The Press BoxIssue N°01 · July 15, 2026

The workflow issue

A new canvas for automations, coach intel everywhere you look, and the small habits that make a scouting week run itself.

The Press BoxN°01

Best practices

The Playbook

How the best staffs run their week

Recruiting seasons are won on process. This issue's plays are about setting things up once so the information comes to you — instead of you going out to chase it every morning.

Build alerts like a scout, not a fisherman

When you set up a portal watch alert, spell out everything you care about: division, position, record status, the works. Alerts match exactly what you tell them to — a loose net drags in the whole portal, and an inbox full of maybes is worse than no inbox at all.

A good test: if a ping arrived right now, mid-practice, would you want to read it? If the honest answer is “only if he’s a left-footed center back,” then “left-footed center back” belongs in the alert. You can always run a broader search by hand when you have time to sift.

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“An alert that pings for everything is an alert you'll mute by Friday.”

Start broad, cut twice

The staffs getting the most out of their assistants work in passes. First pass: go wide — every player in the division who fits the rough shape. Second pass: tighten in follow-ups. Ask for the same list minus anyone under a certain games-played mark, then again sorted by the number you actually recruit on.

When the list looks right, save it to a sheet. The sheet is the artifact — it's what you mark up in the side panel, share with the staff, and come back to next week. The conversation is the scratch paper; the sheet is the whiteboard.

Tips & tricks

Chalk Talk

Five small things that add up

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Paste big, stay tidy
Paste a long block of notes into the chat box and it collapses into a chip so it doesn't swallow your message. Click the chip to expand it back into the box and edit before sending.
02
Edit sheets by hand
Flip the Edit toggle on any sheet in the side panel and every cell becomes click-to-type. Add rows, delete rows, fix a hometown — changes save on their own, and every version is kept if you need to walk one back.
03
Change lanes mid-conversation
No need to start over to look at another division. Just say it — “now show me the same thing in D2” — and your assistant switches scope and keeps the thread.
04
Flip the globe for fresh context
The globe toggle on the chat box lets your assistant check the open web — commitment news, injury reports, things the record book doesn't have yet. Pro and Max plans.
05
Ask about the coach, too
Mention a coach by name and you'll get a compact card inline — role, school, career stops. Useful for knowing who you're calling before you call.

New releases

Fresh Ink

What shipped since last time

A big two weeks. Everything below is live for all accounts today unless noted.

A new canvas for automations

The automations builder got a ground-up redesign. Pick a trigger from the new picker, stack plain-language “If” cards to narrow it down, and publish when it's ready — or keep it as a draft while you tinker. It reads like a play card now, not a settings page.

See automations →

Coach profiles go public

Every coach now has a shareable profile page with their career history, season by season and school by school. Look up a staff before the home visit, or send your own page instead of a bio paragraph.

Coach cards, right in the conversation

When a coach comes up in a conversation, your assistant drops in a card — no detour to a search page. Career context arrives exactly where the question was asked.

Web search lands in every assistant

Toggle the globe and your assistant can reach the open web to fill in what the record book can't — breaking news, local coverage, roster moves that happened an hour ago. Pro and Max plans.

Football opens on the developer API

FBS, FCS, and the California community colleges are now available on the public /v1 endpoints. If you build on the API, football is ready for you.

Read the docs →

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Build alerts like a scout, not a fisherman

Start broad, cut twice

Paste big, stay tidy

Edit sheets by hand

Change lanes mid-conversation

Flip the globe for fresh context