Fastbreak AI: The Smartest Team in Sports
Sports scheduling has always been a complex challenge. Leagues and event organizers struggle to balance venue availability, travel, player rest, and TV broadcast priorities. Manual scheduling is practically impossible: there are simply too many variables and competing priorities.
In youth sports, the problem is even bigger. Fragmentation across sports and levels and lack of standardized technology drive chaotic event planning, unhappy stakeholders, and many missed opportunities.
Fastbreak AI delivers the optimization sports organizations need to streamline operations and maximize revenue.
OUR MISSION
Fastbreak AI’s mission is to optimize the business of sports, helping sports organizations large and small work smarter and generate more revenue through AI-driven scheduling, operations, and sponsorship solutions.
Our Story
John Stewart knows the world of complex logistics. He was a co-founder and the CEO of MapAnything, a software company that solved large-scale scheduling and travel challenges for field sales and service teams. But, when advanced math and cloud computing power failed to solve travel efficiency problems at scale, John connected with Dr. Chris Groer and Dr. Tim Carnes. Both are experts in mathematical optimization, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), and they set out to build a team to optimize routing and scheduling for large teams and fleets.
They successfully accomplished their mission, and Salesforce acquired MapAnything in 2019. The team was ready for its next challenge.
Scheduling in sports is similar to the fundamental optimization problems in field service. However, sports schedules involve new types of constraints, and they are even more difficult than the travel & logistics problem the team had solved in the past. They saw a massive opportunity to transform sports operations using AI.
In July 2022, Fastbreak AI was born — to develop the most advanced sports scheduling engine in the world. Fastbreak AI hit the ground running. Within months, the company secured venture funding and signed its first professional sports league client: the NBA.
To accelerate growth, Fastbreak acquired market leader Optimal Planning Solutions in 2024. That company was one of the few scheduling services in professional sports. With this move, Fastbreak became the world leader in professional sports scheduling, working with leagues like the NFL, NHL, MLB, MiLB, and MLS.
From Professional to Youth Sports
The Fastbreak team now sees another, even bigger opportunity: youth sports.
Youth sports tournaments struggle with the same inefficient scheduling and operational complexity, but it’s all crammed into a few days. Unlike professional sports, youth tournament operators lack the resources and time, and only had access to rudimentary scheduling technology.
The company is now offering its professional-grade scheduling engine to youth tournaments in Fastbreak Compete, a tournament management platform that gives youth and amateur sports organizers immediate access to better scheduling, travel solutions, fans ticketing and sponsorship opportunities.
Fastbreak AI has become the ultimate AI-powered sports operations engine. With a growing team of software experts, including eight PhDs in AI, data science and optimization, the company is solving sports’ biggest logistical and revenue challenges.
Fastbreak AI is now applying its professional-grade scheduling engine to youth tournaments, starting with a tournament management platform acquisition that will give organizers immediate access to better scheduling, travel solutions, and sponsorship opportunities.
The Future of Sports Operations
Fastbreak AI has become the ultimate AI-powered sports operations engine. With a growing team of software experts, including eight PhDs in AI, data science and optimization, the company is solving sports’ biggest logistical and revenue challenges.
- No one has built a scheduling engine like this before.
- No other company has the AI expertise to do it.
- No other platform is as deeply embedded in professional and youth sports.
Fastbreak AI is redefining sports logistics, optimizing every game, and unlocking new revenue for leagues, teams, and tournament organizers.
The future of sports scheduling and operations is here. Fastbreak AI is leading the way.
