XCIV.ai Partners with Minnesota Kings Elite for Summer 2026 AAU Pilot

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — XCIV.ai, the AI coaching platform built for working basketball coaches, today announced an agreement with Minnesota Kings Elite to pilot the platform across the program's 2026 summer AAU schedule. The deal adds another AAU program to XCIV.ai's growing roster and marks a deliberate step into club basketball, where coaches juggle the most games on the tightest prep windows of the year.

Under the agreement, Minnesota Kings Elite will receive full Staff-tier access to XCIV.ai throughout the summer circuit — including AI-generated scouting reports, opponent breakdowns, practice plans, and in-game adjustments. The pilot is designed to compress hours of film and stat work into minutes between bracket games, where time is the scarcest resource on the floor.

AAU is where coaches do the most coaching on the least time. Kings Elite runs a serious program. We built XCIV.ai to make their staff faster on every scout, every adjustment, every halftime. The fact that they chose us for the summer says everything about where coaching tech is headed.

— Zack Odell, Founder & CEO, XCIV.ai

For a one-coach program, the whole job is scouting, practice planning, and game planning — and there's never enough weekend to get all three done. XCIV.ai is the first tool I've seen that handles all three at once. That's why we're running the pilot.

— Raymond Warren, Founder and Director, Minnesota Kings Elite

The Kings Elite pilot follows growing traction for XCIV.ai across high school programs and state coaching associations nationwide. The platform is positioned as a complement to video tools like Hudl — the AI coaching brain that turns raw footage and stat lines into ready-to-run game plans, scouting reports, and practice scripts.

Performance data and coaching feedback from the Kings Elite pilot will inform XCIV.ai's broader AAU rollout heading into the 2026–2027 season.