Development roadmap
What we have shipped, what is being built now, and what we are researching. Court Intel is developed by the people who fit and run it, so this page moves every week.
Being built and tested on our bench now. Dates are targets, not promises.
A camera on every court and the gate, shown on the staff dashboard beside each court's bookings, and a replay button that saves the last 30 seconds and sends the clip to the players on that booking as a link. Recorded on the controller in the building on a rolling seven-day loop, so there is no continuous cloud video. Quoted per court with your venue.
A locker bank in the club that sells balls, grips and racket hire from the same page a player opens the door with. Paid on the phone, dispensed by the controller. The software is live; the locker hardware is being fitted to the bench.
Door sensors on the locker bank confirm a racket is back, release the deposit and restock the locker without anyone tapping anything.
Shop takings settle straight to the club's own account, with our fee taken automatically. One onboarding link, no paperwork.
Connect the club's Instagram and Facebook once, and finished matches, the weekly table and the monthly winner post themselves as branded cards. Today a player or the club shares them from the phone in one tap.
Six or more courts switched from one industrial relay module on the controller's field bus, so a multi-court venue needs no wireless devices in the plant room.
A 4G module in the controller keeps the phone entry button, alerts and monitoring alive when the venue's broadband drops. A 5G option follows once the module is proven.
Staff and coaches check in and out at the gate reader with their own code, or a fob, instead of the shared daily code. Every check-in lands in a timesheet beside the rota, showing rostered hours against hours worked, ready for payroll or invoices.
Sense people on an unbooked court and ask them, by voice, to book or leave. Sensor choice and the false-alarm rate are being tested before this is offered.
Longer-range work: we publish what we learn, and we only promise what we have proven.
Automatic detection of rallies, shot types and where the ball lands, built on openly licensed padel video datasets. We are honest about the gap between a demo and a product: player identity, consent and accuracy across venues are the hard parts, and we will not sell it until they are solved.
The same booking-driven door and lighting stack fits other bookable, unstaffed spaces. We have studied where the demand is strongest and will trial one non-padel site before offering it.
Every venue already sees what each lit hour costs. The next step is recommending lighting windows and tariffs from the booking pattern, using the occupancy data the controller collects.
Software updates reach every venue automatically; nothing has to be installed at the club.
Any day of the rota opens as a timeline: who is in, their hours, first in and last out, and how many staff are on through the day. Clubs set their opening hours once, and the rota flags every stretch when the club is open with nobody on site.
Staff request holiday on the rota and name who is covering. The cover gets an email and confirms or declines from their phone; a supervisor can only authorise once they have, and the shifts then move to the cover automatically, with both people told.
A weekly rota on the staff dashboard: shifts by person and day, hours, who is on now, last week copied in one click, every person emailed their own shifts, and the week ready to send to the staff WhatsApp group or print.
Email the whole team, a role or chosen people from the dashboard, with replies going to the club, and send the same message to the staff WhatsApp group in one tap. Staff only: Court Intel never messages a venue's customers.
Every venue's dashboard carries a step-by-step installation guide for its electrician, with the kit list, wiring drawings and a tick for each step, so commissioning can be followed remotely.
A section menu that stays on screen, today's bookings split by court, condensed gate and lighting logs with filters, and a clear marker on any court without a camera. The dashboard now also keeps your place after an action instead of jumping to the top.
Pick a time for a video call from live availability on the website, with no forms or back-and-forth emails.
The scorer, leaderboard, club shop and rules guide can each be switched on or off for a venue: Court Intel sets what a plan includes, and a supervisor on the staff dashboard can turn an included feature on or off for the club at any time.
A plain-English guide to the court, scoring, the serve, the walls and court etiquette, linked from the page every player opens at the door and from the leaderboard.
Every match scored to a finish can count towards the venue's monthly leaderboard, with a prize the club names for the top of the table. Players choose whether a match goes on the table when they start it, appear as first name and initial only, and can remove themselves at any time. A finished match can be shared as a result card to Instagram, Facebook or WhatsApp straight from the phone.
Players on a booking tap the four names into two teams and score the match from any phone: points, games and sets, golden point or advantage, tie-break at six all, best of one or three sets, with undo. Every phone on the booking shows the same score.
The whole platform, controller software, website and tooling, is now under version control with a version number stamped on every release, and this roadmap page went live.
Players who have opened the door can buy balls, grips or hire a racket on the same page. Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay through Stripe; a locker in the club pops open. Staff see stock, takings and every order on the dashboard, and can open or restock a locker with the supervisor PIN.
The reader's green light and tone now sound the moment the last digit lands, and codes keyed back to back are handled without queuing.
The link between the controller and our servers was hardened after a rare database contention was traced and fixed. The phone entry button and heartbeat now ride through it without interruption.
The controller moved to a fanless industrial build: metal case, isolated field buses for readers and relays, an isolated safety input for the fire alarm, dual Ethernet and a slot for cellular failover. Doors and lights keep working with no internet.
Outdoor-rated reader from a tier-one access-control manufacturer, on a supervised link with tamper reporting, with feedback on the reader for every accepted or refused code. Fobs and cards supported for a later release.
The staff dashboard shows whether the door reader is online, when a key was last pressed, and warns about a wiring fault before anyone is stuck at the door.
Resetting the staff code, opening the door for a caller and changing who gets the code now need a supervisor PIN as well as the staff password. Every open, refusal and reset is listed on the dashboard, with a warning when one booking opens the door unusually often.
A player who has proved their booking can send the door code to the friends they added by name, from the phone page, without us messaging anyone.
The home page went from 15.7 MB to 0.4 MB, and the Insights section launched with articles on what venues pay for automation and who can get through the gate.
Booking-driven door access: each booking gets its own code for its own slot, players also get an Open the door button on their phone, coaches and staff get a daily code emailed to the people the club chooses, and the door keeps working with the internet down.
Published Venue Terms, accepted at sign-up and emailed to the venue, and one price list: Lights, Unstaffed (lights plus door) and Analytics.
The ready-to-send messages for an empty hour, with the weather already in them, moved to the staff dashboard where the desk actually uses them.
An external-style review of the whole estate: every sign-in got lockout protection, sessions were separated per area, and private files were locked down. The findings and fixes drive the release list.
Units keep a copy of the day's bookings so lights follow the schedule even when the venue's broadband comes back slower than the controller. Persistent logging means an outage can be diagnosed afterwards.
If a relay's cloud service is down, the controller talks to it directly on the venue network, and alerts you only if both routes fail.
Device-bound licences, Stripe billing with automatic tax, and fleet monitoring that alerts us when a unit or a booking feed goes quiet.
Venues shape the order we build in. Tell us what would make the biggest difference at yours.
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