PRO SPORTS FRONT OFFICES
Your edge is already in the building. It's just scattered across twelve systems.
Your edge is already in the building. It's just scattered across twelve systems.
Contracts in a drive. The cap in a spreadsheet one person owns. Grades in the video platform. Six months of agent calls in an inbox. Fortress comes in as your operating partner — our people in your building, learning how the front office actually runs — and builds the connective tissue that turns all of it into one proprietary AI infrastructure the club owns.
Contracts in a drive. The cap in a spreadsheet one person owns. Grades in the video platform. Six months of agent calls in an inbox. Fortress comes in as your operating partner — our people in your building, learning how the front office actually runs — and builds the connective tissue that turns all of it into one proprietary AI infrastructure the club owns.
An operating partner who builds you an asset, not a vendor who sells you a licence.
An operating partner who builds you an asset, not a vendor who sells you a licence.
12+
12+
systems on one record
systems on one record
Contracts, cap, evaluations, availability, video, comms and league filings
Contracts, cap, evaluations, availability, video, comms and league filings
Your tenant
Your tenant
your data
your data
Deployed in your own environment, never a shared multi-club cloud
Deployed in your own environment, never a shared multi-club cloud
AmLaw 50
AmLaw 50
in production
in production
The same platform runs a top-50 law firm and a state judiciary today
The same platform runs a top-50 law firm and a state judiciary today
2027
2027
Salesforce
Salesforce
Partner of the Year for the platform engineering underneath it
Partner of the Year for the platform engineering underneath it
THE PROBLEM
Nothing is missing. It is just unreachable.
Nothing is missing. It is just unreachable.
Front offices rarely lose information. They lose access to it. The report exists — the person who wrote it left. The clause exists — on page fourteen of a PDF in a folder from 2022. The pattern exists — nobody has ever had all of it in one place at one time.
Front offices rarely lose information. They lose access to it. The report exists — the person who wrote it left. The clause exists — on page fourteen of a PDF in a folder from 2022. The pattern exists — nobody has ever had all of it in one place at one time.
The analyst who left took the model with him
The analyst who left took the model with him
The spreadsheet still opens. Nobody knows what the assumptions were, or which of the nine versions was the one you actually decided on.
The spreadsheet still opens. Nobody knows what the assumptions were, or which of the nine versions was the one you actually decided on.
The evaluation nobody re-read
The evaluation nobody re-read
Three years of grades on a player you are about to pay, sitting in a platform your cap analyst does not have a login for.
Three years of grades on a player you are about to pay, sitting in a platform your cap analyst does not have a login for.
The clause nobody remembered
The clause nobody remembered
Roster bonus triggers, guarantee vesting, no-trade windows — buried in PDFs and rediscovered the week they matter, not the month before.
Roster bonus triggers, guarantee vesting, no-trade windows — buried in PDFs and rediscovered the week they matter, not the month before.
The conversation with no record
The conversation with no record
Six months of calls with an agent, held entirely in one person’s memory, gone the day they take a job somewhere else.
Six months of calls with an agent, held entirely in one person’s memory, gone the day they take a job somewhere else.
The availability note the cap model never saw
The availability note the cap model never saw
Risk sits in one system and money sits in another, so the two never meet in the same room before you commit the years.
Risk sits in one system and money sits in another, so the two never meet in the same room before you commit the years.
The precedent you already set
The precedent you already set
How your organization handled this exact negotiation two years ago is the best guide you have, and it is the hardest thing in the building to find.
How your organization handled this exact negotiation two years ago is the best guide you have, and it is the hardest thing in the building to find.
None of that is a data problem. It is a connective tissue problem.
None of that is a data problem. It is a connective tissue problem.
Every club in your league has roughly the same information. The advantage goes to the one that can assemble it fastest, in the room where the decision is being made.
Every club in your league has roughly the same information. The advantage goes to the one that can assemble it fastest, in the room where the decision is being made.
THE ARCHITECTURE
The connective tissue, built around how you already work.
The connective tissue, built around how you already work.
Once we understand how your front office actually operates, we build the layer that was never there. Fortress does not replace the tools your staff live in — it sits underneath them and makes them one organization, so a question asked in the draft room comes back with the contract, the grade, the availability flag and the cap number in the same answer.
Once we understand how your front office actually operates, we build the layer that was never there. Fortress does not replace the tools your staff live in — it sits underneath them and makes them one organization, so a question asked in the draft room comes back with the contract, the grade, the availability flag and the cap number in the same answer.
