Podium Pursuit The Athlete Economy
Athletes across the disciplines of the Athlete Economy
Identity · Intelligence · Index · Interaction · Investment

The Operating System of the Athlete Economy

Podium Pursuit is the digital infrastructure that lets sponsors, federations, investors and fans discover, value and fund the continent's athletes, from grassroots to podium.

Five Infrastructure Layers That Make Athletes Identifiable, Measurable, Valued, Connected and Fundable.

Sport has never had a shared valuation language, a verified athlete registry, or a structured route for capital to reach the people who create the value. Podium Pursuit is building all three.

Five infrastructure layers, already operational: 6,000+ verified athletes across 62 nations, an intelligence engine built across three Olympic cycles, and live capital pathways. This is the system in detail.

For AthletesBecome visible, valued and fundable, from grassroots to podium.
For SponsorsFind and value the right athletes with confidence.
For FederationsTurn administration into a funded, data-generating asset.
For InvestorsAccess a new, measurable class of sporting opportunity.
For FansFollow, back and fund the athletes you believe in.
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Proof of Execution · Already Operational
6,000+
Verified Athletes
62
Nations · 54 African, 6 GCC
47
Sport Codes
525,000+
Fan Engagements in 2025
USD 285k+
Federation Affiliation Revenue
In One Minute

Sport Was Built Around Events. Not Around Athletes.

In one line: Podium Pursuit gives sport a shared way to identify, measure, value, connect and fund athletes, so the money and attention finally reach the people who create the value. Think of it the way an operating system runs the apps on your phone: Podium Pursuit runs the systems that turn a gifted athlete into a visible one, a valued one, and a funded one.

Federations Govern Competition. Broadcasters Distribute Moments. Sponsors Buy Visibility Around Those Moments.

The infrastructure of sport was never designed around the people who create its value, so athlete success stays exceptional rather than systematic.

The Athlete Economy reorganises this. Athletes stop being temporary participants who appear during competition and become persistent economic actors: Verified, Measurable, Valued, Connected and Fundable All Year Round.

The constraint has never been talent. The constraint has been systems. An Athlete Economy Must Be Architected, Not Discovered.

ProTouch architected the spine. Podium Pursuit holds it. What follows is that spine in full: the five layers, the components inside each, and the evidence they already work.

The Map · What We Are Building

Five Layers. One Co-ordinated Operating System.

Each layer performs a distinct role, and each one makes the next possible. Without Identity nothing can be measured. Without Intelligence no index can be computed. Without the Index no capital can be priced. Below, every component inside every layer.

Identity layer
01

Identity

Athletes Become Identifiable

Verified, persistent digital athlete profiles that replace scattered, event-dependent registries. Credentials, rights and career history in one place, kept current by a live results feed and anchored by a permanent Hall of Fame register. Athletes become discoverable, verifiable and eligible for participation across the whole system. Without the identity layer, no other system in the stack can function.

Intelligence layer
02

Intelligence

Athletes Become Measurable

Performance, social and contextual data, ingested and enriched into decision-grade signal. Named from the African root "ntu", meaning human, BuntuAI is the engine beneath every index. Its dataset was built athlete by athlete and competition by competition across three Olympic cycles.

Index layer
03

Index

Athletes Become Valued

Ranking, valuation, benchmarking and pricing. The Index replaces reputation and media exposure with transparent benchmarks that sponsors, institutions and investors can all use. A shared valuation language sport has never previously had, published at two levels: the athlete and the nation.

The Index Layer: four scores, one foundation. AVI, SVI, CAI and SPI.View the Top 100 Rankings
Interaction layer
04

Interaction

Athletes Become Connected to Fans.

The fan-facing surface of the Athlete Economy, the point at which the system becomes physically and digitally present to the public. Historically fans participated as spectators. The Interaction layer treats the supporter as a participant whose attention, identity and spend are economic signals in their own right.

Boma · The Digital Clubhouse

Your Front Row Seat to Every Rise

The always-on mobile application for fans, where African and Gulf sport comes alive: community hubs, live results and match centres, voting, missions and challenges, and the athletes rising to the podium.

