Built by a travel ball parent
who got tired of Venmo.
Chalk started because I was coaching my son Wyatt's travel baseball team and spending more time chasing payments than coaching baseball.
Every week it was the same thing: send a Venmo request to 12 families, wait, follow up with the three who hadn't paid, answer the same schedule questions in a group text that had spiraled out of control, find the paper roster that someone lost, and somehow still find time to actually plan practice.
I built the first version of Chalk over a weekend to solve my own problem. Then I showed it to another coach at a tournament and they asked if they could use it.
That was the moment Chalk became a product. We're building in Colorado, starting with the travel ball community we know best, and expanding from there.
— Jared Rutkowski, Founder
Coach, travel baseball dad, Colorado
What we believe
Coach-first
We build for the person standing on the sideline, not the admin sitting at a desk. Every decision starts with: does this make a coach's life easier?
Payments-first
The #1 pain point for every team we've talked to is collecting money. We solved that first and built everything else around it.
Colorado-first
We're launching in Colorado and winning here before we expand. We know this community. Local knowledge beats generic software every time.
Small team. Direct line.
We're a small team right now. That means every coach who signs up gets a direct line to the person who built it. Email jared@chalksports.com and I'll actually reply.
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