Which connections are live depends on the systems your club runs — we scope that on the first call and build what is missing. Ask for the current list before you assume anything.
CONTRACTS AND THE CAP
Every clause, modeled — not re-read.
Every clause, modeled — not re-read.
A contract is not a document. It is a set of dated obligations, triggers and options that move your cap for years. Fortress stores it that way: the paper stays attached, but the terms become structured data your models and your calendar can actually use.
A contract is not a document. It is a set of dated obligations, triggers and options that move your cap for years. Fortress stores it that way: the paper stays attached, but the terms become structured data your models and your calendar can actually use.
Terms extracted, not transcribed
Terms extracted, not transcribed
Guarantees, bonuses, escalators, vesting dates, no-trade and option windows come off the document as fields — each one linked back to the clause for verification.
Guarantees, bonuses, escalators, vesting dates, no-trade and option windows come off the document as fields — each one linked back to the clause for verification.
Cap scenarios in minutes, not evenings
Cap scenarios in minutes, not evenings
Model a restructure, an extension, a designation or a release against the live roster and see cap, cash and dead money side by side before the call.
Model a restructure, an extension, a designation or a release against the live roster and see cap, cash and dead money side by side before the call.
Nothing surprises you in March
Nothing surprises you in March
Dated triggers land on the calendar they actually hit, so a vesting guarantee is a decision you scheduled rather than one you discovered.
Dated triggers land on the calendar they actually hit, so a vesting guarantee is a decision you scheduled rather than one you discovered.
One version of the number
One version of the number
The cap figure in the GM’s dashboard, the analyst’s model and the ownership deck is the same figure, off the same record.
The cap figure in the GM’s dashboard, the analyst’s model and the ownership deck is the same figure, off the same record.
The spreadsheet stops being a single point of failure.
SCOUTING AND THE BOARD
The board is built from everything you know, not everything you remember.
The board is built from everything you know, not everything you remember.
A draft board is the most expensive opinion your organization forms all year, and it usually gets assembled from whatever the people in the room happened to have open. Fortress builds it off the whole record — every report, every grade, every flag, with attribution.
A draft board is the most expensive opinion your organization forms all year, and it usually gets assembled from whatever the people in the room happened to have open. Fortress builds it off the whole record — every report, every grade, every flag, with attribution.
Every report on one profile
Every report on one profile
Area scout, cross-check, national, the analytics model, availability and interview notes on a single record — with who said it, when, and on what evidence.
Area scout, cross-check, national, the analytics model, availability and interview notes on a single record — with who said it, when, and on what evidence.
Grades that stay comparable
Grades that stay comparable
A consistent scale enforced at entry, so a 6.4 from one evaluator means what a 6.4 from another means — and drift between evaluators is visible instead of invisible.
A consistent scale enforced at entry, so a 6.4 from one evaluator means what a 6.4 from another means — and drift between evaluators is visible instead of invisible.
A board the room can actually run
A board the room can actually run
Stack, tier, tag by need and scheme fit, and watch it move as picks come off — with your own value chart underneath the trade math.
Stack, tier, tag by need and scheme fit, and watch it move as picks come off — with your own value chart underneath the trade math.
Your own history is an input
Your own history is an input
How your evaluations aged across five drafts is data. The board shows which of your signals actually predicted outcomes and which ones never did.
How your evaluations aged across five drafts is data. The board shows which of your signals actually predicted outcomes and which ones never did.
The room argues about the player, not about whose list is current.
FREE AGENCY AND TRADES
Know the answer before the phone call, not after it.
Know the answer before the phone call, not after it.
Free agency and the deadline get decided in windows measured in minutes, on information that took months to gather. The gap between a good front office and a great one is almost entirely how fast it can assemble what it already knows.
Free agency and the deadline get decided in windows measured in minutes, on information that took months to gather. The gap between a good front office and a great one is almost entirely how fast it can assemble what it already knows.
Target boards with the money attached
Target boards with the money attached
Every target carries fit, grade, projected market, the cap room it needs and what it does to next year — on the same card, not in three files.
Every target carries fit, grade, projected market, the cap room it needs and what it does to next year — on the same card, not in three files.
Agent relationships with a memory
Agent relationships with a memory
Every conversation, offer, counter and outcome, organised by agent and by agency, so you walk into the next negotiation carrying the last five.
