Business model
Sample dataPay to see the data.
Never to change it.
A camp fee pays for the testing day. A monthly membership gives athletes and families the platform and the data behind their record. Programs, leagues, media and researchers licence that same verified data from the other side. None of it buys a grade.
Athletes & families
Two things you pay for. Neither is a result.
Ascend Combine entry
Per event
The camp fee covers the camp: certified evaluators, calibrated equipment, venue, insurance and the audit trail behind your results.
- — Protocol-controlled testing day
- — Evidence attached to every metric
- — Verified entry in your Passport
- — Clear breakdown of what the fee covered
Athlete & Family membership
Monthly
Access to the platform and the data behind your record — for the athlete and the people supporting them.
- — Your verified record and full history
- — Position benchmarks and percentiles
- — Side-by-side comparisons
- — Sharing controls and a live access log
Your verified record belongs to you and stays readable even if a membership lapses. A membership opens the platform and the data — it can never edit, add to or improve a verified result.
The other side
The same data, licensed from the other side.
One verified record, measured the same way everywhere, is the asset. Access to it — at the depth and scale an organisation needs — is what gets paid for.
College programs
Per program, per season
The verified recruiting database for a staff that wants to stop guessing.
- — Search every verified athlete
- — Recruiting boards and staff notes
- — Prospect alerts on your target profile
- — Scouting briefs that cite their evidence
Leagues & federations
Annual licence
Testing at scale and bulk access across every member club.
- — League-wide combine testing
- — Bulk verified data access
- — Norms for that league and age band
- — Protocol and device documentation
Media & fantasy
Annual licence
Verified numbers for broadcast, fantasy and analytics products.
- — Structured data feeds
- — Position norms and percentiles
- — Multi-year development curves
- — Attribution requirements
Researchers & brands
Custom
Sport-science research and clearly disclosed sponsor benchmarks.
- — De-identified research access
- — Study and publication review
- — Sponsored benchmarks, labelled
- — No influence on any grade
Tiers and wording shown here are placeholders pending confirmation. No dollar figures are published yet, and no licence unlocks a better grade or a higher ranking.
Guardrails
What money can never buy.
No paid grades
Entry fees, memberships and licences never change a verification status, a grade or a ranking.
No paid placement
Search and rankings are ordered by measured data. Sponsored anything is labelled and separate.
No manipulation
Verified results are written only by Ascend evaluators at an event. A player or family can never edit, add to or improve one.
Consent, logged
A program sees a record only when the athlete allows it. Every access is recorded and revocable.
Ascend absorbs the cost of the event.
Memberships and data licences fund the calendar, so an event can run at our cost and still publish results nobody paid for.