This is a single briefing document for Better Athlete's three-counsel legal team. It gives each of you the whole picture of the company, delineates individual roles, names the specific cross-counsel workflows where two or three of you will need to coordinate, and closes with a per-counsel action digest so each of you can see your docket. Companion docs — the V2.0 structure plan and the V3.0 founder-strategy brief — remain in _HANDOFF/ for deeper reference; this V1.0 is the shared canonical briefing for the team.
Audience. This document is written for three attorneys reading it in parallel:
Purpose. One shared context so no counsel is operating in the dark on the other two's workstreams. Sections 03–15 present the company; sections 16–17 present the coordination overlay.
Coordination principles.
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Engaged: 2026-07-14 as acting counsel going forward. Post-2026-07-14 consultation locked the pivot to Delaware C-Corp + SAFE + single-entity IP holding.
Scope: Delaware C-Corp formation · founder IP-assignment agreement · SAFE angel-round template + closings · Series A priced round (mid-2028) · franchise agreement + FDD state-by-state exposure · Foundation 501(c)(3) formation prep Q4-2026 · partnership instruments (Meredith Founding Athlete Partner restricted common, VueMotion API + data-rights agreement, Samir advisor + investor sequence, Allison + Frank clinical advisor agreements) · DTSA "reasonable measures" NDA template with §1833(b) whistleblower notice · general corporate.
Office (952) 697-2646 · cell (952) 200-7132 · ngallus@billionarmitage.com · linkedin.com/in/nathanjgallus/ · billionarmitage.com · firm main (952) 697-2630 · engagement co-signatory (partner): Benjamin C. Armitage (952) 697-2632
Engaged: 2026-07-13. Timeliness terms: 4+ US business days / 7+ foreign business days lead time on PTO deadlines. Work-product portability: on full payment, BA has perpetual royalty-free rights to use, reproduce, modify, and rely on all work product, including with future counsel.
Scope: Omnibus provisional patent application drafting — one broad application that can cover Dual-State Protocol (10 claims already drafted), LESRI composition + multiplier stack, Fibonacci-as-state-machine, and Master Library selection workflow. Final claim set at Nathan's discretion. Downstream patent prosecution (non-provisional conversion within 12 months, prosecution, potential foreign filings).
650.776.1133 · courtney@thorntoniplaw.com · www.thorntoniplaw.com
Scope (narrowed 2026-07-14): trademark prosecution + assignment execution · DMCA agent registration (DMCA-1074271) · Cease-and-desist letter to Everyday Athlete, LLC (unauthorized use / infringement of the EVERYDAY ATHLETE mark — immediate priority to preserve leverage before portfolio cleanup) · USPTO change-of-representation for all 5 registered marks · EVERYDAY ATHLETE renewal (Section 8+9 combined) by October 19, 2026 · Section 8/15 combined maintenance affidavits for the four 2020 registrations (Reg. Nos. 6,200,700–6,200,703) by November 17, 2026 · TM assignment execution into C-Corp post-formation under Savar's IP-assignment agreement.
tomas@betterathlete.com · tomas@everydayathlete.com · 718-501-4591
Signing posture: pre-formation, all instruments executed by "Tomas Anthony, an individual" with forward-assignment clauses to the C-Corp. Post-formation, "Better Athlete, Inc., a Delaware corporation." Sole founder; 100% common at issuance.
Legend: P = primary owner · S = support / concurrent / advises · – = not involved.