Every conversation, offer, counter and outcome, organised by agent and by agency, so you walk into the next negotiation carrying the last five.
Trade scenarios that respect the rules
Trade scenarios that respect the rules
Cap, cash, picks and roster effect modeled together, with league constraints checked while you build the deal rather than after you agree it.
Cap, cash, picks and roster effect modeled together, with league constraints checked while you build the deal rather than after you agree it.
Decisions leave a record
Decisions leave a record
What you offered, what you declined and the reasoning at the time — so next year’s front office learns from this year’s instead of starting over.
What you offered, what you declined and the reasoning at the time — so next year’s front office learns from this year’s instead of starting over.
Institutional memory that survives a staff change.
COMPLIANCE AND LEAGUE RULES
The rules encoded, the filings on time, the audit trail already written.
The rules encoded, the filings on time, the audit trail already written.
League rules are not optional, they move every CBA cycle, and the cost of getting one wrong is a fine, a forfeited pick or a headline. Encode them once, in one place, and let the system enforce them while the work is being done.
League rules are not optional, they move every CBA cycle, and the cost of getting one wrong is a fine, a forfeited pick or a headline. Encode them once, in one place, and let the system enforce them while the work is being done.
Rules as logic, not as a memo
Rules as logic, not as a memo
Cap floors, roster limits, tender deadlines, waiver mechanics and contact windows are checked automatically as transactions are built.
Cap floors, roster limits, tender deadlines, waiver mechanics and contact windows are checked automatically as transactions are built.
A filing calendar that runs itself
A filing calendar that runs itself
Contract submissions, roster transactions and league reporting are tasked, tracked and evidenced against the deadline rather than remembered.
Contract submissions, roster transactions and league reporting are tasked, tracked and evidenced against the deadline rather than remembered.
Every approval recorded
Every approval recorded
Who approved what, on what basis and when — an audit trail that already exists on the day the league asks for it.
Who approved what, on what basis and when — an audit trail that already exists on the day the league asks for it.
Updated when the CBA is
Updated when the CBA is
When the rules change, the logic changes in one place instead of in nine spreadsheets and one very experienced person’s head.
When the rules change, the logic changes in one place instead of in nine spreadsheets and one very experienced person’s head.
Compliance stops being a person and starts being a system.
THE AI OVERLAY
Trained on your organization, not on the internet.
Trained on your organization, not on the internet.
A general model can tell you what the CBA says. It cannot tell you what your front office decided, why it decided that, and what happened next. These assistants sit on top of your own record and answer in your context — with the sources attached.
A general model can tell you what the CBA says. It cannot tell you what your front office decided, why it decided that, and what happened next. These assistants sit on top of your own record and answer in your context — with the sources attached.
Ask the roster
Ask the roster
“What happens to our 2028 cap if we extend him now versus after the season?” Answered against your live contracts, not a public estimate.
“What happens to our 2028 cap if we extend him now versus after the season?” Answered against your live contracts, not a public estimate.
The pre-meeting brief
The pre-meeting brief
Every player on tomorrow’s agenda, assembled overnight: contract status, grades, availability, agent history, cap impact, comparable deals.
Every player on tomorrow’s agenda, assembled overnight: contract status, grades, availability, agent history, cap impact, comparable deals.
Contract reader
Contract reader
New paper in, structured terms out — every extracted field linked back to the clause it came from so a human can verify in one click.
New paper in, structured terms out — every extracted field linked back to the clause it came from so a human can verify in one click.
Comparable finder
Comparable finder
The deals that actually resemble the one on your desk, matched on structure and guarantee mechanics rather than on average annual value.
The deals that actually resemble the one on your desk, matched on structure and guarantee mechanics rather than on average annual value.
Report synthesis
Report synthesis
Twelve evaluations of one prospect condensed to where your people agree, where they split, and what the split is actually about.
Twelve evaluations of one prospect condensed to where your people agree, where they split, and what the split is actually about.
The watchdog
The watchdog
Vesting dates, option windows, tender deadlines and rule exposure surfaced while there is still time to decide, on the record they belong to.
Vesting dates, option windows, tender deadlines and rule exposure surfaced while there is still time to decide, on the record they belong to.
Nothing arrives unsourced
Every answer carries the document, report or record it came from. A staffer can open the source in one click, and an assistant never asserts something your organization has not written down somewhere. The overlay speeds up the work; it does not decide anything.
THE COMMAND CENTER
One screen the decision actually gets made on.
