Introduction

Institutions and camp operators want to grow revenue without paperwork and compliance risk.

The Good Game® provides a ticketing and clearance system that unlocks every camp, clinic, and event into a risk-free revenue stream.

There are millions of youth events across every sport and activity, and no unified way to participate:

CampsClinicsLessonsTryoutsShowcasesFundraisersMembershipsDues+ dozens more
Need a Ticket to Join
The Good Game® is the orchestration, compliance, and ticketing system for off the field, in-person experiences.
Our missionMake participation instant by eliminating registrations and sign-ups forever.
A  ·  The problem

Off the field events require a lot of paperwork to Join the Game™.

Today, registration and compliance are scattered, unsafe, repetitive, and stuck on paper.

RegistrationRegistration
RegistrationSign-ups
PhysicalPhysical
PhysicalHealth clearance
ApplicationApplication
ApplicationHiring
Background checkBackground check
Background checkVetting
CertificationCertification
CertificationCredentials
ReportingReporting
ReportingNCAA and governing bodies
Tax and 1099sTax and 1099s
Tax and 1099sIRS and state filings

Camps, clinics, and lessons are booked over text, unsecured forms, and disconnected apps that do not talk to each other. People register over and over, operators sift and manage it all by hand, and private data sits out in the open.

The pain hits three groups at once:

For buyers

Discovery, trust, and paperwork

  • Found by text and word of mouth
  • Hard to trust the coach
  • Booking is a back-and-forth
  • Forms, every single time
For organizers

Orchestration and compliance

  • Marketing and sales by hand
  • Staffing and attendance, manual
  • Scattered comms and data
  • Tax and reporting, manual
For institutions

Missing fan data and invisible risk

  • Coaches go it alone
  • Liability lands on the institution anyway
  • Governing-body rules to meet
  • No data, no visibility

Every event has four kinds of people, and today each one is its own pile of paperwork:

Sports fans cheering
Fan
Attendtickets & membershipspayments & engagement
Kids playing youth sports
Participant
Playcamps, clinics & lessonseligibility & safety
Coach giving a private lesson
Worker
Earncoaches, trainers & officialsbackground & credentials
Supporters and family
Donor
Givesponsors & boosterscompliance & tax
The gap
The whole industry is built for the business, not the person. Camp and event tools serve teams, tournaments, facilities, and large group events, the org’s scheduling, checkout, and reporting. No one builds for the individual first, the one person who signs up again and again with nothing that carries over.
B  ·  New Revenue

Turn every event into revenue.

Sell camps, clinics, and lessons like tickets, and get paid without the busywork.

Grow revenue

Every event is a product

  • List, price, and put it on sale
  • One place to book and get paid
No paperwork

The ticket does the work

  • Waivers and clearance built in
  • Clear once, carry it forward
No risk

Cleared before kickoff

  • Checks, tax, and reporting handled
  • Liability off the institution
NIL & sponsorship
Institution NIL
Pay players, transparently

Deploy capital to athletes for camp and clinic work, with every payment cleared, documented, and reportable.

Brand sponsorship
Brands sponsor kids to attend

Sponsors fund kids at community events. Goodwill becomes revenue.

C  ·  The solution

One AI-native platform for every individual off the field.

We run the whole in-person event and take its hardest parts off everyone’s plate:

Off everyone’s plate
Clearance (NIL)ComplianceCommsMarketingRostersSalesSupportTicketingInsuranceReporting
So people can just
AttendPlayEarnGive
Fill it out onceEvery eventEvery roleEvery orgPrivate & secure

Two sides, one profile, both at one-click speed:

Buy side
Fans, Participants & Donors

Lightning-fast, reusable checkouts to attend, take part, and give, with no forms to fill out ever again.We call it Compliant Ticketing™, powered by an AI rules engine.

Sell side
Institutions, Operators & Workers

Institutions and operators create, market, sell, and staff their events. Workers sell their expertise and services, or get hired.Selling, staffing, and compliance, automated end to end.

One profile
MON
Fan
Buys a ticket
Buy
WED
Participant
Joins a clinic
Buy
SAT
Worker
Gets paid to coach
Sell
SUN
Donor
Gives to the team
Buy

Same person, same profile. One day a fan, the next a worker or donor, with money flowing both ways, fully compliant and paperless. Every interaction rolls up into one clean, verified record.

One platform, three surfaces that capture every in-person experience:

app.thegoodgame.com/events
Events

A registration, staffing, and operations platform: register and clear athletes, sell tickets, staff events on demand, and run check-in and operations.

Take rate + software license
nildeals.thegoodgame.com
Marketplace

A worker and on-demand booking platform: clear and book trainers, coaches, and officials, list services, close NIL deals, and take instant bookings.

Take rate on every booking
app.thegoodgame.com/fanclub
Fan clubs

A donor compliance and fan engagement platform: sell memberships and tickets, collect compliant dues and giving, and engage and reward fans.

Take rate on dues and sales
Products in action
As simple as one button

Drop one-click checkout into any registration.

A one-click Sign In button drops right into a partner’s own checkout. Wherever the button is accepted, a person is verified and cleared instantly, no forms to redo.

tap this
Sign In With Clear2Join inside a ProCamps registration
Live partnerships

Here are some of the partners already live on the platform:

Rock Chalk Fan Club
Fan club: memberships & access
August
↕ Scroll inside to exploreOpen live ↗
KU Camps & Clinics
Camps: the full KU program
Live
↕ Scroll inside to exploreOpen live ↗
ProCamps
Camps, staffing & events
Live
↕ Scroll inside to exploreOpen live ↗
The wins

Everything it unlocks, at a glance.

