The knowledge base of the racquet sports ecosystem.
Venues, markets, people, policy and investment — connected in one evidence base and turned into answers, alerts and business cases for everyone who builds, runs, supplies, coaches, governs or funds racquet sports.
Sourced, calculated, or named. Never guessed.
RacqI in ninety seconds.
Rachele Gaebel, founder of RacqI, shows how more than 350 sources become one evidence base — and the four engines that turn it into decisions.
1½ minutes · with sound · EnglishRead the transcript
I'm Rachele, founder of RacqI. Racquet sports are booming. But most decisions are still made on instinct. Let me show you what we built.
The knowledge is out there — scattered across more than 350 sources. We collect it, cross-check it, and connect it into four foundations.
The venue base: 170,000 venues and 600,000 courts — built from more than 150 sources, and cross-checked. The context: over 200 data sources — some read live, the moment you ask. The signals: fifteen kinds of market movement, every week. And the knowledge: forty years of operating practice — nearly 800 benchmarks.
Ask RacqI anything. Or go deeper with four engines. Atlas: the market as it is today. Radar: what moves in your market. Simulator: what a new build returns. X-Ray: where you stand — and what lifts you.
One evidence base for every role in the ecosystem. We use AI to open up this knowledge — not to invent it.
That's RacqI. Bring your own question — and see for yourself.
One evidence base. Every role in the ecosystem.
Six kinds of organisation make decisions about racquet sports. RacqI frames the same evidence for each of them.
Racquet sports are booming. The evidence has not kept up.
Padel and pickleball are growing fast, venues are turning multi-sport, governments fund physical activity as health policy, and institutional capital has arrived. Yet decisions across the ecosystem — where to build, where to coach, what to fund — still rest on instinct and scattered reports.
Show the figures
| Sport | New opening | Expansion | Closure | Temporary closure | Investment | Sale / M&A | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Padel | 556 | 140 | 18 | 1 | 49 | 9 | 773 |
| Pickleball | 307 | 70 | 4 | 3 | 21 | · | 405 |
| Tennis | 175 | 127 | 20 | 4 | 29 | 7 | 362 |
| Badminton | 31 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 3 | · | 58 |
| Squash | 23 | 21 | 10 | 1 | 4 | · | 59 |
General AI knows a great deal. RacqI knows your market.
Use any assistant you like for thinking and writing. When a decision rests on facts about racquet sports, RacqI brings what no general model carries.
Evidenced, not plausible.
Every figure sourced, calculated or named as an assumption. Every answer passes eleven checks before you see it.
Remembers, not snapshots.
RacqI watches the ecosystem every week — venues, investment, coaching, policy, funding and participation — so it knows what changed since you last looked.
Calculates, not estimates.
Supply, demand and payback computed in code against the Institute's benchmarks. The language model writes; it never does the arithmetic.
Your market on one screen. Ask anything. Four engines to go deeper.
Every user gets their own Home. Set role, country and sports once — Home then shows the radars you follow, what RacqI still needs from you and the world market, updated every week. RacqI Intelligence takes any question about the ecosystem; when a decision needs more, one of four engines takes it further.
The engines are software. The evidence took forty years.
170,000+ venues, each classified.
600,000+ courts, built from 150+ sources and cross-checked. Type, operator model, sports, prices, programmes.
Four decades of operating know-how.
Nearly 800 benchmark values for costs, utilisation, demand and financing — from the Racquet Sports Institute’s practice, built into RacqI’s own benchmark modules.
220+ data sources kept current.
Each with its vintage and its next refresh — 13 of them queried live, the moment you ask.
A weekly record of the ecosystem.
15 signal themes on how venues, investment, coaching, policy and participation move — which no one can collect after the fact.
RacqI watches the market, not its users. Every week the Atlas and the Radar take in what has changed — so every answer starts from today.
A directory sees two venues. RacqI sees two different businesses.
See the evidenceSee RacqI on your own question.
For investors, public bodies and partners: a free 30-minute demo of the app, run live on a question you bring.
Book a demoRacquet Sports Intelligence. Venues, markets, people, policy and investment in one evidence base. Sourced, calculated, or named. Never guessed.