How AI Helps Umpires, Referees, & Other Sports Officials
Assignors spend nights texting officials, tracking certifications and building pay sheets. 12² builds assignment messages, a certification tracker and pay statements around the assigning tool.
Officials Assigning & Pay Desk · From $1,500 + $249/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.
Ai for sports officials associations: the short answer.
12² builds AI for umpires, referees and sports officials that takes on the routine work: sending game assignment offers and confirmations, tracking availability, certifications and conflicts, and drafting pay statements from completed games. It runs inside the tools you already use. Assignors approve every assignment.
Sources
- General office-writing evidence, not a study of this job: in an RCT, ChatGPT cut professional writing time 40% and raised quality (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu
Research figures above describe the cited studies, not results 12² promises. Results vary. Disclosures
Where the hours go now.
Game assignment offers and confirmations
Assignors spend nights texting officials, tracking certifications and building pay sheets.
Availability, certifications and conflicts
The dates and records live in inboxes, spreadsheets and people's heads.
Drafting pay statements from completed games
Written up by hand, one at a time, after the real work is done.
What it handles, and what it never does.
What it handles
- Game assignment offers and confirmationsIt sends game assignment offers and confirmations.
- Availability, certifications and conflictsIt tracks availability, certifications and conflicts.
- Drafting pay statements from completed gamesIt drafts pay statements from completed games.
- League and school questionsIt answers league and school questions from approved answers.
- Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.
What it never does
- Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
- Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
- Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
- Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
Built and tested on your own work.
Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
- Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
- Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
- What 12² buildsAssignment messages, a certification tracker and pay statements around the assigning tool.
- How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to your assigning tool on the first call and write it into your quote.
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From $1,500 + $249/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.
- Small: Small studio (1-4 staff, one location)From $1,500 + $249/mo. The core build for 1-4 staff, one location: assignment messages, a certification tracker and pay statements around the assigning tool. Proposed estimate. Small tier; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes.
- Mid-size: Mid-size (5-19 staff)From $3,500 + $450/mo. Everything in Small studio, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. More users, locations or integrations.
- Enterprise: Enterprise / multi-location (20+ staff or several locations)From $6,500 + $650/mo, custom quote. Everything in Mid-size, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate floor; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap.
- Retainer up front Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
- You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
- Compliance and dataCertification rules come from the governing body; contractor pay and tax forms reviewed by the treasurer.
- Not professional advice12² builds software and automations. It is not a licensed professional in your field, and your team makes every professional decision. Disclosures
Straight answers.
Does it assign games?
It drafts offers; the assignor approves.
How does payment work?
Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
How long does it take?
Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.
Are these prices final?
No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.
Tell us how you handle game assignment offers and confirmations now.
A few lines is enough. If it's a fit we'll say so, and if it isn't we'll tell you why.
- You'll hear back within one business day12² reads your note and replies about your project.
- A free 20-minute callHow the work runs now, what gets missed, and what your team needs from it.
- A fixed quoteYour size, scope, date and price in writing before any work starts.
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