| Workstream | Savar | Gallus | Thornton | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware C-Corp incorporation + bylaws + first written consent | P | – | – | QSBS clock starts here |
| Founder common stock issuance (10M @ $0.0001) | P | – | – | §83(b) if any vesting |
| Founder IP-assignment agreement (all pre-formation IP into C-Corp) | P | S | S | Gallus + Thornton confirm scope of "prior invention" schedule |
| Omnibus provisional patent application — drafting + filing | S | P | – | Filed personally then assigned to C-Corp |
| Provisional-to-non-provisional conversion (12-month clock) | S | P | – | Foreign filings TBD by Gallus |
| Trademark assignment (5 marks: Tomas → C-Corp) | S | – | P | Savar coordinates timing with formation |
| Everyday Athlete trademark renewal (Aug 1 deadline) | – | – | P | File personally; assign to C-Corp after formation |
| Copyright batch registration (source, docs, assets) | P | S | S | Coordinated with founder IP-assignment |
| DMCA agent registration (DMCA-1074271) — maintenance | – | – | P | Existing registration; update on C-Corp formation |
| SAFE angel-round template + first closings | P | – | – | YC post-money SAFE; valuation cap TBD by Savar |
| Series A priced-round documents (mid-2028) | P | – | – | SAFEs convert here |
| Meredith Speck Founding Athlete Partner instrument | P | – | – | Restricted common with milestone vesting |
| Advisor agreements (Allison, Frank, others) | P | – | – | Standard advisor equity + confidentiality |
| DTSA "reasonable measures" NDA template | P | S | S | §1833(b) notice required |
| VueMotion API + data-rights commercial + data agreement | P | S | – | Data-flow interacts with trade-secret perimeter |
| Franchise agreement + FDD state-by-state registration | P | S | S | Two-tier confidentiality; TM sub-license to franchisees |
| Seen. Strong. Foundation 501(c)(3) formation Q4-2026 | P | – | – | Or referred nonprofit counsel |
| NY LLC dispositions (RHPL LLC · BA App LLC · EA Ops LLC) | P | – | – | Halt in-process; decide RHPL fate |
| ToS §6 revision (derived outputs, license terms) | P | S | S | Coordinated with IP-assignment scope |
Public positioning (canonical, 2026-07-14):
Better Athlete is training intelligence for youth sports. The coach sees effort. The parent sees mood. The trainer sees the body. Better Athlete composes those fragments — movement, biometrics, load, and feel — into one clinically standardized daily readiness call, so the right call is clear long before anything breaks. Over time, that record becomes the athlete's transcript.
Revenue model — internal, do not use in public materials:
Revenue stacks six connected flywheels — family subscriptions ($49–149/mo), parent-funded school and club assessment programs, facility combines and events, per-lead gym referrals, provider-network memberships, and a $75K franchise that licenses the full operating stack. BA runs no facilities; franchisees do — HQ operates as tenant #1 on the exact stack it licenses, and every operator makes the intelligence corpus smarter.
Stage. BASIS Independent school pilot confirmed 2026-05-22, going live August 2026. Meredith Speck (NWSL/NC Courage) in Founding Athlete Partner conversation. July–August is the runway before pilot data collection begins. C-Corp formation is the top-priority workstream this quarter.
Four-layer classification. Every layer assigns into the Delaware C-Corp at formation. Two counsel touch this table concurrently — Gallus on the patent row, Thornton on the trademark row, Savar on the assignment mechanic for all four.
| Layer | Contents | Instrument path | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trade secret | LESRI formula (thresholds, floor, σ-scale, exponent); 8-multiplier stack; 1,800 AU/wk anchor; contraindication substitution mapping; source code (SaaS-isolated); aggregate anonymized dataset. | DTSA "reasonable measures": NDAs with §1833(b) whistleblower notice · MFA + audit logs · branch protection · bulk-export alerting. Contributed to C-Corp via founder IP-assignment. | SAVAR P |
| Patent — omnibus provisional in drafting | Dual-State Protocol (10 claims drafted). Candidates for same omnibus filing: LESRI composition + multiplier stack · Fibonacci-as-state-machine · Master Library selection workflow. Final claim set at Nathan's discretion. | Nathan drafts + files personally as Tomas; assigns to C-Corp at incorporation via Savar's IP-assignment agreement. Post-Recentive (Fed Cir 2025) analysis: method-of-training patents remain §101-eligible; ML/math applied to a business domain likely is not. | GALLUS P · SAVAR S |
| Copyright | Source code · SharedPicture assets · documentation. | Batch register with US Copyright Office. Assigned to C-Corp at formation. | SAVAR P |
| Trademark (5 registered) | Better Athlete · Seen. Strong. · Everyday Athlete · plus two others. | Assign from Tomas to C-Corp at formation via TM assignment agreement. Everyday Athlete Aug 1 renewal — file personally, assign post-formation. DMCA agent (DMCA-1074271) already registered. | THORNTON P · SAVAR S |
ToS §6 revision (Savar-owned, coordinated with all three). Revised terms should read: user owns raw personal data; BA owns derivative outputs (LESRI scores, tiers, prescriptions); BA holds perpetual license on anonymized aggregate for methodology + research; reverse engineering + scraping prohibited.
