Her dad's been at the kitchen table since the game ended, scrubbing through three hours of sideline footage. Mia scored twice. Best game of her junior year. A D1 assistant coach DMed asking for film and now he's hunting for the goals. The angles are wrong. One clip cuts off before the celebration. The other he can't find because someone walked in front of the camera. Coach wants a reel by Thursday. The talent was on the field. The tape to prove it doesn't exist yet. Scout Reel turns raw footage into recruiting-ready highlights. Upload the full game. The system finds the player, tracks their movement, identifies the moments that matter: goals, assists, saves, defensive recoveries.

Computer vision got good enough to do what editors charge $800 for. Clean reel, stabilized footage, slow-mo on the big plays. Coaches watch 30 seconds before deciding whether to keep going. This gives them a reason to stay. Build a mobile app that ingests full-game footage and uses computer vision to track individual players. Train on soccer first where ball movement and scoring events are easiest to detect. Output is a formatted reel with stabilized clips, player name, position, and contact info.

Partner with three club teams to test accuracy on real footage. Learn which moments coaches care about. Iterate until parents trust it enough to send without watching first. 500,000 families chasing scholarships spend $500-2,000 on services that cut highlight reels by hand. Scout Reel charges $29 per reel or $149/season for unlimited uploads. First customers are in club soccer Facebook groups comparing editing quotes while their kid's junior year window closes. Start with soccer.

Scale into every sport where parents film from the sideline and coaches recruit from their inbox. The tape gets them seen. Word spreads fast on the sideline. When one kid lands a roster spot, every parent wants to know who cut the film.