One system, six wins for every institution and camp operator.

Unlock new revenue

Every event becomes a sellable ticket.

Mitigate risk

Clearance, compliance, and built-in insurance on every booking.

Improve safety

Everyone vetted and cleared before they play, earn, or give.

Better data

Full visibility into people, operations, and reporting.

Happy fans

One tap to attend, play, and give. No forms, ever.

More engagement

Stronger community and repeat participation over time.

D  ·  How we're different

Centralize every event. Own the data.

Today, each coach runs camps, clinics, and lessons on their own tools, so registrations, clearances, and payments never make it back to the institution, and families get a different experience every time. The Good Game® pulls all of it into one institution-owned system with one fan passport, so you finally see the data and every family gets one seamless experience.

CapabilityThe Good GameTeamworksRyzer
Register camps, clinics & lessons
One passport, cleared once, carried to every event
Public ticketing, memberships & fan engagement
Insurance built into every booking
Staffing, IRS & 1099s handled for workers
Compliance & data reported to the institution
Every coach's events centralized under the institution

Teamworks runs the inside of your department. Ryzer registers one camp at a time. The Good Game® centralizes every off-field event and the fan experience around it, and connects to the systems you already use.

Plus the depth that fills and runs every event:

Automated job dispatchOn-demand staffing, with IRS and 1099s handled.
Robust reportingReal-time visibility across every event.
WaitlistsAuto-fill sold-out camps and clinics.
Flexible paymentsPayment plans and split payments so more families say yes.
Add-on salesGear, meals, and upgrades at checkout.
Private lessonsBook one-on-one sessions, not just camps.
Social invitesFans invite friends, so events fill themselves.
Seamless fan engagementOne profile, first clinic to front row.
E  ·  Mitigate risk

Less risk. Less cost. More upside.

This is the part no one else does. Risk, compliance, and cost shift off coaches and the institution, and onto the platform, before anything goes wrong.

AI NCAA rules engineOur compliance engine flags issues and stops violations before they happen, so risk is prevented, not just reported after the fact.
Insurance, built in

Every Compliant Ticket™ is insured, so coaches save money and never buy a policy.

  • Covers the person and the booking
  • No separate premium for the coach

For institutions

Visibility, reporting, reach
  • Visibility into data and operations
  • Automated NCAA reporting
  • Marketing power drives ticket sales

For coaches

Coach. We handle the rest.
  • Do what they do best
  • On-demand staffing, IRS & 1099s
  • Insured and saving money
F  ·  Made for families and fans

More than a Fan ID. A passport for the whole game.

Clear2Join™ is more than a fan ID. It is a passport that houses your clearances for everything you want to do in the game, whether you attend, play, earn, or give. Set it up once and it travels with you, and because it connects to anything, every camp, clinic, ticket, and checkout becomes one seamless experience.

Already have a Fan ID?Clear2Join™ integrates with your current Fan ID systems, so clearances layer right on top, with no rip-and-replace.
Creating a Clear2Join passport
1. Set up once, on sign-up
Clearances bundled on the passport
2. Clearances travel with you
Passport home, everything in one place
3. Ready for the next one

From the first clinic to the front row, one profile follows the person, not the paperwork.

G  ·  Our Experienced Team

The team turning the thesis into a category.

Backed by leaders from Google, Uber, Turner Sports, and the NFL.

Zarif Haque
Zarif Haque
Founder & CEO

A Kansas dad of three, Zarif lived the off-field paperwork pain firsthand, season after season, and started The Good Game to fix it. He had solved a strikingly similar problem in vehicle delivery before: he founded Draiver and scaled it internationally, delivering investors a 30x+ return when it sold to Kavak, a SoftBank- and Andreessen Horowitz-backed company.

Leadership team
Nicole Burke
Nicole Burke
Chief Operating Officer
Joe Davis
Joe Davis
Chief Revenue Officer
John Hadley
John Hadley
Chief Financial Officer
Juan Ignacio Paz
Juan Ignacio Paz
Chief Technology Officer
Ryan AufDerHeide
Ryan AufDerHeide
Chief Product Officer
Angie Cretors
Angie Cretors
Compliance Strategy and Partnerships
Advisors
Matt Hong
Matt Hong
Turner Sports · Versant (NBC Sports spin-off)
Brian McClendon
Brian McClendon
Creator of Google Maps · Niantic · Uber
Tyler Epp
Tyler Epp
Chiefs · Dolphins · F1 Miami · Cadillac Racing
Charlie Tetrick
Charlie Tetrick
Walz Tetrick Advertising
Tim Roach
Tim Roach
US Navy SEAL Team One · Oak Street Trading · Lendr
H  ·  Why now

Congress, families, and safety are all in the spotlight right now.

Busy youth sports familyFamilies are stretched

Spending up 46% since 2019, buried in forms, and tired of it.

Reviewing legislation and complianceCongress is acting

The SCORE Act, the Protect College Sports Act of 2026, and the STRONG Kids Act.

Official on the fieldSafety rules keep growing

More checks and compliance required before anyone can play, earn, or give.

Attend, play, earn, or give.
No forms, ever again.
Join the Game™