For independent trainers
Get paid for the film work you already do.
The trainer program puts the same faceoff and draw-control breakdown engine college staffs use in your hands, with no team behind you. Run your own athletes, run your clinics, and take paid review work from programs that need a second set of eyes.
The loop
How the work reaches you, and how the money follows it.
Build your profile and post a rate
Photo, bio, and what you charge for one film breakdown review, anywhere inside the $10 to $50 band. Publish it and coaches find you in the Find a trainer directory inside FalconEye, with your rate, before they ever contact you.
A coach sends you a player
Programs carry a trainer balance for the season. A coach spends it to request a review on one specific athlete, and you get the request by email and in the Hub.
You watch the film and write it up
The request puts that athlete on your roster as review-only, so the film you were paid to watch opens for you. You deliver written feedback the coach and the player both see.
The money moves on its own
You never invoice anybody and you never chase a coach for payment. The program was already charged when they asked, so delivering the review is what releases your share to you.
Two plans
Pick the one that matches how you work.
Both give you the breakdown engine, the Training Hub, and clinics. The difference is whether coaches can hire you through the platform and pay you for it.
Session-only
$450 a year if you pay up front
Run your own athletes and your own clinics on the FalconEye engine.
- Training Hub: sessions, drill library, player-submitted clips
- A home screen with today's sessions and the work coaches send you
- AI film breakdowns on the athletes you train, with several clips joined into one film
- Clinics, including group film for a whole roster
- A public trainer profile with your posted rate
- 12 AI film breakdowns to start
- Not included: Paid breakdown reviews requested by coaches
- Not included: Direct messaging with coaching staffs
Pro
$900 a year if you pay up front
Everything above, plus the two things that connect you to programs.
- Everything in Session-only, plus:
- Paid breakdown reviews at the rate you post
- Payouts to your own bank account through Stripe
- Direct messaging with coaching staffs in the directory
- Messaging with your assigned athletes, when their coach turns it on
- 25 AI film breakdowns to start
A paid review costs the coach twice over: their trainer balance pays your fee, and one of their film breakdowns pays for the AI pass. That is deliberate. Two real costs, kept apart, so neither side is guessing what the other is spending.
Plan prices are before sales tax. Where your state charges it, FalconEye adds it to your plan invoice at your state's rate.
Getting paid
You never send an invoice.
The awkward part of working for yourself is chasing people for money. That part is not in this job. Here is exactly how it runs.
Who pays you, and when?
The program does, and they pay before you start. Requesting a review debits that program's trainer balance on the spot, so the money is already set aside while you watch the film. Delivering the write-up is what releases it.
How much do you get?
The rate you posted on your profile, minus FalconEye's share. Both figures are frozen onto the review the moment the coach requests it, so raising your rate next week never re-prices work you already agreed to, and lowering it never claws anything back.
How does it reach your bank?
Stripe pays you directly. FalconEye never holds or sees your bank details. Delivered reviews are swept once a day, so a review you finish tonight is queued for payout tomorrow morning, then follows Stripe's own schedule to your account.
What if the coach is unhappy?
They can flag a delivered review, which moves no money by itself. A person at FalconEye reads it. If it is refunded after you were already paid, the amount nets against your next payout rather than becoming a bill you have to settle.
What if you never deliver?
You get one nudge at three days. At fourteen the request cancels itself and the program is refunded automatically. Nothing sits in limbo, and nobody has to email anyone to unstick it.
What do you owe on it?
Your own taxes. You are an independent contractor, not an employee, so you furnish a W-9 and nothing is withheld. The plan fee is separate and is owed whether or not any review work comes in that month.
Clinics
Thirty athletes on a Saturday, one film pass.
A clinic is the one place in FalconEye where an athlete exists without a program behind them. Type the roster into a single box, number and name in either order, and run the whole session as one group breakdown instead of thirty individual ones. Individual passes are still there for an athlete paying for depth.
An athlete the model cannot identify is reported as unidentified and listed at the end. It never guesses a name. A clinic where two kids forgot their pinnies is the normal case, and a wrong name on a report a parent reads is worse than an honest gap.