One screen the decision actually gets made on.
Not a reporting layer built after the fact. The same records your staff work in, rolled up so the people who have to decide can see the whole club at once — and click straight through to the thing underneath.
Not a reporting layer built after the fact. The same records your staff work in, rolled up so the people who have to decide can see the whole club at once — and click straight through to the thing underneath.
THE ENGAGEMENT
The team that built it is still there next season.
The team that built it is still there next season.
Most technology relationships end at go-live — which is the exact moment a front office’s needs start changing. A new CBA, a new analytics group, a new GM, a second sport. Fortress stays in the operating-partner seat: the same people, still building, still in the room.
Most technology relationships end at go-live — which is the exact moment a front office’s needs start changing. A new CBA, a new analytics group, a new GM, a second sport. Fortress stays in the operating-partner seat: the same people, still building, still in the room.
Embedded, not ticketed
Embedded, not ticketed
Named people who know your club, your rules and your vocabulary. Not a support queue, and not a roadmap you are seventh in line on.
Named people who know your club, your rules and your vocabulary. Not a support queue, and not a roadmap you are seventh in line on.
Built around your process
Built around your process
We do not hand you a generic front-office workflow and ask you to adopt it. The way your organization evaluates and decides is the thing you are protecting — so we build that.
We do not hand you a generic front-office workflow and ask you to adopt it. The way your organization evaluates and decides is the thing you are protecting — so we build that.
It keeps moving
It keeps moving
New CBA, new analytics group, new GM, a second sport. The platform changes because the team that built it is still sitting with you when it needs to.
New CBA, new analytics group, new GM, a second sport. The platform changes because the team that built it is still sitting with you when it needs to.
You own the result
You own the result
It runs on your own tenant. The data, the models, the workflows and the history are yours, and they stay yours whatever happens to the relationship.
It runs on your own tenant. The data, the models, the workflows and the history are yours, and they stay yours whatever happens to the relationship.
What that looks like in a season
Before the draft
The board, the value chart and the comparison tooling built and tested against last year’s class before it matters.
Through free agency
Target boards, cap scenarios and agent history live in the room, updated while the phone is ringing.
In the quiet months
The next thing your staff is doing by hand gets built — because that is when there is time to do it properly.
INFORMATION CONTROL
The most leak-sensitive information in your building, handled like it.
The most leak-sensitive information in your building, handled like it.
Evaluations, medical flags, trade conversations and what you are actually willing to pay. In this business the cost of that information moving is not a compliance fine — it is leverage handed to the club on the other end of the phone.
Evaluations, medical flags, trade conversations and what you are actually willing to pay. In this business the cost of that information moving is not a compliance fine — it is leverage handed to the club on the other end of the phone.
Your tenant, your data
Your tenant, your data
It runs in your own environment. Your evaluations, your flags and your negotiations do not sit in a vendor’s cloud alongside anyone else’s.
It runs in your own environment. Your evaluations, your flags and your negotiations do not sit in a vendor’s cloud alongside anyone else’s.
Never pooled across clubs
Never pooled across clubs
There is no league-wide dataset your information joins, and no benchmark product built out of what you put in. Your instance is yours.
There is no league-wide dataset your information joins, and no benchmark product built out of what you put in. Your instance is yours.
Access by role, enforced at the record
Access by role, enforced at the record
Medical sees medical. Scouting sees grades. The cap analyst sees money. Nobody sees everything because nobody got around to scoping it.
Medical sees medical. Scouting sees grades. The cap analyst sees money. Nobody sees everything because nobody got around to scoping it.
No training on your information
No training on your information
Your reports and contracts are not used to train models. Prompts and outputs stay inside your environment’s boundary.
Your reports and contracts are not used to train models. Prompts and outputs stay inside your environment’s boundary.
Every view logged
Every view logged
Who opened which evaluation, and when. If something gets out, you can see where it was read from rather than guessing.
Who opened which evaluation, and when. If something gets out, you can see where it was read from rather than guessing.
Departures handled on the day
Departures handled on the day
Access is revoked in one place, and everything that person built — reports, notes, deal history — stays with the organization.
Access is revoked in one place, and everything that person built — reports, notes, deal history — stays with the organization.
HOW THIS STARTS
A gap assessment first, then the build.
A gap assessment first, then the build.
Nobody should let a vendor start building until somebody has actually looked at what the front office runs on. So we look first, in writing, and you own the findings whether or not you go further.
