Trust and Safety

Why I'm building this

Hey, I'm Patrick. I'm not only a dad and a coach, I'm also an AI builder.

I started building Softball Recruiting OS because I watched recruiting take over my kitchen table. My daughter had school lists in one place, camp dates in another, coach emails in her inbox, and notes in a spreadsheet nobody could find. Every week we were connecting the pieces by hand.

Coaching showed me the other side. Her coaches wanted to help every kid on the roster, but nobody can track every player's list, every camp, and every follow-up in their head. Good kids fall through the cracks that way.

So I'm building the home base I wanted for my own family. One place to research D1, D2, D3, NAIA, and JUCO programs, about 1,400 of them, plan camps, and keep the next step clear. The player leads. The family helps.

How we treat athlete data

Many of the athletes who use SROS are 13 to 17. I built it the way I'd want it built for my own kid.

• We do not sell personal information. We do not share it for advertising.
• We do not run advertising or analytics trackers.
• Each household's information is kept separate in the database.
• A profile starts private. Nothing is public until the athlete chooses to publish it, and a published profile lives at an unlisted address that search engines are told not to index.
• We remove GPS and device location from the photos we keep.
• If you connect Gmail, we only ask for permission to send the messages you write. We do not ask to read your inbox, and the connection credential is encrypted.
• SROS never sends messages to coaches on its own. The athlete decides what goes out.
• You can ask us to delete your account at any time by emailing privacy@sros.team.

The full details are in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Why every account is reviewed

A person reviews every household and every coach that signs up before they can use the app. That is how we keep the people inside SROS real. Sign-up checks age, and no one under 13 can create an account. If we decline a sign-up, we delete the account and the information that came with it.

Review takes a little time, and that is on purpose. We would rather be careful with athletes than be fast.

Questions? Write to privacy@sros.team.