Roster paste box
12 Ryan Doyle Maddie Chen 7 4 Sam Ortiz (lefty, red pinnie) Jordan Blake 9 Priya Raman (tall, no pinnie)
Anything in brackets becomes the description the model finds that athlete by. The list is parsed as you type for a live preview, then parsed again, deduped and capped on the server, which is the pass that counts.
Film breakdowns
Whoever directed the work pays for it.
Running film through the AI costs real money, so it is worth being exact about whose meter it lands on. There is no checkbox and nothing to configure. One rule decides it, and it turns on the work rather than on you.
The program pays
A coach requested a review from you, on that athlete, and it is still open. Their season allowance covers the pass, because their staff asked for the work.
You pay
Everything else. Your own clients, your own clinics, including athletes who happen to play for a program that uses FalconEye. Nobody asked for that work, so it is yours.
You start with a one-time allowance on FalconEye: 12 breakdowns on Session-only, 25 on Pro. It is granted to your account the first time you need it, so changing plan later never takes back an allowance you were partway through. After that you buy more in packs from your Earnings tab whenever you want them.
Before you apply
The things you would rather find out now.
You sign the same agreement a school signs
One Software Subscription Agreement for every FalconEye customer. Only the order form differs, and yours carries the trainer terms: the fee, your posted-rate band, how payouts and refunds work, and contractor status.
You are an independent contractor
Not an employee. You furnish a W-9, nothing is withheld, and you owe your own taxes on what you earn. FalconEye does not guarantee any volume of work or any level of earnings.
Identity verification comes before any payout
Payouts run through Stripe, which verifies you and holds the bank details. FalconEye never sees your account number. You can be approved to work before that finishes, and payouts unlock when it does.
Your clinic rosters stay yours
A clinic roster is a list of minors you collected, not a program's data. It is stored under your account and readable only by you.
No star ratings, no public leaderboard
Trainers are not ranked or rated against each other anywhere in the product. Coaches choose from your profile and your posted rate.
Undelivered work does not sit forever
A coach is charged the moment they request. If a review goes undelivered you are nudged once at three days, and at fourteen it cancels itself and the coach is refunded automatically.
The trainer terms have not yet been reviewed by an attorney. You will get the full agreement to read before you sign anything, and we would rather you raise a question about it than not.
Trainer FAQ
Questions we get asked.
- Do I need to be affiliated with a team?
- No. That is the point of the trainer program. You can run entirely on your own athletes and your own clinics, and a clinic athlete does not need to belong to any FalconEye program at all.
- Who pays for the AI film breakdowns I run?
- Whoever directed the work. A review a coach requested draws on that program's allowance. Everything else, your own clients and your own clinics, draws on your breakdowns, including for athletes who happen to play for a program that uses FalconEye.
- What happens when my starter breakdowns run out?
- The starter allowance is one-time, 12 on Session-only and 25 on Pro. After that you buy more in packs from your Earnings tab, at any point, without waiting on anyone at FalconEye.
- Do I owe the subscription in a month with no review work?
- Yes. The plan fee buys the Training Hub, your profile, clinics, and the breakdown engine, and it is owed whether or not a coach requests anything that month. Bill monthly or annually, your choice.
- Can I set my own price?
- Inside a band, yes: post any per-breakdown rate from $10 to $50. You can change it whenever you like, and a change only applies to requests made after it.
- Does FalconEye work for draw control as well as faceoff?
- Yes. The vocabulary follows the sport in-app, so a draw program reads Circle Play and My Draws where a faceoff program reads Wing Play and My Faceoffs. The engine is built for both.
- Who can come to my clinics?
- Athletes 13 and older. The Clinics tab has a printable parent waiver with your name already filled in, covering the athlete's details, consent to film, and the release, so every family signs the same page before the first session.
- How do I learn my way around?
- A guided tour walks you through the Hub the first time you sign in, and Ask FalconEye answers how-to questions about the trainer tools, pointing at the exact button to press.
Apply
Tell us how you train.
Trainer accounts are opened by hand, one at a time. Send this and we will come back to you with the agreement and an invite. Nothing is charged until you have read what you are signing.