XO Gridmaker

AI coaching partner

Meet Coach Cal.

An AI football coaching partner that generates plays, audits your playbook for weaknesses, plans practices, and answers the questions you'd otherwise text another coach about. Built for youth, flag, 7v7, and tackle — and free to try for 7 days.

Coach Cal

scoped to: Flag Football

We don't have anything to beat Cover 3 from Trips Right. Add one.
Added “Trips Right Sail” — a 3-level flood concept that floods the boundary side: corner from the X, deep dig from the slot, flat from the H. Beats both Cover 3 and Cover 1 with rotation. Saved to your playbook.
Now build a 60-min practice around it for 8u.
Done. Skill block: route stems & catch. Group block: vs. air → vs. shell. Team block: 12 reps with 4 reads. Saved as Practice Plan #4.

What Coach Cal does

Real coaching work.

Coach Cal speaks the same structured-play format the editor uses, so generated plays animate, print, and share like anything you'd draw by hand.

Generate plays from a description

“Build me a screen pass that beats blitz pressure.” Coach Cal writes the formation, routes, blocks, and motions straight into the editor — fully editable like any play you'd draw yourself.

Draft a starter playbook

Tell Coach Cal your variant, age tier, and scheme philosophy. It builds a complete playbook — concepts, formations, tags — that you can refine instead of starting from a blank page.

Audit your playbook for weaknesses

“Look at my playbook and tell me what's missing.” Coach Cal flags gaps like “no counter to Cover 3,” “two short-yardage plays attacking the same gap,” or “no underneath option from this formation.”

Strategy vs. specific defenses

Paste a defense — or upload an opponent snapshot — and ask how to attack it. Coach Cal proposes specific plays from your playbook, with reads and adjustments.

Practice plans on demand

Generate a full practice plan with timed blocks, parallel skill / line / specialist activities, drill suggestions tied to your plays, and equipment lists. Saved as a Practice Plan inside your playbook.

Bulk edits across your playbook

“Convert every Trips formation to Empty.” “Tag every motion play.” “Re-color the slot routes blue.” Coach Cal applies sweeping changes in seconds without you clicking through every play.

Scoped to: Flag Football

  • 7 formations, 26 plays
  • Tags: Shotgun, Trips, Bunch, Empty
  • 4 practice plans · 6 game logs

Coach Cal pulls in your playbook contents when you scope a chat to it — so suggestions reference the formations, plays, tags, and notes you've already created.

Knows your playbook

Grounded in your X's and O's.

By default Coach Cal is a general-purpose coaching chat. Open it from a playbook page or toggle the playbook scope and it pulls in that playbook's plays, formations, tags, and notes. Suggestions are concrete — “add a Sail off your existing Trips Right” — not generic. Add a play, audit the gaps, propose counters: it's all anchored to what your team actually runs.

Switch playbooks and the context switches with you. Need to keep something private? Don't scope a chat to that playbook — Coach Cal won't see it.

Right answer for your level

Age-tier and variant aware.

Coach Cal's knowledge base is segmented by age tier (8u flag through high school) and football variant. Practice templates, drill suggestions, and play complexity all adjust so you're not getting high-school-level concepts for a 3rd-grade flag team.

5v5 Flag

8u, 10u, 12u — concept-first, motion-friendly.

7v7

Skill-position passing concepts and route trees.

11-man tackle

Full-line schemes, run game, special teams.

Your conversations stay yours.

Coach Cal sends your messages to OpenAI or Anthropic (whichever we've configured as the active provider) to generate responses. Both providers' API terms forbid training on customer data by default. We don't share your conversations with anyone, and you can delete a thread from inside the chat. See the Privacy policy for the full sub-processor list.

  • Tied to your account — no cross-coach leakage.
  • Threads deletable from the chat UI.
  • No training on your data per provider API terms.
  • Playbook scope is opt-in, per chat.

Pricing

One plan, free to try.

Coach Pro

$25/month

or $250/year

7-day free trial
  • Coach Cal AI — ask anything, get instant answers
  • 200 Coach Cal messages per month included
  • Generate plays and full playbooks with AI
  • Strategy feedback vs. specific defenses
  • Bulk formation edits across your playbook

Need more? Add a 100-message pack for $5/month — packs stack on top of your monthly allowance.

Common questions

More about how Coach Cal works.

The FAQ has 11 dedicated Coach Cal questions — what it can do, how scoping works, message limits, the underlying AI model, and our privacy posture.

Read the Coach Cal FAQ

Try Coach Cal free for 7 days.

No credit card to start. Build your first playbook on the free plan, then turn Coach Cal on when you're ready for AI plays, playbook reviews, and practice plans.