A Springville startup has launched Coach Blitz, an all-in-one platform for managing soccer teams. The new company says its app goes beyond the mere logistics of team management and centers on coaching itself. The platform is now available for iOS, Android and the web.
Designed by coaches, for coaches, Coach Blitz goes beyond scheduling. It supports real coaching tasks like planning practices, managing match-day decisions, tracking player development and analyzing performance throughout the season. It is designed to effectively handle management of team levels from tots in recreation leagues to high-level competition teams.
The app’s core features were designed with insight from an Italian, licensed coach with professional experience and an American club coach with over a decade in
youth soccer.
“Before Coach Blitz, I juggled paper notes, emails and memory. It made coaching harder than it needed to be,” said a youth coach who uses Coach Blitz. “Now I plan practices ahead of time and manage games in real-time: subs, stats, timers — all from one screen. And at season’s end, I can show each player and parent exactly what they contributed. They love that.”
The app is free to use with the core features included. Advanced features are available through a paid Pro Plan. Coach Blitz subscribers receive regular updates to the platform, guided by feedback from coaches using the system in
the field.
Applause, a Salt Lake City-based performance and engagement platform for the field services industry, has launched Applause Scorecards, a new product designed to transform how field service businesses track, measure and improve technician performance. Applause Scorecards enables both field leaders and technicians to access real-time performance data, define key expectations and automate bonuses. As part of the existing Applause platform, technicians can view their personalized performance scorecards directly in the app they already use every day. “Today’s field service teams need more than basic reporting; they need visibility, motivation and the ability to act in real time,” said Joel Rager, vice president of product at Applause. “Scorecards bring structure and clarity to performance management, so both administrators and technicians know exactly where they stand. And because it’s built into the Applause app, there’s no learning curve or disruption, just immediate value.”
Salt Lake City-based health supplement company Better Being Co. has launched a new product under its Zhou Nutrition brand. Body Smooth is a cellulite-support supplement designed to support the appearance and texture of skin. “Most cellulite products are creams or oils. Body Smooth works differently — it’s a supplement that supports skin health from within,” said Caitlin Probst, marketing director for Zhou Nutrition. “Rather than masking the skin’s surface, our formula targets the nutritional factors that influence skin texture.” Body Smooth features hyaluronic acid to maintain skin moisture, Zhou said. It includes Vitamin C, an antioxidant and cofactor in the body’s synthesis of collagen. It also contains SOD-B Dimpless, a patented ingredient clinically shown to help reduce the appearance of cellulite on thighs when combined with a healthy diet and exercise. The product is available on the company’s website and at retailers nationwide.
Smarty, an address intelligence provider headquartered in Orem, has introduced its U.S. Property Risk Data product. The new application programming interface-based (API) solution transforms FEMA’s National Risk Index (NRI) into structured, address-level hazard intelligence, enabling insurers, lenders and real estate platforms to model risk and evaluate exposure at high speed and massive scale. The API returns more than 465 NRI data fields across 18 natural hazards, plus economic and population data, geographic identifiers and community resilience scores. This comprehensive data set covers every major natural threat to U.S. properties, Smarty said. “The challenge is never simply accessing FEMA data; it’s making it queryable at the individual property level,” said Brent Francom, Smarty’s director of product management. “We’ve essentially pre-computed the hazard profiles for every U.S. address, so a single API call returns everything you need for high-level risk assessment.”
ELB Learning, a provider of immersive learning solutions based in American Fork, has launched a new service called Sales Transformation & Enablement (ST&E). The service leverages behavioral science, advanced technology and talent optimization to equip enterprise sales leaders with data-informed strategies and buyer-aligned execution. ELB Learning said ST&E’s approach bridges the gap between training and real-world sales execution and shortens the training-to-revenue time span. “Traditional sales enablement is no longer enough. It fails to prepare teams for the complexity of today’s sales environment,” said Andrew Scivally, CEO of ELB Learning. “ST&E is designed to diagnose, design and activate systemic change by aligning strategy, talent and execution in a way that drives performance. When we’ve applied this approach, over 60 percent of teams have closed deals before their quota periods began. That is the kind of outcome we are delivering to our customers.”
Event management platform Stova is rolling out its Event Intelligence Suite, a powerful new business intelligence analytics system that gives event professionals real-time, holistic visibility across every event. Stova is headquartered in Bluffdale. Built within the Stova platform, the suite empowers event professionals to make faster, data-driven decisions with confidence, the company said. The platform’s key features include instant key performance tracking, global engagement mapping, registration trends over time, marketing conversion metrics, event performance analytics and interactive data filters. Planners and marketers get on-demand answers, not just data dumps, empowering them to optimize performance, improve ROI and scale faster and smarter, Stova said. “Event organizers need true visibility. Stova’s Event Intelligence Suite pulls relevant data together into an intuitive and customizable view delivering insights that power event professionals to move faster and smarter,” said Kirk Ziehm, CEO of Stova.
Salt Lake City-based Lender Toolkit, a mortgage automation technology company and creator of the Mortgage Efficiency Cooperative, has announced the launch of its IT Services offering, designed specifically for lenders using ICE Mortgage Technology’s Encompass loan origination platform. In its effort to eliminate inefficiencies and unify disconnected mortgage workflows, the new offering adds a layer of support for independent mortgage banks (IMBs) seeking to improve performance, reduce costs and align their technology with business goals, the company said. “Lenders told us they were tired of juggling disconnected vendors and solving the same problems over and over,” said Brett Brumley, CEO of Lender Toolkit. “We listened. With IT Services, we’re not just solving Encompass challenges; we’re diagnosing the root cause across the entire tech stack. It’s all part of our commitment to being the one partner lenders need to scale efficiently.”