Master Library canon (Physiopedia integration, 2026-07-12). 2,076-exercise library, tagged along 7 primary axes — body_region · movement_pattern · movement_family · training_qualities · tier_lanes · difficulty · equipment. Every draft flagged pending_clinical_review=TRUE until Allison Gibbons PhD PT + Frank Ennis MD sign off. This is the corpus the prescription engine reads from and a key trade-secret asset.
Locked with Savar 2026-07-14. Two entities replace the prior three-entity architecture.
Existing NY LLCs. Red Hook Performance Lab LLC (formed, NY, EIN 41-5345361) — disposition pending Savar review. Better Athlete App LLC + EA Operations LLC — halt in-process filings.
Multi-tenant from day one. HQ runs as tenant #1 on the exact stack every franchisee will run on.
@ba/components library. Cloudflare Pages hosting; custom domains per app.15 modules total, each is a Worker route + Supabase schema + HTML shell that can deploy independently:
Foundation modules (1, 14, 15) plus Assessment (2) and Rx (3) engines are LIVE — HQ already runs as tenant #1 on the exact stack a franchisee will run on. Remaining modules migrate to Supabase at franchise scale (Year 2+); staying in SmartSuite until scale demands.
Push (Go · #16A34A · circle) · Hold (Steady · #FACC15 · hexagon) · Shift (Adjust · #F97316 · square) · Ease (Back off · #DC2626 · triangle) · Heal (Recover · #1E293B · diamond). Shape + color double-coded for accessibility.
Composition (the daily readiness call). A proprietary model reads the crossings between four signals — Move, Load, Bio, Feel — not just the reads. Deterministic math against a curated corpus. Normalizes each signal 0–100 against the athlete's own baseline; resolves crossings into one tier with confidence + named driver.
Prescription (AUTO-RX1). Every tier + driver + phase combination selects from the 2,076-exercise Master Library tagged along 7 axes. Contraindications + dose ceilings respected.
Communication (four audiences, one truth). The same structured record renders in each stakeholder's language — athlete, coach, parent, clinician. Language-model inference; source is one addressable object per athlete per day.
Clinical safety loop. Every AI-generated protocol flagged pending_clinical_review until Allison + Frank sign off. Corpus is human-curated before it ships.
Continuous learning. Every completion, re-assessment, and clinician sign-off tightens the priors on the next athlete's read.
Revenue stacks across six connected flywheels. Each engine is a revenue line AND a signal source — every completion feeds the shared corpus. See "Cross-engine synergy" below.
| # | Engine | Pricing | Per-unit economics (Pro Forma V16.6) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Family subscriptions | $49 / $79 / $99 / $149 per month · weighted $78 blended | Tier mix: Aware 40% / Guided 30% / Coached 20% / Elite 10%. ~85% GM. DTC entry via phone-screen assessment (250/wk → 4,000/wk funnel, VueMotion-driven). |
| 2 | School + club programs | Parent-funded; institution loss-leader ($15/$25/athlete + $3K license); 25/45/60% opt-in Y1/Y2/Y3; cost-neutral to school by Y3 | ~$51K GP / 64% GM per school (100 athletes, 45% opt-in Y2, VALD shared across 3 schools). Y2 rev mix: Assessment 12.2% · Subs 54.1% · Rx 8.5% · Events 19.3% · Follow-up 2.7% · Summer 3.3%. |
| 3 | Facility combines + events | Combines 1/mo × 40 athletes × $300 net of 25% venue share · camps 4/yr × 30 × $495 · training-plan share | ~$220K/facility-yr. ~40% event COGS (matures to 25%). Volunteer labor $800/day first cycle → $450/day lead-only after. Feeds Engine 1 + 6. |
| 4 | Per-lead gym referrals | Flat fee per pre-assessed, pre-prescribed walk-in | Conversion-only revenue. Gyms pay $0 subscription; only on walk-in. Ends churn via visible progress; standardizes floor. |
| 5 | Provider-network memberships | Continuum-OS $2K / $3K / $4K per month per system · patient-paid $99/mo continuum subs · PT-clinic $1K/mo + 5 activations/mo | PT-clinic network 1/mo M13 → 2/mo Y3. 10% card-handed on continuum (CONFIRM). 10% COGS. 5-mo cohort stack. Stark-clean structure. |
| 6 | Franchise fee + rev share | $75K one-time + 20% rev share on BA-referred clients only. Facility event delivery hands off to franchisees at M31: 20% royalty, 5% COGS. | Licenses the full operating stack. BA runs no facilities. HQ = tenant #1 on the exact stack franchisees run. |
Cost of goods: per-athlete Rx generation is compute-only (near-zero marginal). Human cost is clinical review (batch, amortized) + trainer delivery (paid by franchisee). VALD lease $2,312/mo per 3 institutions.
