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AI-Powered Talent Scouting for Football Club

This is like giving West Ham’s scouting team a super-smart digital assistant that watches players, tracks their stats, and flags promising talent they might otherwise miss.

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Executive Brief

Business Problem Solved

Traditional scouting is manual, biased, and limited by how many games humans can watch; this system uses data and AI to systematically surface and score potential recruits across a much larger pool of players.

Value Drivers

Improved hit-rate in player recruitment and academy intakeFaster identification of emerging talent before competitorsBetter use of scouting budget and travel resourcesData-backed decisions that reduce expensive transfer mistakesScalable coverage of leagues and age groups that staff alone can’t track

Strategic Moat

Combination of club-specific historical performance data, proprietary scoring models tuned to West Ham’s playing style, and tight integration into existing scouting workflows creates switching costs over time.

Technical Analysis

Model Strategy

Hybrid

Data Strategy

Vector Search

Implementation Complexity

Medium (Integration logic)

Scalability Bottleneck

Data quality and consistency across leagues and sources; latency and cost of ingesting and processing large, continuous streams of match and tracking data.

Market Signal

Adoption Stage

Early Adopters

Differentiation Factor

Uses hyperscaler (AWS) infrastructure and a specialist partner (Crayon) to build a club-tailored scouting solution, rather than a generic off-the-shelf analytics dashboard.

Key Competitors