Questions we hear most.

No. R1 is not a test, a score, or a ranking system. It tracks readiness: the combination of Mind, Body, and Energy states that determine whether your child is ready to engage in sport, school, and life. There are no “good” or “bad” readiness states. R1 illuminates. It doesn’t judge.

Yes. R1 supports general physical literacy and daily readiness for children who aren’t sport-active yet. Confidence, movement, and energy habits belong to every childhood; sport is one place they show up. The daily check-in, the Mind tools, and the fueling guidance work the same on a nothing-scheduled Saturday as they do on game day.

You control everything. As a parent, you see the full picture: daily readiness, three-domain breakdown, trends, and early warnings. Coaches see only the readiness state and a coaching prompt, and only if you grant permission. Your child sees their overall state in age-appropriate language. Organizations see only aggregate patterns, never individual data.

Minutes to check in and log habits. The rest of R1 is the program those minutes drive: Mind, Body, and Energy work sized to your child’s day. Younger children do it with you; older ones run it themselves and you act on what you see.

R1 is designed to feel like the child’s own, not an obligation. For younger children, the parent uses the information to guide their daily habits. For older children, the system respects their autonomy: the check-in is brief, the tools are fun and effective, and the language is positive. There’s no penalty for missing a day. Any and all inputs adjust the daily suggestions. If your child doesn’t want to participate, you can withdraw at any time.

Two ways. You can download R1 from the App Store or Google Play and subscribe in the app. Or, if your club has adopted R1, you’ll enroll at registration. If it hasn’t yet, share R1 with your club director. Every partnership starts with a conversation.

R1 costs $72 per year for one child, about $6 a month. The family plan is $120 per year and covers two children, about $10 a month. Each additional child is $25 per year, so a family of four pays $170 per year, about $14 a month. All plans are billed once a year in the app, and you can cancel any time before renewal. Get the app.

No. R1 sells an app subscription. R1 does not sell supplements or other physical products.

100% of philanthropic gifts fund the national readiness study. That means enrolling children into the R1 platform, collecting longitudinal readiness data across Mind, Body, and Energy, and producing the first national readiness dataset. The study is funded at $50 per child, covering two years of R1. A gift of any size puts more children into the study.

Regular enrollment and milestone updates, full financial transparency, named recognition in the national dataset and associated publications, and early access to study findings. Details are on the Gift R1 page.

The Ready Collective, Inc. owns the aggregate dataset. Individual child data is private and controlled by parents. The aggregate dataset is designed to be shared with the research community and to support a federal research partnership application. Partners do not receive access to individual-level data.

The study is designed to scale. A smaller cohort still produces valuable longitudinal data: the methodology and dataset structure are the same at 10,000 athletes as at 100,000. The 100K target maximizes statistical power and demographic representation, but every enrolled child contributes to the evidence base.

Yes. Contributions to Ready First Scholarship qualify as tax-deductible through our fiscal sponsor, Players Philanthropy Fund, a registered 501(c)(3). Players Philanthropy Fund provides fiduciary oversight and financial reporting. Full fiscal-sponsor disclosure appears in the site footer. We are happy to provide any documentation needed for your records.

The national readiness study is designed to de-risk a federal funding application. By producing validated longitudinal data at scale, the study creates the proof of concept that makes a federal research partnership possible. Your philanthropic gift funds the evidence that makes federal infrastructure funding possible.

The Ready Collective is structured as a Delaware for-profit corporation to allow the flexibility to build a sustainable product business after the study phase. The national study is funded philanthropically through our fiscal sponsor, Players Philanthropy Fund, a registered 501(c)(3), but the long-term model ($50 per child per year, embedded in membership fees) is designed to be self-sustaining. A for-profit structure allows R1 to raise philanthropic capital now, conduct the study, and transition to earned revenue without restructuring. Your gift funds the research phase; the product sustains itself after that.

The study has a defined enrollment window. NGB partnerships are being finalized in 2026, with first athlete cohorts enrolling mid-year. Philanthropic gifts committed before enrollment begins receive founding partner recognition in the national dataset and all publications. The study proceeds on its timeline regardless; there is no indefinite fundraising phase.

If your foundation’s giving cycle aligns with Q2 or Q3 2026, this is the decision window.