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Kitman Labs
Athlete management platform holding medical, injury and load data from other systems in one record
As of 31 August 2026, Kitman Labs's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A Dublin platform that aggregates wearable output, medical notes, wellness questionnaires and screening into a single athlete record. Softwr lists it under Sports. Kitman Labs is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Kitman Labs does
Kitman Labs sells an athlete management system: a record for each athlete combining medical and injury history, treatment notes, wellness and readiness questionnaires, screening results and physical output imported from wearables and force plates. Medical, performance and coaching staff work from the same record, and the platform reports across squads and seasons. The distinguishing point is that it is a layer rather than a source. It generates no data of its own and its value is proportional to how many feeds a club already has, which means it is the second or third purchase in a performance programme rather than the first. The company also acquired the Australian firm behind Smartabase, which placed two established and competing athlete management platforms under one owner. Any buyer on either product should ask directly which platform receives new development, because the answer determines whether a five-year implementation is an investment or a migration waiting to happen. Buyers are professional clubs, national federations and college athletics departments with sports science and medical staff already in place. The trade-off is scope and obligation: implementation is a project with data migration and staff training, and the moment injury and treatment records live in it, the platform is holding health data about identified individuals, with the access controls, retention rules and subject access responses that follow.
What people use it for
- A club with several data sources and no single place where medical and performance staff see the same athlete
- A federation standardising injury surveillance across national teams and age groups
- A medical department that needs an auditable record of treatment and return-to-play decisions
- A college athletics department consolidating screening and availability reporting across many sports
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Kitman Labs.
- It produces no data itself, so a club without wearables, screening protocols or a testing routine buys an empty platform and blames the software.
- Implementation is a project rather than a purchase, involving historical data migration and staff process change, and it commonly takes a season to reach useful adoption.
- Pricing is organisational and multi-year, which puts it out of reach of clubs below a certain budget regardless of how much they would benefit.
- Holding injury and treatment records makes the platform a store of health data about identified athletes, so the club needs role separation, retention rules and a process for responding when a player requests their record.
- The acquisition of a competing athlete management platform leaves two products with overlapping purpose under one owner, and buyers on either should get a written answer on long-term development before committing.
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Pricing
What Kitman Labs costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Kitman Labs
On request
- Licensed per organisation
- Implementation and data migration quoted separately
- Modules licensed individually
- Multi-year agreements typical
Capabilities
Features
Unified athlete record
Medical, screening, wellness and physical data held against one athlete profile
Injury and treatment tracking
Diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation progress recorded by medical staff
Wellness questionnaires
Daily athlete self-reporting collected on mobile and trended over time
Third-party data ingestion
Feeds imported from wearables, force plates and testing equipment
Role-based access
Separate permissions so coaching staff do not see clinical detail
Squad and longitudinal reporting
Availability, workload and injury patterns reported across seasons
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Do we need wearables to use it?
Not strictly, but most of the value comes from combining feeds. With only manual questionnaire entry the platform is an expensive form.
Can coaches see medical notes?
Access is role-based and should be configured so they cannot. Getting that separation right is a governance decision, not a default, and it is worth auditing after go-live.
What happened with Smartabase?
Kitman Labs acquired the company behind it, putting two competing athlete management platforms under one owner. Ask which one your contract commits you to and where development is going.
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