For athletes · Works inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
"Why do you have an agent?
Just use Leave."
Create your account, connect Leave to the AI you already use, and say "Hey Leave." It gets to know the rest, on and off the field, over your whole career. No forms. No cut.
Pre-seed · Launching October 1, 2026leaveyouragent.com
01 — The problem
Every athlete pays for an agent. Most never get one.
10–20%
of every NIL, endorsement and appearance deal goes to an agent, for the life of the deal. Union caps protect playing contracts. Nothing caps this.
84%
of the $2.6B NIL economy lands with football and men's basketball. Every other athlete is negotiating alone.
~2%
of NCAA athletes turn pro. The other 98% still sign deals, camps and appearances with no one in their corner.
leaeSources: NIL industry estimates 2026 · NCAA · NFLPA / NBPA fee caps
02 — The solution
You're the agent now. Leave gives you the information.
Connect
Say "Hey Leave."
Add Leave to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. It reads back what's already public about you and builds your profile by voice.
Understand
Every contract, explained.
Upload any deal. Leave labels the six parts in plain language: term, deliverables, usage rights, payment dates, exclusivity, termination.
See the market
A web, not advice.
Who is signing athletes like you, which programs you qualify for, which payment lands when. Built from public data. Never sold.
leaeInformation, not advice · Not an agent · One subscription, zero cut
03 — How it works
Four beats. No forms.
01
Create your account
Sign up once at leaveyouragent.com. Under 18, a parent or guardian opens it and becomes the Talent Teammate.
02
Say "Hey Leave"
Inside the AI you already use. Leave knows your stats, roster and socials from public record and asks you to confirm.
03
Tell it the rest
Your major, your side hustle, your causes. Saved to your Web, encrypted so only you can read it.
04
Open the app
Profile, the Web and every contract, explained. Yours for the whole career, exportable forever.
leaeiOS and Android at launch
04 — Product
One connection. Two surfaces.
leaeLeave inside Claude · iOS Web · iOS contract · Mock screens on mock data
05 — What's next
From contracts to the whole career.
Live · Oct 1, 2026
The information
"Hey Leave" in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
Contracts, every clause explained
The Web, spun from public data
iOS and Android apps, Talent Teammate seat
H1 2027
The habit
Talent Teammate notes and confirmations
Payment and deadline reminders from every contract
Learn series: commissions, exclusivity, usage rights
Storage and Web add-ons
H2 2027
The market
Premium sports data feeds
Deal comparables: what athletes like you signed for
Reply drafts for offers, athlete sends
Pro leagues: NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, WNBA
2028 and on
The network
Teams and brands pay athletes through Leave
Brands find the right athletes; athletes keep 100%
Post-career: likeness, archive, second act
International leagues, family plans
leaeStill one subscription. Still zero cut.
06 — Where this goes
Infrastructure for sports.
A connected network. Every athlete on it for life. Every team and brand paying and finding athletes through it. One set of rails under all of sports.
Every athlete
Childhood to post-career.
One profile, one record of every deal and every payment, from the first youth camp to the second act. The athlete owns it. No agent, no cut.
Every team and brand
Pay and connect through Leave.
Teams and brands pay athletes on Leave rails, built on licensed payment infrastructure. Brands find the athletes who fit, with terms both sides understand, and disclosures handled.
A movement
"Leave your agent."
Athletes tell athletes. When the whole locker room is on it, the network is the product and the agent model is over.
leaeSubscription first · Add-ons and payment fees on top
07 — Why now
Three things changed this year.
2025–26
AI assistants are the front door
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini all take connectors through the open MCP standard. Leave plugs in where athletes already talk.
2025
NIL became a paycheck
The House settlement lets schools pay athletes directly, up to $20.5M a year each. More money, more contracts, the same few agents.
2026
One person can run it
Frontier AI models write, ship and support the product. Leading AI lab CEOs have publicly put 70–80% odds on the first one-person billion-dollar company arriving this year.
leaeSources: House v. NCAA settlement 2025 · public statements by AI lab leadership, 2026
08 — Market
Every athlete. Every year of the career.
