Coaching basketball at the high school level is a second job. Most coaches know this going in. What they don't expect is how much of that second job has nothing to do with basketball.
It's 11 PM on a Tuesday. Your team plays Thursday. You've just finished practice, finished dinner, and now you're sitting at a laptop watching film, writing a scouting report nobody will read closely enough, and trying to build a practice plan that actually prepares your kids — not just fills 90 minutes.
You've got Hudl. You can pull clips. You can tag plays. But Hudl won't tell you what to do about it.
That's the gap we built XCIV.ai to fill.
The sports technology industry has invested heavily in video. Hudl, Synergy, FastModel — these are real tools that solve real problems. We're not here to argue otherwise.
But video is an input, not an answer.
When you watch film of an opponent running a relentless dribble-drive offense, Hudl shows you the clips. It doesn't tell you how to defend it. It doesn't build your shell drill for Thursday. It doesn't write the scout for your assistants or generate the questions to ask your players in film session.
That thinking still lands on you — at 11 PM, every time.
High school coaches, AAU directors, and middle school staff carry this load with almost no support. There's no director of player development. No analytics department. No full-time video coordinator. Just you, maybe an assistant or two, and whatever time you can carve out between your actual day job and your family.
We built XCIV.ai for those coaches.
XCIV.ai is an AI-powered basketball coaching platform. Think of it as a coaching brain — one that sits behind your entire program and helps you work faster, think sharper, and show up to practice more prepared.
Concretely, that means:
Practice planning. Describe what you're trying to fix and XCIV.ai builds a structured practice plan — drills, timing, teaching points, everything. It doesn't give you a generic template. It gives you a plan built around your specific situation.
Scouting and opponent prep. Feed in what you know about your next opponent and get a usable scout: tendencies, defensive sets to prepare for, transition habits, ATO plays. The kind of breakdown that used to take hours.
Film session prep. Know what clips to pull before you sit down. Know what questions to ask. Walk into your film room with a plan, not just footage.
In-season program management. Track what you've worked on, what needs more reps, and what your team's development arc looks like over the course of a season.
This is not a chatbot. It's not a generic AI wrapper. It's a platform designed specifically for basketball coaches — built around the real language, the real situations, and the real constraints of this job.
I've spent time around coaches who are some of the most underpaid, overworked, and underserved professionals in American education. They love the game. They love their kids. And the tools available to them have not kept up with the demands placed on them.
The big platforms serve big programs — D1 programs, NBA front offices, the clients who can pay $20,000 a year for enterprise licenses. That's not most coaches. Most coaches are working with a $500 technology budget and a Google Drive full of templates they made themselves six years ago.
XCIV.ai starts free. Our paid tiers start at $19 a month. We built the pricing that way on purpose — because a tool that only elite programs can afford isn't solving the right problem.
The tagline is 94 Feet. Every inch, covered. That's not a marketing line. It's a commitment. The full court. Every coach. Every program size. Every budget.
We're focused on:
We're initially serving coaches in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Oklahoma — states where high school basketball is serious, budgets are tight, and the coaching grind is real. We'll grow from there.
We're not Hudl. We're not here to replace your video platform.
We're the coaching intelligence layer that sits on top of it. Use Hudl for your clips. Use XCIV.ai to figure out what to do with them.
We're not another generic AI tool wrapped around a chatbot. We're basketball-specific, built for the specific decisions, language, and workflows that coaches actually deal with.
And we're not built for the elite. We're built for the coach who drives to a JV game on a Wednesday night, coaches varsity on Friday, and spends Saturday morning in front of a laptop trying to make his program better.
XCIV.ai is available now. The free tier is free — no credit card, no trial period, no gimmick.
If you're a basketball coach who's tired of doing everything alone, we built this for you.
XCIV.ai is an AI-powered basketball coaching platform serving high school, middle school, and AAU coaches. Pricing starts free. Paid plans from $19/month.
94 Feet. Every inch, covered.
XCIV.ai gives every coach a scouting room, a practice planner, and a game plan engine.
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