PlayWize

What PlayWize does

PlayWize Technology Inc., operating under the brand OpenSport, is a Vancouver-based private company founded in 2017 that sells an explainable AI platform to elite sports performance teams. The OpenSport platform ingests data from existing GPS systems, wearables, and third-party performance tools via API integration and transforms that raw data into mobile-first, decision-ready outputs for coaches and performance staff. Core capabilities include threshold-driven automated alerts triggered when physical thresholds are breached, instant post-practice session summaries generated upon data receipt, and a conversational query interface that accepts natural, sport-specific language rather than spreadsheet formulas. The system is built around a three-stage human-in-the-loop model — Detect (rule-based alerts), Explain (contextual signals), and Act (AI-supported interpretation for human decision-making) — designed to augment rather than replace professional judgment.

Name

PlayWize

Legal name

PlayWize Technology Inc.

Website

https://playwize.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

PlayWize (OpenSport) is a Vancouver-based SaaS company that provides an explainable AI platform converting GPS and wearable data from elite sports teams into mobile-first, decision-ready alerts, summaries, and natural-language queries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Cloud-based AI platform subscription model for performance teams. Pricing appears quote-based through pilot program application. The platform connects to existing data sources (GPS systems, wearables) and delivers mobile-first insights, suggesting a per-organization or usage-based SaaS structure.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

PlayWize operates OpenSport, an explainable AI SaaS platform that connects to athletes' existing GPS systems, wearables, and third-party performance tools via API integration. It converts raw sports performance data into mobile-first, decision-ready intelligence for elite performance teams, delivering threshold-driven alerts, instant session summaries, and conversational natural-language queries to coaches and performance staff. The product is sold on an annual subscription basis through an enterprise pilot program.

Product overview

OpenSport is a single unified product platform that provides explainable AI for performance teams. The core offering includes threshold-driven automated alerts, instant post-practice session summaries, and conversational queries in natural sport-specific language. The platform connects to existing data sources (GPS systems, wearables, third-party tools) via API key integration and delivers decision-ready intelligence through a mobile-first interface.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• OpenSport Explainable AI SaaS platform for elite sports performance teams that connects to existing GPS systems, wearables, and third-party performance tools via API to deliver mobile-first, decision-ready intelligence. Features include threshold-driven alerts, instant post-practice session summaries, and conversational natural-language queries in sport-specific language, all structured around a Detect-Explain-Act human-in-the-loop AI framework.

Quantifiable outcome

• Identify meaningful fatigue or performance signals in time to act
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Stats Perform: Stats Perform supplies data and AI-driven sports analytics to leagues, broadcasters, betting operators and teams across global sport. Comparable as an elite-team and league analytics counterpart, with a much wider portfolio but overlapping data-to-decision workflows.
• Zebra Technologies (Sports / NFL Tracking): Zebra Technologies' RFID/location-tracking business powers NFL player-tracking and adjacent league data, with analytics offered to teams and broadcast partners. Comparable to OpenSport as an elite-sports analytics and tracking provider, but as a large incumbent with broader hardware identity.
• Hudl: Hudl is a broad sports performance platform combining video analysis, wearables and team workflows spanning elite, college and youth. Comparable to OpenSport as a performance intelligence platform serving sports teams, though OpenSport's niche is more elite-focused and AI-led.

Direct peers

• STATSports: STATSports provides GPS-based athlete tracking units and a connected analytics platform used by elite soccer, rugby and field-sport teams. Comparable to OpenSport because it sells a layered performance-data solution targeting the same elite performance staff.
• Sportlogiq: Sportlogiq applies computer-vision and AI to elite team sports analytics (hockey, soccer, football) for coaches and performance staff. Comparable to OpenSport as an AI-first analytics vendor selling decision-support intelligence to elite coaches.
• Kitman Labs: Kitman Labs is an AI-driven athlete performance and injury management platform used by professional and elite sports organizations (NFL, NBA, soccer). Most direct competitor to OpenSport's AI-augmented, human-in-the-loop performance workflows.
• Kinexon: Kinexon provides real-time indoor and outdoor athlete tracking plus an analytics platform used across team sports and league operations. Overlaps with OpenSport on the integrated tracking-plus-intelligence proposition for elite teams.
• Catapult Sports: Catapult is the dominant GPS-and-analytics platform for elite sports teams, with hardware plus an analytics layer (Vector/OpenField) used across NFL, Premier League, rugby and Olympic programs. Directly comparable to OpenSport as an elite-team performance intelligence platform.

Others

• Polar Electro: Polar makes athlete-grade heart-rate monitors and GPS watches whose data is integrated into team and individual training workflows. Adjacent to OpenSport as a wearable data source feeding the same performance analytics layer, rather than a direct analytics competitor.

Emerging players

• WHOOP: WHOOP is a wearable-and-software platform delivering recovery, strain and sleep intelligence, increasingly adopted by professional athletes and organizations. Partial overlap with OpenSport where WHOOP's recovery and strain analytics surface to performance teams, though sport-specific workflows and head-coach workflows differ.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

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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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