Boma app: Welcome
Welcome
Boma app: Home
Home
Boma app: Fixtures & Results
Fixtures & Results
Boma app: Live Polls
Live Polls
Boma app: Match Centre: Live
Match Centre: Live
Boma app: Standings
Standings
Boma app: Athlete Collective
Athlete Collective
Boma app: Results Live
Results Live
Boma app: Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

United by Passion. Powered by Purpose.

Supporter Lifestyle Marketplace
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ROOTS · The Harambee

A lifestyle and commerce marketplace, rooted in African culture and identity, through which supporter spend contributes back to athlete development.

ROOTS supporters celebrating in the standsMatch Day
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ROOTS Polo detailPolo
ROOTS track jacket and joggers on the moveOn the Move
ROOTS Basketball Jersey detailBasketball Jersey
ROOTS Shorts detailShorts
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ROOTS Joggers detailJoggers
ROOTS Cap detailCap
ROOTS polo wornPolo
ROOTS Bucket Hat detailBucket Hat
ROOTS Beanie detailBeanie
ROOTS Performance Tee detailPerformance Tee
ROOTS supporters celebrating in the standsMatch Day
ROOTS Track Jacket detailTrack Jacket
ROOTS Polo detailPolo
ROOTS track jacket and joggers on the moveOn the Move
ROOTS Basketball Jersey detailBasketball Jersey
ROOTS Shorts detailShorts
ROOTS track jacket wornTrack Jacket
ROOTS Joggers detailJoggers
ROOTS Cap detailCap
ROOTS polo wornPolo
ROOTS Bucket Hat detailBucket Hat
ROOTS Beanie detailBeanie
ROOTS Performance Tee detailPerformance Tee

Rooted in Africa. Rising to the Podium.

Athletes and Talent Cross into the Workplace.
The Opportunity Gateway · Workforce Marketplace
Kivuko, The Crossing

Kivuko · The Crossing

A sport-careers marketplace and skills-building engine, connecting athletes to the work and pathways that exist beyond competition, alongside sports professionals and development pathways for the youth into sporting careers.

A coach and athlete reviewing performance data trackside
A medal-winning athlete beside a riverside career conversation
A medallist looking towards the city and the business of sport
An athlete shaking hands on a new role in a city boardroom
Athletes and professionals learning together on a sport campus
An athlete leading a strategy session with her team
An athlete presenting the Athlete Economy across Africa to a boardroom

Beyond the Podium. Into the Arena.

Investment layer
05

Investment

Athletes Become Fundable

Capital products that fund athletes, ventures, infrastructure and sporting organisations. Traditional sports funding relies on episodic sponsorship and short-term commercial partnerships. Deployment here is guided by AVI and SPI signals, replacing relationship-dependent funding with structured, intelligence-led pathways.

Fund Your Passion

The crowdfunding and payments platform routing supporter capital directly to the athletes and campaigns they follow.

View Campaigns

Athlete Impact Fund

Structured capital deployment connecting global investment directly with verified athlete development and international competition access.

Coming in 2027
Sports Organisations Become Sustainable and Better Governed.

Federation Membership and Payments Platform

Affiliation, membership and licensing infrastructure for federations, clubs and teams turning administration into a funded, data-generating layer of the ecosystem.

Data analytics, and revenue-generating opportunities through a new digital rights licence.

More than $275k in collections.

The Objective

Make athlete success systematic, not exceptional.

Why Now

Four Forces, Converging at Once.

Digital infrastructure has reorganised banking, commerce and media. Sport is next, and Africa holds the demographic engine.

01
Digital Infrastructure Revolution Sport now has the tools to become co-ordinated infrastructure.
02
Africa's Demographic Advantage By 2050, one in four people alive will live in Africa.
03
Rise of the Creator Economy Athletes have the influence, and now the infrastructure to convert it.
04
Transformation of Sports Investment The infrastructure layer has never existed as an investable asset class.
The Invitation

You Are Not Joining a Platform. You Are Entering the Athlete Economy.

If you are a federation, league, club, athlete, brand, government entity or investor ready to move from fragmented digital activity to structured ecosystem infrastructure, let's connect and shape the future.

Start a Conversation

Build the Athlete Economy With Us.

Offices

🇦🇪Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

🇿🇦Cape Town, South Africa

🇿🇦Johannesburg, South Africa

The Five Layers

Identity · Intelligence · Index

Interaction · Investment

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