OFD · Atlas · Dispatch 01

The data layer for world sport, below the top tier.

Crowdsourced, comparative, federation-interoperable infrastructure for the lower-tier and semi-professional layer of world sport. Built from the ground up.

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Sources · FIFA Big Count, FIFA Connect, national federation registriesThe Gap · 01

The market is not the top tier. It’s everything beneath it.

60,000+
Semi-pro football clubs globally
with no consistent data layer
38M
Registered footballers worldwide
fewer than 1% have comparable data
8 tiers
In major football pyramids
coverage stops at tier 2
47%
Of pro contracts signed globally
come from outside the top tier
TOLeague operators · federation strategy heads · tournament directors
Services · 02

What we’d build with you.

Four services for leagues and federations ready to make their tier of the game legible. Founding-partner terms while LOCALSS is in pre-launch: the first leagues we work with help define the data model, the integration shape, and the product they want next.

01

Capture your league

Our crowdsourced contributor network and lightweight extraction tools, applied to every match in your competition. Browser-based tagging with intuitive hotkeys, system settings, and AI-powered assistance.

You getPer-match event data, every fixture, to the LOCALSS ontology
02

Standardize your data

Granular player-level metrics built to the same ontology we apply across every league we cover. A 6th-tier midfielder becomes measurable against a 3rd-division equivalent in another country. Player development pathways become legible to scouts and federations.

You getxG, touchmaps, defensive actions, comparative percentiles
03

Connect to what you already run

Federation IDs as foreign keys. Plug the data layer into your club-ops platform, broadcaster pipelines, or scouting systems. Or use our API directly. Either way, your data layer becomes the source of truth across whatever stack you already operate.

You getREST API, federation-ID interop (FIFA Connect, MySAFA, national)
04

Give it a home online

Websites, managed hosting, and digital-space consultation, built to the same standard as the data. We design and run the place your club or league lives online, so the effort on the pitch and the data behind it finally have somewhere worthy to sit.

You getCustom club and league sites, managed hosting, a home for your data

For the first leagues we work with: founding-partner terms.

Pricing for the first cohort reflects the partnership. Founding partners shape the engagement, the ontology, and the integration roadmap. The data layer becomes legible on terms you helped write.

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LOCALSS

A platform dedicated to servicing the communities of footballers across the globe with limited access to data and footage. Designed to scale into the expansive comparative layer for football data long needed, long ignored.

i.
A real need, finally served.
Sport gets more data-driven every cycle. Below the top tier, that data still does not exist or does not reach the players and teams who need it. OFD makes sure it lands, reliably and in the formats clubs and athletes actually use.
ii.
The stands, given a way in.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the stands already know their local game better than anyone in front of a Bloomberg terminal. We give them lightweight tools, reward the contribution, and let passion convert into participation, and for many, a way into the industry.
iii.
A network that compounds.
Crowdsourced capture and OFD tooling combine into ecosystems that spread without paid acquisition. Each region strengthens the next. End state: a 6th-tier English club, a 3rd-division Croatian side, and a Jamaican Premier League team measured on the same row.
Verticals roadmap · one platform, four sports2026 → 2028
LOCALSS
Football
2026
LIVE
[TBD]
Hockey
Q1 2027
IN BUILD
[TBD]
Basketball
Q3 2027
PLANNED
[TBD]
School Sports
2028
PLANNED
Read the LOCALSS brief
Build status2026.W26 · OFD/01
The Log · 03

Already operating, kept honest.

OFD runs today. The tools are built, the contributor network is live, and federation conversations are underway. LOCALSS’s public layer is the piece still pre-launch. Real numbers, even when they’re small; targets named and sources cited, held to the same standard as the rest of the data layer.

01
SHIPPED
Lightweight tools built
3
LOCALSS platform · in-browser tagging · phone-to-web stream pipeline
02
IN BUILD
Federation conversations
4 active
Across Turkey, US, West Africa, Canada
03
IN BUILD
Early contributors onboarded
50+
Players, scouts, club staff. Growing daily across the network.
04
IN BUILD
LOCALSS public layer
2026 Q3
Web + ingest + comparative-metrics API
Last update · 2026.06.23 · This page is the public source of truth.
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