The six engines are not parallel revenue lines. They share one addressable record architecture and one AI engine. Every completion on any engine tightens the priors on the next athlete's read across all engines. Five feedback loops close what would otherwise be a DAG (per reference_self_reinforcing_framework):
Compounding thesis: LESRI formula is the month-1 moat (trade secret). The data corpus is the month-12+ moat. Cohort norms across position × age × sex require 500+ athletes × 12 months to build. Cannot be forged, cannot be shortcut. O(n × t), not O(n) — every operator deepens the moat for every other operator.
Seen. Strong. Foundation (Q4-2026) sits underneath the six flywheels, not alongside them. Philanthropic dollars (RWJF, Knight, Doris Duke, Women's Sports Foundation, NIH/NIBIB, corporate CSR, DAFs) underwrite the 100,000 Girls campaign — which (a) drops CAC across every family + school + club engine (assessments already funded when they enter the funnel), and (b) generates consented baseline youth-female corpus data at scale — the exact demographic that becomes the moat. Foundation contracts with the C-Corp arm's-length for assessment services.
Slip milestone → slip hire. Headcount never precedes the revenue engine that unlocks it.
HSS ~14% concentration — Hospital for Special Surgery, if it signs, would represent ~14% of Y3 revenue. Diligence watch item. Diversify enterprise base as Engine 2 scales.
The six-flywheel model is grounded in and cross-refers to:
_HANDOFF/2026-07-09-BA-Pro-Forma-V16.6-Lean-Milestone-Gated.xlsx — current master pro forma (Base: EBITDA −$338K / +$14K / +$2.81M · Y3 GM ~70% · recurring mix ~70%)_HANDOFF/2026-07-09-BA-Pro-Forma-V16.6-Review.html — HTML review edition_HANDOFF/2026-07-09-BA-Franchise-OS-V1.0-Spec.md — 8-module franchise operating system spec_HANDOFF/2026-07-09-BA-Unit-Census-By-Category-V1.0.md — Y3 unit targets_HANDOFF/2026-07-09-BA-North-Star-Operating-Plan-V1.0.md — 4 invariants + KPI tree + M0–M60_HANDOFF/2026-07-09-BA-Cadence-Engine-Playbook-V1.0.md — 4 closes/rep/qtr close-rate machine_HANDOFF/2026-07-09-BA-Investor-Lens-Founder-Liquidity-V1.0.md — $11M net via QSBS §1202_HANDOFF/2026-07-01-Self-Reinforcing-Framework-V0.html — 5 feedback loops · schema additionsDeeper competitor + strategic-partner analysis in _HANDOFF/2026-07-14-BA-Strategic-Landscape-V1.0.html.
NWSL midfielder, NC Courage. 10 seasons, 3 championships. Yale alum. ACL recovery story. Equity ceiling 1.0–2.5% staged vesting tied to external milestones. Not operating cofounder. SAVAR Instrument: restricted C-Corp common with milestone-cliff vesting; §83(b) election on athlete's side.
Co-CEO Esusu Financial ($1.2B unicorn). Sequence: Foundation advisor seat first, Bay/Gotham warm intros T+30–60d, LAFC-style playbook T+90+, Founding Investor conversation T+180d (SAFE per V2.0 pivot). SAVAR Advisor agreement first; SAFE later.
