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Sarasota Paradise

American recruitment, and a weekly stats post to go with it

Sarasota Paradise play in USL League Two on Florida's Gulf coast. Since 2024 the club has used our platform for recruitment, and our data turns up on its Instagram feed every week.

The Paradise had just won their division and reached the playoffs for the first time when the club decided the scouting operation had to grow with everything else. Recruitment in the American lower leagues is a wide net thrown by hand. A platform that profiles and ranks players on the same KPIs turns it into a shortlist.

Marcus Walfridson, who owns the club's controlling company Audigr Group, invested in PlaymakerAI in the autumn of 2024. That put the club close to the product, which has been useful for us. An American club asks different questions of a European data platform, and we hear them early.

The second use is public. Every week the club publishes Stats Thursday on Instagram, a post built on our numbers from the latest round. It is a small thing, and it does what a lot of clubs pay an agency for. It gives supporters something to argue about between matches, in the club's own voice.

We made a small but substantial contribution because we believe in the data and the AI-driven analytics, and we know it will be incredibly valuable when it comes to player recruitment, coaching, tactical decisions and team evaluations.
Marcus Walfridson Owner, Audigr Group

Recruitment

Player search and scouting reports used to shortlist and rank targets, so the staff can evaluate far more players than they can travel to watch.

Squad and opponent evaluation

Performance data on the club's own players and on upcoming opponents, used in coaching and tactical work through the USL League Two season.

Stats Thursday

A weekly Instagram post built on PlaymakerAI data, bringing the club's numbers to supporters in the club's own channels.

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