A longitudinal dataset that has never existed – designed to reveal why children disengage from sport, before they leave.
Pilot results expected Q2 2026 · First NGB cohorts enrolling mid-2026
Facilities are funded.
Participation is funded.
Readiness has never been.
R1 measures three dimensions – Mind, Body, and Energy – through a daily check-in that takes minutes.
The dips are natural. The difference is whether anyone can see them.
Behind every data point in this study is a child whose readiness has never been measured.
Not because the technology didn’t exist.
Because no system existed that integrates Mind, Body, and Energy into a readiness signal.
Movement competency, strength, coordination and control assessed through Asensei computer vision – validated against Dr. Kritz’s expertise in movement science.
Every day, athletes complete a brief check-in across Mind and Energy. Age-appropriate, fast, and validated. The platform generates a same-day readiness score and adapts that day’s program to match. Athletes see what they need to do. Parents see what their child needs. Coaches see readiness without the backstory.
Pilot validation confirmed. National enrollment begins mid-2026.
The pilot validates the accuracy. NGB enrollment opens mid-2026. Between those two points is a catalytic window – when philanthropic capital determines whether the study launches at scale or stalls at proof-of-concept.
This is not an open-ended ask. The study has a defined size (100,000 athletes), a defined timeline (two years), and a defined cost ($50 per child, covering two years of R1). When enrollment closes, the dataset is built with whichever funders stepped in.
2 doctorates. A former Olympic Team Member. A Stanford advisor. Each pillar of readiness is owned by the person who built the science behind it.
The youth sport ecosystem has been documenting this crisis for years. R1 is the first tool built to address it.
The definitive voice in youth sport participation data. Their State of Play reports have tracked the crisis R1 is built to address – rising costs, falling participation, and the systemic failure to support the whole athlete.
R1's study is designed to complement their work: where Project Play documents the problem at the population level, R1 generates the individual-level readiness data that has never existed.
R1’s research draws on and complements the Aspen Institute’s body of work.Girls’ participation is at record highs – but no system measures whether they’re ready to sustain it. R1 will generate the first gender-disaggregated readiness dataset at national scale.
Foundations with gender-equity mandates have a direct pathway: fund the data that makes girls’ readiness visible for the first time.
This is not a product investment. It's a philanthropic gift that puts 100,000 children into the first national readiness study.
Fund 100 children.
Fund 10,000.
Fund the entire study.
A small number of founding funders will be named on the first national readiness dataset – the philanthropic equivalent of funding the first longitudinal study of its kind.
The data has never existed. After this study, it will.
Your gift is the reason.