8.3MUS high school athletes, a record (NFHS 2024–25)
550KNCAA athletes, a record (NCAA 2024–25)
~700Kprofessional athletes worldwide; 380K represented by 5,500 agencies
265Mactive footballers worldwide (FIFA); 610M play basketball twice a month (FIBA)
Money already moving
$2.6BNIL economy, 2026
$6–10Bsports agency services, 2026
$40–62Byouth sports, 2026
Beachhead
8.9M US high school and college athletes and their parents. Then 700K pros worldwide. Then everyone who plays.
leaeSources: NFHS · NCAA · Verified Market Research · FIFA · FIBA · Research and Markets
09 — Business model
$99 a month. Three revenue lines. No cut.
What a 15% agent takes on $200K of NIL deals, a year
$30,000
What Leave costs, a year
$1,188
The math athletes do themselves. It's the whole marketing plan.
Per athlete, per year
Base · $99 a month, card up front, 30 days free$1,188
Add-ons · storage and the Web, about $20 a month on average$240
Payments · 1% net on about $20K a year paid through Leave$200
Blended · grows with the athlete's data, needs and income$1,628
leaeIllustrative. Add-on and payment volumes are assumptions. Payments run through a licensed processor; the 1% is net of processing fees.
10 — Revenue potential
What the athlete numbers become.
AthletesRevenue / moRun cost / moARR, base only
50$4,950~$350$59K
1,000$99K~$6.3K$1.2M
10,000$990K~$61K$11.9M
100,000$9.9M~$605K$119M
1,000,000$99M~$6.0M$1.2B
61,000 paying athletes is 0.7% of US high school and college athletes. At ten times ARR, $100M is a billion-dollar company.
Blended, about $1,628 a year
Base $1,188, add-ons $240, payment fees $200. $100M ARR at about 61,000 athletes. $200M at about 123,000.
Run cost
Payment processing, AI tokens and infrastructure. About $50 a month fixed at launch, then $6 to $7 per athlete. Roughly 94% gross margin at every tier.
leaeTable is base subscription only, 100% paid. Cost estimates from the Leave architecture plan, Sept 2026.
11 — Break-even
Profitable at about 310 paying athletes.
What Leave costs to run, per month
AI models and cloud platform$13.9K
Founder and operations$11.1K
Legal, compliance, insurance$3.3K
Infrastructure at launch$0.05K
Fixed. One engineer, no hires.
$28.4K a month
Each paying athlete contributes $92.50 on the base plan: $99 less $6.50 of payment processing, AI tokens and infrastructure.
Monthly profit by paying athletes, base only
50 · launch cohort, October 2026−$24K
310 · break-even$0
2,000 · end of 2027 target+$157K
15,000 · end of 2028 target+$1.36M
60,000 · end of 2029 target+$5.5M
Headcount stays at one, so fixed cost stays at $28.4K while revenue scales. With add-ons and payment fees, break-even drops to about 220 athletes.
leaeFixed costs over the first 18 months. Variable cost from the architecture plan.
12 — The next four years
Four years, from hard numbers.
Year endPaying athletesOf 8.9MARR, baseWhat gets them there
20272,0000.02%$2.4MYouth programs, first ambassadors, the Learn series
202815,0000.17%$17.8MCollege NIL season, Teammate referrals, add-ons
202960,0000.7%$71MPro leagues, premium data, first international leagues
2030200,0002.2%$238MTeam and brand payments on Leave rails, family plans
The hard numbers underneath
$99 a month, $1,188 a year per athlete. About 94% gross margin. 8.9M US high school and college athletes today. 50 accounts on October 1.
Not counted
Add-ons and payment fees, which lift blended revenue about 37% to $1,628 per athlete. 700K pros worldwide, international athletes. 1M paying athletes is $1.2B ARR on base alone.
leaeTargets. ARR = paying athletes × $1,188. Growth is the assumption; price and margin are not.
