Fastbreak AI: The Smartest Team in Sports
Sports leagues cannot operate without schedules, yet balancing venue availability, travel, player rest, competitive fairness, and broadcast priorities has become one of the most complex challenges in sports. The sheer number of variables and competing constraints makes manual scheduling nearly impossible at scale.
In youth sports, the problem is even bigger. Fragmentation across sports and levels and lack of standardized technology result in disorganized event planning, unhappy stakeholders, and many missed opportunities.
Fastbreak AI delivers the optimization sports organizations need to streamline operations and efficiently grow revenue.
OUR MISSION
Fastbreak AI powers the people who make sports exceptional by bringing elite operational intelligence to the entire sports ecosystem.
Our Story
Fixture scheduling is deceptively brutal math. A professional sports season involves thousands of games, hundreds of teams, and constraints that fight each other on every line: travel burden, rest equity, broadcast windows, rivalry placement, venue conflicts and competitive fairness. Add a single variable, and the number of possible schedules explodes into the trillions. Add the wrong one and the season breaks.
It’s the same family of optimization problems that defeats logistics companies, airlines, and field service operations. In sports, it’s harder. Until recently, most leagues solved it the way they had for decades: with spreadsheets, sticky notes, and a few people who held the answer in their heads.
A Team Wired for the Hardest Problems in Optimization
John Stewart knows complex logistics. He was co-founder and CEO of MapAnything, a software company that tackled large-scale scheduling and travel for field sales and service teams. When advanced math and cloud computing alone could not solve travel efficiency at scale, John connected with Dr. Chris Groer and Dr. Tim Carnes, two of the world’s leading minds in mathematical optimization, machine learning, and AI.
Together, they cracked routing and scheduling for some of the largest fleets in the world.Salesforce acquired MapAnything in 2019, and the team was ready for their next challenge.Sports scheduling looked familiar at first. Same family of combinatorial optimization problems. But it carried constraints field service never sees: competitive balance, broadcast value, athlete recovery, venue availability, and league rules that ripple across an entire season.
In July 2022, John, Chris, and Tim co-founded Fastbreak AI.
From Zero to the World’s Biggest Leagues
Within months of launch, Fastbreak secured venture funding and signed its first pro sports customers: the NBA and SEC.In 2024, Fastbreak acquired Optimal Planning Solutions, one of the few specialized scheduling services in professional sports, making Fastbreak the world leader in pro scheduling with customers including the NBA, NHL, MLS, MiLB, and the SEC.
In 2025, Fastbreak acquired Barcelogic, the leading sports scheduling solution in Europe, bringing LaLiga, Ligue 1, Serie A, and Eredivisie into the fold. Also that year, Ben Brantly, John’s co-founder at MapAnything, joined as Chief Technology Officer to lead engineering and product as the company scaled.Today, Fastbreak Pro Schedule builds the fixtures for over 65 professional leagues worldwide.
Bringing Pro-Grade Technology to Amateur Sports
Pro leagues are not the only sports organizations with hard optimization problems. Amateur tournaments, clubs and leagues face the same challenges fitting teams into venues, except they compress hundreds of games into a single weekend, usually with fewer resources and staff. The technology available to them is generally as good as a spreadsheet.
So Fastbreak put its professional-grade scheduling inside Fastbreak AI for tournaments, the end-to-end platform that gives tournament directors, club administrators, and league operators the same intelligence that powers the NBA. Registration, scheduling, scoring, ticketing, website management, communications, travel, and sponsorships in one connected platform.Pro-level technology, accessible to the people running sports at every level.
The Future of Sports Operations
Fastbreak AI leads the category it created: AI-powered sports operations. Behind the platform is a core AI team with multiple PhDs in machine learning, data science, and optimization, and a track record of solving the kinds of problems most companies don't know how to start.
- No one has built a scheduling system like this before.
- No other company in sports has the AI expertise to match it.
- No one else is solving operations across professional, amateur, and youth sports.
Fastbreak AI is redefining sports logistics, optimizing every season, and unlocking new revenue for leagues and tournament organizers.
The future of sports operations is here.