Smartphone-based AI movement intelligence (Ryan Talbot CEO, Austin TX). Stage 1 = export/API only. Named pilot "Seen. Strong. × VueMotion Youth Female Movement Intelligence Pilot." Data rights: VueMotion aggregated de-identified benchmark rights for youth female sport; BA owns relationship + program layer + applied risk/education workflow. SAVAR P · GALLUS S (data-flow touches trade-secret perimeter).
Signed off on the readiness model 2026-06-24. Clinical review for every Master Library draft. Candidates for peer-reviewable case series by Y2. SAVAR Advisor/consulting agreements needed.
Confirmed 2026-05-22. Live August 2026. First real-world data source for the corpus. SAVAR Pilot MSA / data-use agreement; DPA if applicable to student data.
Not yet drafted. Structure: $75K one-time + 20% rev share on BA-referred only. Two-tier confidentiality (during-term + post-term perpetual for trade secrets). No source/multiplier/cross-tenant access to franchisees. SAVAR P · THORNTON S (TM sub-license terms) · GALLUS S (patent-license scope in franchise).
The market has established players in each of the four input categories but no one integrates all four into a single daily call + prescription + communication + franchise-scalable stack. That gap is BA's category.
| Player | What they do | Where BA wins |
|---|---|---|
| Hudl (Signal · WIMU · Titan · ADI · Statsbomb · Volleymetrics · Sportscode) | Elite-team performance data + video review + wearable performance tracking. 13+ products via acquisition — WIMU + Titan for GPS, Signal for cloud-based athlete monitoring, ADI for movement analysis. | Siloed products, elite-team price point, no prescription engine, no family/parent audience, no franchise. BA integrates all four inputs in one daily call at youth-athlete price points. |
| Catapult (Vector S7 · ClearSky · ThunderVR) | Nasdaq-listed. Elite wearable athlete tracking hardware + analytics. Pro teams globally — NFL, NBA, NHL, EPL, La Liga, NCAA D1. | Elite/pro pricing, no youth channel. Natural upstream layer partner at the college/pro end of BA's continuum — pipeline handoff opportunity rather than head-to-head competition. |
| VALD (ForceDecks · DynaMo · SmartSpeed · NordBord · HumanTrak) | Gold-standard force-plate + strength + isometric testing. Elite/clinical assessment hardware. | Assessment-only. No protocol, no communication, no cross-input integration. BA layers on top — VALD becomes an input source, not a competitor. Quote EDATBA26 $2,312/mo Y1 pilot units. |
| VueMotion | Smartphone-based AI movement intelligence. Australian-founded, US-expanding (Ryan Talbot CEO). | Partner track, not competitor. See §09 — Stage 1 API export in play. Named pilot to 100K athletes by 2027 WWC. |
| Sway Medical (Sway Balance) | Concussion + balance assessment via smartphone. Clinical-focused. | Single-input. Complementary — BA's concussion module (SCAT5 canon already shipped) can route out to Sway for specialized follow-up. |
| Bound | School athletics ops — ticketing, registration, scheduling, facilities. "20 solutions, 1 platform." | Ops/logistics, not readiness. Bound is the plumbing; BA is the intelligence above it. Complementary channel partner at ADs — different sale, layered offering more valuable than either alone. |
| Movella / Xsens | Motion capture hardware for biomechanics research. | Research-grade, not deployment-grade. Too expensive per unit. Optional input source for peer-reviewable case series (Allison + Frank Ennis + Kirk Campbell collaborations). |
| Whoop · Oura · Garmin | Bio-only wearables — HRV, sleep, resting HR. Consumer subscription. | Single-input. BA consumes Bio-signal via HealthKit (3,970 Apple Watch samples already pulled). Input source, not competitor. |
| Sparta Science · Kitman Labs | Enterprise team performance / injury-risk analytics. Pro clubs + colleges + national teams. | Enterprise-only pricing, no youth/family channel, no franchise model. BA's youth-first + parent-facing UX + $49–149/mo consumer tier does not exist in this category. |
Positioning summary: BA is the only player integrating four-signal readiness + AI prescription + stakeholder communication + longitudinal transcript + franchise-scalable operating stack, targeting youth (12–18) + families as the primary buyer. No direct competitor spans all five surfaces. Deeper landscape in _HANDOFF/2026-07-14-BA-Strategic-Landscape-V1.0.html.