Nobody should let a vendor start building until somebody has actually looked at what the front office runs on. So we look first, in writing, and you own the findings whether or not you go further.
01
Front Office Infrastructure Gap Assessment
20 business days · credited in full toward the build
Our people go through the whole front office — every system, spreadsheet, export, data flow and contract stack — and hand back a written assessment: where your information actually lives, where it contradicts itself, what it costs you to re-derive every cycle, and a build plan detailed enough to hand to anyone.
Our people go through the whole front office — every system, spreadsheet, export, data flow and contract stack — and hand back a written assessment: where your information actually lives, where it contradicts itself, what it costs you to re-derive every cycle, and a build plan detailed enough to hand to anyone.
System and spreadsheet inventory
Data quality and contradiction findings
Duplicated spend quantified
Proposed record model
Build plan and sequence
02
The build and the operating-partner seat
Our people on the ground throughout
We build the record model, the system connections, the command center and the AI overlay against your own history — then run it with your staff through a real draft, a real free agency window and a real deadline until it is how the building works.
Record model
Integrations
Command center
AI overlay
Training
In the room for the cycle
And then it compounds
Each workflow makes the next one cheaper, because the record is already there and the team already knows your club. The second build is not another project — it is an extension of the asset you already own.
WHERE IT COMES FROM
The platform already runs the two things a front office is made of.
The platform already runs the two things a front office is made of.
Fortress was built for organizations whose real asset is institutional knowledge, whose documents are contracts, whose deadlines are unforgiving and whose information cannot leak. That describes a top-50 law firm and a state judiciary. It also describes a front office.
Fortress was built for organizations whose real asset is institutional knowledge, whose documents are contracts, whose deadlines are unforgiving and whose information cannot leak. That describes a top-50 law firm and a state judiciary. It also describes a front office.
IN PRODUCTION
AmLaw 50 firm
AmLaw 50 firm
Nine practice groups live or in build, 415 licensed users active, and adoption that grew without a firm-wide mandate behind it.
Nine practice groups live or in build, 415 licensed users active, and adoption that grew without a firm-wide mandate behind it.
IN PRODUCTION
Big Four and a state judiciary
Big Four and a state judiciary
The same architecture on their own tenants, against their own confidentiality, records and security requirements.
The same architecture on their own tenants, against their own confidentiality, records and security requirements.
RECOGNISED
Salesforce Partner of the Year 2027
Salesforce Partner of the Year 2027
For the platform engineering underneath all of it — the part that is hard to see from a demo and expensive to get wrong.
For the platform engineering underneath all of it — the part that is hard to see from a demo and expensive to get wrong.
Why it maps to a front office
Structured contract terms. A grading and evaluation model with attribution. A decision record that outlives the people who made the decisions. A compliance calendar with real deadlines. A security model that survives an audit. We already build all five — every day, for organizations where getting them wrong is a lawsuit. A front office changes the vocabulary, not the architecture.
Pick the one thing your front office re-derives every cycle.
Pick the one thing your front office re-derives every cycle.
The board you rebuild every spring, the cap model one person owns, the agent history nobody can search. We will build it against your own data and show you what comes out.
The board you rebuild every spring, the cap model one person owns, the agent history nobody can search. We will build it against your own data and show you what comes out.
Start there
START WITH A DIAGNOSTIC
Give us your front office and twenty business days.
Every system inventoried, every contradiction in your data named, the cost of re-deriving it quantified, and a build plan you could hand to anyone. Credited in full if you go ahead — and yours either way. Every club has the same data; very few can ask it a question.
Proprietary to your club
Never pooled across clubs
Salesforce Partner of the Year 2027
START WITH A DIAGNOSTIC
Give us your front office and twenty business days.
Every system inventoried, every contradiction in your data named, the cost of re-deriving it quantified, and a build plan you could hand to anyone. Credited in full if you go ahead — and yours either way. Every club has the same data; very few can ask it a question.
Proprietary to your club
Never pooled across clubs
Salesforce Partner of the Year 2027
START WITH A DIAGNOSTIC
Give us your front office and twenty business days.
Every system inventoried, every contradiction in your data named, the cost of re-deriving it quantified, and a build plan you could hand to anyone. Credited in full if you go ahead — and yours either way. Every club has the same data; very few can ask it a question.
Proprietary to your club
Never pooled across clubs
Salesforce Partner of the Year 2027
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