Who's building this

A builder and a college baseball coach.

One of us has spent a decade solving problems and enabling businesses through technology — calling, contact center, automation, the un-sexy plumbing that makes modern communication actually work. The other has been inside small-program athletics his entire adult life — played D2, coached JUCO, HBCU, and mid-major D1. The platform exists because we couldn't find a tool that took both sides of this problem seriously.

Co-founder · tech

Austin Lutz

Charlotte, NC

Spends his day job leading a collaboration practice — enterprise calling, contact center, A/V, automation. Over a decade of solving problems and enabling businesses through technology — voice, video, AI, the un-sexy plumbing that makes modern communication actually work. He doesn't just spec systems; he builds them. The MCP server he wrote for Webex Calling ships on GitHub and replaces hours of admin GUI clicks with a few API calls.

On SponsorNote: same instinct, different domain. Programs were stuck handing sponsorship work to whichever assistant coach had time — the same pain shape as an admin clicking through a Webex GUI for the 800th time. The fix is the same too: build the thing, automate the busywork, give people back their afternoons. He builds the platform end-to-end — Next.js, Postgres, Stripe Connect, the partner API, the SSE stream, the NIL contract module. Every “Live” flag on the packages page is a personal commitment.

Where to find him

  • Day jobCollaboration practice lead

    Charlotte-based. Leads strategy + delivery for enterprise calling, contact center, and A/V — CUCM-to-Webex migrations, hybrid meeting rooms, cloud contact centers.

  • LutzTalkPodcast + writing

    Long-form on the systems behind modern communication — collaboration platforms, AI, networking, media tech. lutztalk.com

  • Open sourcemcp-webexcalling

    MCP server that automates Webex Calling admin work — user provisioning, call-queue audits, real-time analytics — instead of clicking through the GUI.

Co-founder · athletics

Forrest Arnold

West Columbia, SC · NC A&T

Pitching coach at NC A&T. Played four years at Coker University, then coached at a JUCO, an HBCU, a mid-major D1, and a national-tournament D1 program — every kind of athletic department the national sponsorship agencies don't bother to call. He's seen first-hand what a $500 local sponsorship actually means to a program's budget.

On SponsorNote: shapes the product around the constraints real athletic departments face — the compliance reality of NIL, the Title IX math, the “our AD has no sponsorship staff” problem that everybody outside small-college sports underestimates.

Career path

  • Pitching / Assistant CoachOct 2023 – present

    NC A&T (D1, MEAC)

  • Pitching Coach2022 – 2023

    Eastern Illinois (D1, OVC)

  • Volunteer Assistant2022

    Middle Tennessee State (D1, C-USA)

  • Pitching Coach2021

    Savannah State (D2, HBCU)

  • Head Coach2019 (Coach of the Year)

    Myrtle Beach Collegiate League

  • Pitching Coach2018 – 2020

    USC Union (JUCO)

  • RHPB.S. Sport Management, 2017

    Coker University (D2, SAC)

Why this team

Sponsorships are a software problem AND a relationship problem.

Most platforms in this space pick one side and lose. The agencies have relationships but no software. The point-of-sale tools have software but no idea what it's like to call up the local pizza shop and ask for $500 to fund a tournament weekend.

We split that. Austin makes sure the system actually works at scale — secure API, real-time analytics, audit logs, Stripe Connect, NIL compliance — without the hand-waving most early-stage sports tech gets away with. Forrest makes sure we're building for the people who actually have to use it: the assistant coach running fundraising as her seventh duty of the day, the local restaurant owner who needs to see redemptions on a phone, the compliance officer who needs school disclosure tracked.

It's the same pattern the best sports tech founding teams have used since the beginning — one person who can ship, one person who knows where the bodies are buried. We're lucky to be both of those, in the same room, building one thing.