10 schools · 49 clubs · 4 facilities · 4 systems · 36 PT clinics · 4,438 family subs · 4,000 screens/wk · 20 VALD sets · ~530 event-days/yr.
~70 clubs · 6–7 systems · 85 PT clinics · 10–12 territories · 9,000 subs · Revenue $20–35M · EBITDA 25–30% · Recurring mix >60%. Growth/PE event at 4–5× revenue → $100–160M EV.
Raise $1.5M @ $6M pre-equivalent via SAFE tranches through seed close · Y2 breakeven · Y3 EBITDA +$2.81M (29%) · Y3 GM ~70% · recurring mix ~70% · Y2–Y3 milestone-gated lean hiring.
| Advisor | Role | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Savar, Savar Law Firm PLLC | Acting counsel (see §01) | Engaged 2026-07-14 |
| Nathan J. Gallus, Billion & Armitage | Patent counsel (see §01) | Engaged 2026-07-13 |
| Courtney Thornton | TM + DMCA (see §01) | Active; Aug 1 renewal |
| Allison Gibbons, PhD, PT | Clinical Tier 1 signoff · Master Library pending-review queue | Confirmed 2026-06-24 |
| Frank Ennis, MD | Sports medicine · clinical Tier 1 signoff · peer-review co-author path Y2 · advisor side-letter drafted 2026-06-13 | In conversation → signing |
| Kirk Campbell, MD | Added to Clinical Advisory 2026-07-14 · specialty + affiliation TBC · advisor side-letter to be drafted by Savar | Added 2026-07-14 |
| Meredith Speck | Founding Athlete Partner candidate (NWSL, NC Courage) | Call one scheduled |
| Samir Goel | Foundation advisor → investor track (co-CEO Esusu) | Sequencing locked |
| Raphael team (4-role advisors) | Product / growth / finance / ops sounding board | Active |
Target: $11M free-and-clear net to the founder at a Y4–Y5 growth/PE event ($100–160M EV; revenue $20–35M; 25–30% EBITDA; 4–5× revenue multiple). Preserves ~45–50% founder equity + board/exec-chair role to retirement.
| Stage | Trigger | Founder % | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3-2026 · C-Corp formation | Stock issuance | 100% | QSBS §1202 clock starts. SAVAR |
| Angel round on SAFE | ~$100K–$1.5M @ ~$6M cap | 100% common; SAFE converts at Series A | Pre-conversion; no equity dilution yet. SAVAR |
| Mid-2028 · Series A | $4–6M @ $20–30M pre + optional $500K–1M secondary | ~55–58% | SAFE converts. Later founder tranches also QSBS-eligible if 5-yr held. SAVAR |
| Y4–Y5 · growth/PE event | $100–160M EV · founder secondary 8–10% | ~45–50% | $12–14M gross ≈ $11M+ net. §1202 5-yr clock cleared Q3-2031. |
Five workflows where two or three of you need to coordinate explicitly. Handoffs, not sequential silos.
Counsel: GALLUS P · SAVAR S
Timing: ideally provisional filed BEFORE C-Corp incorporation to keep filing simple for Tomas as individual, then assigned in via the same instrument that captures all pre-formation IP. If provisional slips past incorporation, Nathan files with the C-Corp as applicant directly and skips the assignment step for this asset (but IP-assignment still covers trade secrets + copyright + marks).
Counsel: THORNTON P · SAVAR S
Timing: Everyday Athlete Aug 1 renewal is the pacing item; C-Corp formation should ideally be before Aug 1 so the renewal can be filed in the C-Corp's name directly. If formation slips past Aug 1, file renewal personally and assign right after.
Counsel: SAVAR P · THORNTON S · GALLUS S
Timing: not blocking angel round; sequence Week 6–10 of formation.
Counsel: SAVAR P · GALLUS S · THORNTON S
Counsel: SAVAR P · GALLUS S