13 — Go to market
How athletes find Leave.
Youth pipeline
Youth sports programs
Partner programs bring Leave to youth athletes and their parents at 13 to 14, when the account and the vocabulary start. Accounts start at 13, opened by a parent or guardian.
Ambassadors
Athletes on equity
A 10% pool of equity for athletes who promote Leave. Owners, not spokespeople. Aligned for the whole career.
Athlete channels
Their feeds, not ad buys
Ambassadors post the math from their own TikTok, Instagram and YouTube: $30,000 to an agent, $1,188 to Leave. No paid media at launch.
Deal-side network
Industry advisors
Advisors with years of league, team and brand deals open doors to athlete groups, players' associations and collectives.
leaeMarketing is equity, not cash. Every message: you have the information now.
14 — Team
One founder.
Christopher HorneFounder
Christopher is the Founder of Leave, responsible for the company's technical architecture, security, and AI infrastructure. He brings over 15 years of experience building enterprise-grade software across regulated, high-performance environments, including work spanning government, aerospace, and large-scale SaaS platforms. At Leave, Christopher leads the development of a secure, scalable intelligence layer that turns public records and uploaded contracts into plain-language threads for the athlete. His background in complex systems engineering ensures Leave is built for security, reliability, extensibility, and long-term scale as the platform evolves.
leaeTeam as of September 2026
15 — The company
Headcount: 1. Now and at a billion.
The thesis
Leading AI lab CEOs are openly betting on the year the first one-person billion-dollar company appears. The public odds for 2026 sit at 70–80%.
The proof
A one-person telehealth company launched in 2024 with $20K and no employees, did $401M in revenue in its first full year, and is tracking $1.8B in 2026.
The path
One engineer, frontier AI models, 94% margin, profitable at 310 athletes. Then the network: every athlete, payment rails, brand access. The end state is a multi-billion-dollar acquisition.
leaeSources: public reporting, 2026 · available on request
16 — Compliance, 18 months
Built for minors, regulators and partners.
FrameworkWhy it applies and how it gets doneCostWhen
Age gateHard 13+. Birth date checked at sign-up; athletes 13 to 17 through a parent or guardian account. Founder builds the flow and notice; counsel reviews both.$8KAt launch
US state privacyCCPA/CPRA plus 19 states. Policy generator, founder-built data map, export and delete already shipped. Counsel pass on the final policy.$5KAt launch
GDPR / UK GDPREncryption, export and delete already built. Template kit, self-written DPIA, counsel review. EU rep and DPO only when international leagues open.$5K2027 · 2029
SOC 2 Type 1Only when a league or partner asks. Founder collects evidence, the cloud provider's own SOC 2 covers infrastructure, boutique auditor. No compliance platform.$10KIf asked
NIL and FTCCollege athletes report deals over $600 within five business days; 44 states permit high school NIL. Template ambassador agreement, #ad policy, counsel review.$4KAt launch
InsuranceCyber liability and tech errors-and-omissions, $1M limits. Market priced; median startup cyber premium is about $3K a year.$8KAt launch
Counsel and IPStandard SAFE and FAST advisor forms, self-filed trademark. Paid counsel for athlete equity grants (minors, 409A), App Store terms, "information, not advice".$20KOngoing
leaeTotals $60K over 18 months. PCI and money transmission sit with the payment processor. Leave is not an agent and gives no advice.
17 — Milestones
Eighteen months. Four marks.
Oct 1, 2026
Live
iOS and Android in the app stores. MCP connector on ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Billing on.
Q4 2026
First 50
50 youth accounts with Talent Teammates through youth sports programs.
Q1 2027
Ambassadors
Athletes on equity promoting Leave from their own channels. Break-even at 310 paying.
Q1 2028
Seed-ready
10,000 accounts, retention through a full season. Raise the seed.
leaeTargets, not projections
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leaeChristopher Horne · leaveyouragent.com