expertise, using a library of 2,270+ customizable templates spanning 40+ sports, a 7,600+ team logo and brand database, and integrations that publish directly to Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.

The platform is built around template-driven graphics generation with AI-assisted features (AI caption suggestions, automated background removal, motion effects), automated roster import from photos/PDFs/spreadsheets/URLs, schedule syncing, social scheduling, automated sponsor placements, and role-based permissions for layered access control. Technology is delivered as a web-based SaaS with native multi-platform social integrations rather than a public API or SDK. The company operates without disclosed venture capital or institutional investment and runs on a product-led growth motion with a 2-week free trial, supplemented by an enterprise demo path via Calendly for larger organizations.

Monetization is a three-tier monthly/annual subscription — Basic at $60/month ($480/yr), Plus at $175/month ($1,500/yr), and Premium at $275/month ($2,400/yr) — with unlimited users and teams on every plan and a 50% annual billing discount. Named customers include Air Force Academy, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Georgia Tech, University of Missouri, Georgetown, Providence College, Army West Point, Jacksonville State University, and Buena Vista University, alongside high school programs such as Roger Bacon and Penn High School. The Automated Sponsor Placements feature creates an indirect revenue outcome for schools averaging $6,000 per year, positioning the platform as both a productivity and a monetization tool for athletic programs.

Name

Box Out Sports

Legal name

Box Out Designs, LLC

Website

https://boxoutsports.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Box Out Sports is a SaaS sports graphics platform that enables high school and college athletic programs to produce branded social media graphics, motion videos, and print collateral via a library of 2,270+ templates and integrated social publishing, sold as a tiered monthly subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sports Graphics SaaS

NAICS

Spectator Sports (71121)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAKAKAK

Sports Fundraising & Development Services (Foundations, NIL Collectives Support)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Sports (Leagues, Teams, Events, Venues)/Sports Management & Promotion Services

Keywords

• Sports graphics software
• Athletic content creation
• Social media templates
• Motion graphics platform
• Team branding tools

Headquarters

HQ city

South Bend

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription Plans: Three-tier subscription model offering monthly and annual billing options. Basic tier at $60/month, Plus at $175/month, and Premium at $275/month. Annual plans offer significant savings (50% discount). All plans include unlimited users and teams.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Box Out Sports operates a SaaS platform that enables athletic departments at high schools, colleges, universities, and minor league sports organizations to create professional social media graphics, motion graphics, and print-ready PDFs without design skills. The platform combines a 2,270+ sports-specific template library, a 7,600+ team logo database, AI-powered caption generation, automated roster import, sponsor placement, and native social media publishing across Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, Bluesky, and LinkedIn, sold via three subscription tiers.

Product overview

Box Out Sports is a unified SaaS platform for creating professional social media graphics for sports teams and athletic programs. The core platform combines a graphics creation engine with over 2,270 customizable templates across 40+ sports categories, motion graphics capabilities, and AI-powered features. Key product modules include AI Suggestions for automated caption generation, Multi-Share for cross-platform social posting, Roster Import for automated player data integration, Automated Sponsor Placements for revenue generation, PDF Graphics for print content, Dashboard for workflow management, and User Permissions for team access control. The platform integrates natively with major social networks (Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn) for direct posting and resharing. Pricing tiers (Basic at $60/mo, Plus at $175/mo, Premium at $275/mo) differentiate by template count and feature access including video templates, opponent/player databases, and live stats integration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Box Out Sports Platform SaaS subscription platform enabling athletic departments at high schools, colleges, universities, and minor league sports organizations to create professional social media graphics, motion graphics, PDFs, and branded web pages without design skills, via customizable templates, AI-powered features, and native social media publishing.
• Graphics Library (Templates)

Quantifiable outcome

• Average still graphic turnaround time of 1.2 seconds
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability6 records

Feature9 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Finalsite: School-marketing platform providing websites, communications, and content tools for K-12 and independent schools. Comparable customer base to Box Out's high school segment with adjacent content creation and brand management functionality.

Direct peers

• Snappa: Self-serve graphic design tool with a heavy template library and social media focus. Comparable on the PLG, template-led workflow that Box Out uses for sports organizations.
• Marq (formerly Lucidpress): Brand-templated design platform with strong permissions and brand-consistency features for distributed teams. Comparable to Box Out's user permissions and brand-consistency controls across athletic programs.
• PosterMyWall: Template-driven design platform targeting schools, sports teams, and small businesses for social media graphics and event marketing. Closely comparable to Box Out's core use case of fast, template-based sports and school graphics.
• RelayThat: Automated multi-format graphic design tool that generates on-brand variations from a single design. Overlaps directly with Box Out's multi-format graphics feature that creates optimized variants for different social channels.
• Visme: Template-driven design platform for presentations, social graphics, and branded content. Comparable template-and-brand-kit workflow that overlaps with Box Out's graphic-creation motion for non-designers.
• Piktochart: Template-based design tool for infographics, social media graphics, and reports. Overlaps with Box Out on templated content creation for organizations without design resources.

Emerging players

• PrestoSports: Athletic-department platform providing websites, statistics, and content tools for college sports programs. Comparable target customer (college athletic departments) with partial overlap in graphics and content workflow needs.

Broad incumbents

• Canva: Generalist design platform with a massive template library, AI design tools, and brand kits. Competes with Box Out on the underlying graphic creation workflow but lacks Box Out's sports-specific template depth and opponent/team logo database.
• Adobe Express: Adobe's lightweight design tool positioned against Canva with template-driven social graphics creation. Overlaps with Box Out's templated graphic creation but targets a much broader audience without sports specialization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BoxOutSports
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/box-out-sports

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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