For federations

The data layer
the pyramid of swimming
has always needed.

For the federations responsible for the long-term health of the sport. Not a vendor pitch. An invitation to engagement.

The structural problem

Federations have records.
Clubs have training.
The layer between has never existed.

Most national governing bodies see their sport through quarterly reports and meet results. The day-to-day life of swimming — what 200,000 athletes are actually doing in pools every Tuesday — has been invisible to them. Until now.

The pyramid of swimming Four tiers from federation to athlete, with a gap in the middle showing where SchoolFish sits. FEDERATION Records, rankings, sanctioned events REGION / ASSOCIATION Regional meets, talent pipelines THE MISSING LAYER Daily training data · Cross-club intelligence SchoolFish CLUB Training, athletes, coaches ATHLETE PBs, sessions, the lifelong record

What every federation knows but doesn’t see.

The federation knows when a swimmer breaks a national record. The federation does not know that, six months earlier, that swimmer's training volume dropped 30% during a difficult school term and they came back stronger. The federation knows quarterly meet results. It does not know how many of its registered athletes actually swam this week.

The data exists. It lives in coaches’ spreadsheets, parents’ WhatsApp groups, and clubs’ paper logbooks. SchoolFish is the platform that makes it legible — without asking the federation to operate anything.

What we offer

The data layer between meet results and daily training. Anonymized. Aggregated. Available to federations as read-only access from clubs in the Community posture.

What we offer

Three things federations have never had.

None of them require the federation to operate the platform, train staff, or sign a vendor contract.

01

Real-time rankings, across the entire pyramid.

Live rankings by age group, stroke, distance, and course (LCM/SCM/SCY). Updated continuously as Community-posture clubs log results. Filterable by region, club, federation affiliation.

  • Sanctioned virtual rankings
  • Cross-region comparison
  • Historical trend lines
02

Talent pipeline visibility, years before nationals.

See which 13-year-olds are on a development trajectory toward elite squads three to five years before they age into them. Make targeted investment, identify under-resourced regions, build pathways before athletes age out.

  • Age-group trajectory analysis
  • Regional development heatmaps
  • At-risk swimmer identification
03

LXF / Lenex round-trip, native.

The data standard your federation already uses, supported natively. Existing meet results flow into SchoolFish; rankings flow back out in the formats your existing systems accept. No file conversion. No manual entry.

  • FINA-adopted standard
  • Read and write
  • Existing workflows preserved
The terms of engagement

What we ask of federations.
What we never ask of federations.

Federations are not customers. Federations are stewards. The relationship has to reflect that — in the platform, in the contracts, and in the public commitments.

What we ask

  • Endorsement: a recommendation to your member clubs that SchoolFish is a serious, safeguarding-grade platform worth evaluating.
  • Co-branding at sanctioned events where the federation believes our involvement adds value to athletes and coaches.
  • Honest input on what the official data layer of the sport should look like, and what it must never become.
  • Access to federation legal and safeguarding leadership for a single conversation about the Data Trust document.

What we never ask

  • Money. The federation never pays SchoolFish — for the platform, for access, for anything.
  • Exclusivity. We will never ask the federation to lock out smaller platforms or competing infrastructure providers.
  • Anything that compromises the federation’s neutrality with respect to other vendors, clubs, or commercial partners.
  • Data ownership. The federation’s data is the federation’s. The clubs’ data is the clubs’. Ours is the layer that connects them.
Governance and the Data Trust

The corpus, governed.

The cross-club AI knowledge layer is the long-term moat of SchoolFish. It is also the highest-stakes piece of the platform from a safeguarding standpoint. It needs governance the federation can sign off on.

We commit to a public Data Trust document that codifies how the corpus is built, used, and constrained. It is not a privacy policy. It is a governance instrument — reviewable by federation legal, auditable by federation safeguarding officers, and binding on us regardless of who owns SchoolFish in the future.

The document is in development, with publication targeted for Q3 2026 — before the first federation partnership is announced. Federations evaluating us before then can request the working draft under NDA.

The six commitments shown opposite are the operational principles the document will codify. They are stable; they will not change between now and publication.

The six Data Trust commitments

  • Anonymization. Athlete names, dates of birth, and identifying metadata stripped from the corpus before training.
  • Retention. Corpus contributions retained only while the contributing club maintains Community posture.
  • Deletion-on-withdrawal. An individual athlete can request deletion of their contributions; honored within 30 days.
  • Audit trail. Every model trained on the corpus carries a manifest of which clubs contributed.
  • Third-party review. A named third party with safeguarding credentials reviews the Data Trust annually. Reports published.
  • No raw data sale. The corpus is used to train models that ship inside SchoolFish products. It is never sold, licensed, or shared.
Engage

Federations don’t fill out marketing forms.

So we don’t make you. Engagement starts with a single conversation — between a named human at SchoolFish and the federation officials responsible for the integrity of the sport.

Direct contact
federations@schoolfish.ai
Personal response within 5 business days.
For Data Trust review
trust@schoolfish.ai
Working draft available under NDA. Q3 2026 public publication.