ecosport: connecting Australian grassroots sport without pretending it's finished

The problem: grassroots sport runs on word of mouth

Above the professional leagues, most of Australian sport — local clubs, junior athletes, community sponsors — coordinates through Facebook groups, group texts and whoever happens to know whoever. There’s no shared layer connecting a club that needs a sponsor to a sponsor that wants exactly that kind of community reach.

ecosport (Pitch green #00C853 + orange, independent brand — the name is always written lowercase, even at the start of a sentence, matching Australian sport-brand convention) is BIXSO’s platform for that connection, ordered around the sports Australians actually follow in sequence: AFL, NRL, Cricket, Soccer.

What it’s meant to do

A single supervising domain AI (Sport AI) runs two functions: an event connector that brings athletes, coaches, sponsors and merchants together around the right events, and a revenue watcher that flags daily revenue spikes and drops so clubs and sponsors can act on them fast rather than finding out at end-of-season.

Where it stands — honestly

ecosport is status: DEV, not live. The frontend (Vite + React) and backend (Express, dual Firestore/PostgreSQL) are built; the mobile app is in an early stage and not yet fully wired to the production backend. We’re publishing this now — before launch — because the model is worth describing on its own, and because BIXSO’s discipline is to say exactly where a product stands rather than round up.

Why this shape

A community-sport platform doesn’t need a chatbot; it needs a system that notices when a sponsor relationship or a club’s revenue is trending the wrong way, early enough to do something about it. That’s the one job ecosport’s domain AI is built to do first, before anything more elaborate.

Book a consult if you’re weighing what “AI for community sport” should actually mean before you build it.