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Our Story
The journey towards building this cutting edge automated video analytics software for rugby began in 2020. RugbySmarts co-founder and CTO William Johnstone was working with Connacht Rugby and Corinthians RFC and discovered that the current process for video analysis is manual, extremely time consuming and very laborious for rugby coaches.
After spending countless hours coding, analysing and editing matches to help improve the performance of the teams he worked with, William was inspired to apply his knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) and video manipulation to develop a better way. Once the concept was proved took a journey through New Frontiers to create an organisation that transforms and revolutionises the video analytics landscape.
RugbySmarts is a game changer - by using the power of computer vision and artificial intelligence we detect all the key game-level events so rugby coaches can focus on analysis and coaching.
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Our Philosophy
"By Coaches for Coaches" as rugby coaches ourselves we want to put the best tools in the hands of coaches all over the world, saving countless hours in admin so they can focus on what they do best... coaching their teams!
Awards
ITAG Tech Startup of the Year 2022
SportX Accelerator Most Investable Company
National Startup Awards - Regional Winner
Very user friendly, sharing information with players quick and easy, drawing up clips and player information packs has now become a breeze to achieve.
Dermot Tierney, Tullamore Senior Women Head Coach
We have been delighted with RugbySmarts as a product and it has proven a very useful analytical tool for our Girls Connacht Under 18 Coaching Team.
Joe Gorham, Head of Rugby Development, Connacht Rugby
The fact you can code, analyse in different ways and then communicate on multiple platforms makes this the most all-encompassing and comprehensive analysis system I have used over the last 4 years coaching with the Connacht U18s.
Fraser Gow, Connacht U18’s Coach