Every site has a ceiling. RacqI calculates it — before the money is committed.
How many courts a location can carry, what the facility should be for, what it will cost to run for twenty years, and what comparable venues actually charge. For the people who build, run and fund courts — answered from a curated evidence base, sourced and citable.
The platform build is finished and running. The evidence base is filling, with daily intake. Pre-beta access opens on 18 August 2026 and is arranged individually; the first commercial customers arrive with the October 2026 launch. We say plainly when a source does not exist. The core claim — that curated evidence improves the decision — is under independent scientific examination, not asserted by us.
Every question is routed to the area that owns it — before it is answered.
Three domains, each divided into focus themes, each theme into the core competence areas beneath it. That is why an answer arrives framed in facility economics rather than general market colour.
Open the competence map
Ask anything in racquet sports and get a sharp, decision-ready answer — every figure sourced, calculated, or flagged as an assumption, never guessed. Need more, a full report follows on demand; on broad questions the Next Steps pillar maps out where to go from here.
Five sports on paper. One business underneath.
The common denominator is not the sport — it is the facility. Catchment, court mix, utilisation and cost base behave the same way across all five, which is why RacqI reads them as one market.
Fastest growth, thinnest evidence — booming where, for whom, at what price.
Social by design, low barrier to entry, increasingly built indoors.
The established base — and the land most conversions start from.
High court density per square metre; a different utilisation curve entirely.
Small footprint, loyal base — often the filler that makes a court mix work.
The venue is the asset, not the sport
Coaching, players, tournaments and equipment each need somewhere to happen. That somewhere is a defined area, a surface, most often a building — a decades-long capital commitment, and where money is committed and earned back.
Sport-by-sport is a federation habit
The market still thinks tennis-in-tennis, padel-in-padel. For a governing body that holds. For capital it is simply the wrong unit of analysis — and it leaves every cross-sport comparison unavailable.
Multi-sport facilities are the future
Venues already mix padel, pickleball and racquet formats under one roof to spread fixed costs and fill more hours. Court mix becomes a decision in itself — and the silo view cannot answer it.
A facility is a twenty-year bet placed in an afternoon.
What RacqI exists to changeFacilities do not fail at random. They fail at four basic decisions — each of which can be established before a single court is laid.
Every site has a ceiling
Catchment, purchasing power, age structure, competition. Build above the ceiling and the courts never fill; below it and the return was left on the table. It is rarely calculated — it is assumed.
Decide what it is for
Social hub, performance centre, premium club, tournament venue — each demands a different court mix, programme and staff. A facility that tries to be all of them is none of them.
There is a right number
Fixed costs barely move between three courts and eight. Too few and they can never be carried; too many and they stand empty at exactly the hours meant to pay for them.
Facts, or hope
Construction cost is negotiated line by line; twenty years of operating cost gets a single line. Revenue is projected from what the plan needs to earn. It looks like a calculation.
Racquet sports became an asset class. It is still being run on instinct.
The platform is built. Bring a decision and see what it returns.
Pre-beta access opens 18 August 2026, arranged individually. Commercial launch October 2026.
Racquet Sports Intelligence. Decision support for the facilities and eco system — padel, pickleball, tennis, badminton, squash.