AlignedFTW is the team assistant that handles the chasing, the questions, and the game-day scramble, so the hours you give to your team go to actual coaching.
Reaches every family the way they prefer: text or email.
What burns coaches out isn't the game. It's chasing replies, fielding the same questions, and finding out you're short on players the morning of. AlignedFTW takes each of those off your plate.
Ask once, and AlignedFTW follows up, nudging only the people who haven't answered, on the channel they actually check (text or email). Watch confirmations roll in instead of sending "just checking in…" texts.
A live readiness signal watches every upcoming game. If you're trending short on players, you know days ahead, with time to fix it, not at 7 AM in the parking lot.
"Is it still on?" "What do we wear?" Families ask AFTW in the app and get your answer, from your schedule and your rules, instead of texting you. The answers exist before the questions arrive.
AlignedFTW works on its own, or right alongside whatever you already use for rosters and scheduling. Already set up on another platform? No problem: pulling your roster and schedule into AlignedFTW takes minutes.
Snap a picture of your roster, upload a spreadsheet, or paste a calendar link. AlignedFTW builds your team from what you already have, even if your league runs on something else.
Text or email: each parent chooses how the team reaches them, individually. AlignedFTW handles the rest, so one message reaches everyone.
Families answer availability with a single tap, right from the message they received. No hoops, no friction, which means you actually get answers.
Headcount thresholds, arrival times, alert timing: every team is different, so everything is configurable. Set an arrival time once and it lands in every family's calendar as its own pregame entry, ahead of the game itself.
Coaching the 10U and the 12U this season? Each team keeps its own roster, schedule, and rules. Switch between them in a tap.
See exactly who's been reached, who's replied, and who's gone quiet, per person and per event, so nothing falls through the cracks.
Name your uniforms once and set the rule: home, away, doubleheaders, practice days. Every game shows what to wear on the schedule, in families' calendars, and in the reminder, piece by piece.
Type it or say it: "Practice Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 through November, skip Thanksgiving." Ask AFTW reads it back as a schedule and saves it when you say so. Call off a week, change a start time, or add a game the same way.
Set the season's dues, record payments as they come in, and see who's paid at a glance. Families see what they owe and where to pay, by Venmo or Zelle, with a reminder when it's outstanding.
Cancel a game and every family hears right away, by text or email. It stays on the schedule marked canceled, their calendars update, and one tap puts it back on.
Paste the tournament link or screenshot pool play and the bracket, and AlignedFTW builds each day and game for you. Before pool play ends, every time your team might play shows up once, saying which finish plays when, so families can plan the whole day. When the bracket updates or a day rains out, read it again: you see exactly what changed and approve it before anything moves.
We've all been on the other side, digging through group chats to find a field address, wondering if the 8 AM game survived last night's rain. AlignedFTW is as kind to families as it is to coaches.
Team tools touch kids' information and real families' weekends. We hold ourselves to standards that reflect that.
Nothing sends itself unless you've explicitly set the rules for when it can. Every automated action is one you authored. The coach decides, always.
Family contact information, often kids' families, is never sold, rented, or handed to anyone for their own use. It's used to run your team and nothing else. Not for marketing, not for convenience, not ever.
Every count, status, and alert comes from transparent, auditable logic. When you make a call based on AlignedFTW, you can show your work.
Anything a great team parent or assistant coach would handle for you, AlignedFTW handles, with judgment and no agenda of its own. Just help, with no opinions from outside the chalk lines.
Timely, focused reminders that go only to the people who haven't responded, automatically, on the schedule you set. The rest of the team never gets worn out because a few families are behind.
Teach AlignedFTW your team's standards, like uniform combinations and arrival times, and it answers parents' questions directly. Real issues reach you; the noise doesn't.
Ten confirmed players can still be a problem if none of them catch. AlignedFTW knows the details behind the top-line number: positions, coverage, who plays where. So it doesn't just tell you you're short, it tells you you're short a catcher.
Need a guest to fill a gap, like that catcher? AlignedFTW helps you find the right one and automatically includes them in communications for the events they're part of. No separate text threads, no juggling side channels.
AlignedFTW is free on iPhone, Android and the web, starting with softball and baseball, built to fit any team sport.
On a computer? Use AlignedFTW on the web with the same sign-in.