Early Stage · Building in Public

We're not selling exposure.
We're telling the truth about fit.

VEKT is early. We're a small team building the thing recruiting has never had: a way to collect the soft data that decides games — how a kid takes coaching, owns a mistake, handles pressure — and match it to the programs that actually need it. Plain English. No match scores. No percentages.

Elliot Mark Leonard — Founder, VEKT
ELLIOT MARK LEONARDFOUNDER & ARCHITECT · D1 CAPTAIN (LEHIGH) · D1 ASST (FAU)
The Origin

A D1 captain who lived the problem.

Elliot Mark Leonard captained at Lehigh and coached as a D1 assistant at FAU. He saw the same thing from both sides of the clipboard: the recruiting industry sells exposure, inflates expectations, and takes money to do it. Every platform tells every athlete the top level is in reach. Almost none of them are.

The thing that actually decides whether a kid sticks — how they take coaching, own a mistake, handle pressure, read a locker room — never shows up on a stat sheet. Every coach knows it. Nobody had ever collected it, because nobody had a way to.

So he built VEKT. Three conversational AI agents that hold real conversations with the three people who know the truth about a player — the college coach, the athlete, and the club director — and none of them can see what the others said. Triple-blind. The honest record nobody else has.

VEKT is early stage. We're building it in the open, with the people who'll use it. If you're a coach, an athlete, or a director — you're not a user. You're a co-architect.

What we believe

Five principles that shape every decision we make.

Fit, not exposure

Other platforms sell exposure. Our model is fit, so we can tell the truth — including the no.

Triple-blind by design

None of the three can see what the others said. Nobody answers to impress anyone. That's why it's honest.

Plain English. No scores.

No match scores, no percentages, no star ratings. Sentences. Where you fit, and where you don't yet.

The director is the moat

The club director sees the kid every week. Their verified read is the thing coaches actually trust.

Soft data wins games

Stats and film are everywhere. How a kid takes coaching decides games. We collect what nobody else does.

AI is how, not what

AI, data, and automation are how it works. They're never the headline. The headline is the honest answer.

We're early. Join the first wave.

The first profiles set the standard.

If you're an athlete, a college coach, or a club director — create your profile, talk to your agent, and bring your people. The network gets stronger every time someone you trust joins.