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Sport · mag 2.8

Blueprint

formerly KeepUp

Role · OperationsStatus · Active

The lead-sourcing engine for youth sports — a whole company run on a repo of SOPs and automation.

The thesis

Blueprint (formerly KeepUp) helps clients enter or sell into the youth-sports market by sourcing, qualifying, and handing off leads. It's the front end of a buy-and-build sports investor: find and research youth sports clubs — mostly elite soccer — then route qualified prospects either to paying consulting clients or into the acquisition pipeline. Three strictly separated tracks: client contracts, lead delivery, and acquisition targets. The doctrine: automate the admin, not the trust — humans keep the relationship selling, machines do everything around it.

What I do here

I'm the founding AI operations lead. I stood up the entire operating stack from scratch — accounts, domains, CRM, the lead-enrichment pipelines, the SOPs the day-to-day rep runs from, the websites, the technical implementation. I audited the parent investor's automation and CRM end to end and rewired their enrichment pipeline for Blueprint's use.

What's built

Where it stands

Live and operating in an early, mostly-manual phase. The foundation is complete, the sites are up, and the enrichment pipeline is running against the active pipeline. Heavier automation and the finance/admin stack are deliberately staged for later — ship the simple version first.

Nearby stars

The lead-sourcing arm of SYNRGY — same operator, shared pipeline structure and enrichment tooling. An operating engagement that lives in the Alpicat brain collection.