NIL Wire
ComplianceNIL Go clears roughly half of submitted deals within 24 hoursMarketThird-party NIL submissions pass $166.5M in reviewed valueFootballCollectives shift toward multi-year, deliverable-based agreementsBasketballPrograms add NIL literacy sessions to preseason onboardingComplianceAssociated-entity deals still drive the longest review delaysTrack & FieldOlympic-sport athletes lean on niche brand categories for dealsSoccerLocal-business NIL deals stay the most common first contractMarketRevenue sharing cap rises about 4% year over year under the settlementComplianceNIL Go clears roughly half of submitted deals within 24 hoursMarketThird-party NIL submissions pass $166.5M in reviewed valueFootballCollectives shift toward multi-year, deliverable-based agreementsBasketballPrograms add NIL literacy sessions to preseason onboardingComplianceAssociated-entity deals still drive the longest review delaysTrack & FieldOlympic-sport athletes lean on niche brand categories for dealsSoccerLocal-business NIL deals stay the most common first contractMarketRevenue sharing cap rises about 4% year over year under the settlement
All Sports

Football

Riverbend State

at Cascade Tech

Sat 12:00 ET · Demo Network

Football

Northfield A&M

at Gulf Coast U

Sat 3:30 ET · Demo Network 2

Soccer

Lakeshore U

at Pinehill College

Fri 7:00 ET · Campus Stream

Volleyball

Grandview State

at Ironwood U

Fri 6:00 ET · Campus Stream

Golf

Fall Invitational

at Harbor Links

Mon 8:00 ET · Live scoring

Basketball

Out of season

Season tips off early November

Baseball

Out of season

Season opens mid-February

Track & Field

Out of season

Indoor season opens December

Swimming

Out of season

Dual meets begin late October

Tennis

Out of season

Spring dual season begins January

Gymnastics

Out of season

Season opens early January

The open forum for NIL

Your name is worth something. Know what to do with it.

Hypeness is the open community for NIL. Upload your videos, photos, and stats to build an EPK, keep up with NIL news as it happens, and ask our AI chat bot anything you're not sure about.

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$4.5B

Total NIL market in 2026, and growing fast.

Why Hypeness exists

NIL moves fast. Most people figure it out alone.

Name, Image and Likeness changed overnight, and the rules keep changing with it. Most athletes are navigating disclosure, boosters, and deal terms with no agent, no compliance office looking out for just them, and no easy way to see what other athletes in the same spot are doing. Hypeness is built as an open forum for that: a place to upload the video and photos that become your EPK, keep up with NIL news as it actually happens, and ask an AI chat bot the question you don't want to ask out loud yet.

How Hypeness is different

Everyone else picked a lane. We didn't.

Most NIL tools pick a side and stay there: a marketplace that gets brands to you, a compliance system that protects your school, or a score that ranks you for someone else to see. None of them are built to help you actually get the deal right.

Brand marketplaces

Built to get brands to athletes fast: discovery, matching, payout. Compliance and deal safety aren't really the job.

School compliance tools

Built to protect the school's eligibility exposure. You fill out the disclosure form; nobody's checking whether the deal itself is good for you.

Visibility scores

Built to rank you for a recruiter or brand to look at. The number doesn't do anything for you once you have it.

Hypeness

Built for the person actually signing the deal. NIL literacy, deal-finding, contract protection, and a real community — in the same place.

What it does

Build it. Protect it. Keep up with it.

Build your EPK

Upload & Build

  • Upload videos & photos

    Highlights, game film, and stats become the raw material for your EPK.

  • EPK Builder

    Turns what you upload into a one-page kit brands can actually evaluate.

  • AI Chat Bot

    Answers NIL questions in plain language, any time.

Upload & build my EPK

Protect the deal

Find It & Check It

  • Deal Finder

    Suggests brand categories worth pitching based on your sport and interests, and drafts a tone-adjustable outreach message.

  • Contract Reviewer

    Gives offer text a plain-language first pass, flagging retention clauses, missing termination terms, and open-ended image rights before you sign.

  • Built for you

    Built to look out for you specifically, not just your school's compliance exposure.

Try the Deal Finder

Stay in the loop

News & Community

  • NIL News

    Tracks rule changes, market shifts, and real deals as they happen.

  • Community Forum

    Where you ask questions and see how other people are handling the same thing.

  • Open to everyone

    Athletes, coaches, parents, and anyone else following NIL.

Ask Hypeness

The question you don't want to ask out loud yet.

This is a real AI chat bot, not a scripted FAQ. Every answer is grounded in a maintained NIL knowledge base — disclosure thresholds, NIL Go, booster rules, revenue sharing, 1099s — and it says so plainly when the knowledge base doesn't cover something instead of guessing.

hypeness.app / askHypeness Chat Bot is live
A booster wants to pay me $1,800 for two posts. Do I need to report it?
Yes. Anything from an associated entity above $600 needs to go through NIL Go, and it needs a real business purpose behind it, not just a payment.

Educational information, not legal advice. Verify anything binding with your compliance office or an attorney.

Compare / Hype Index

Build your profile. See where you stand.

Performing well used to be the whole job. Now you're also expected to build a following, communicate like a pro, and prove your value to coaches and brands — usually with no single place to manage any of it. Your Hypeness profile pulls your stats, EPK, audience, and NIL activity into one score, so you can see exactly where you stand against other athletes in your sport instead of guessing.

RankAthleteHype Index
1Athlete A-1494.2
2Athlete B-0791.8
3Athlete C-2289.5
4Athlete D-3187.1
5Athlete E-0984.6
6You (demo)72.4
7Athlete F-1871.9
8Athlete G-0569.3

Your Hype Index

Performance78

Stats, results, and season trend

Audience & Reach64

Followers, engagement, growth rate

NIL Activity71

Deals disclosed, categories, repeat partners

Pro Readiness76

Media, communication, EPK completeness

Demo data — illustrative only. Your real profile pulls from your actual EPK, stats, and connected social accounts, not sample numbers.

Set up my profile

Focus areas

What we're actually focused on

NIL rules & disclosure

Explained plainly — including what a 1099 actually means once money starts moving.

EPK & media uploads

Video, photos, and stats in one place, turned into a kit a brand can evaluate.

NIL news & trends

Rule changes, market shifts, and real deals, tagged by sport and category.

Community & forum

Athletes, coaches, and parents comparing notes on the same questions.

Trust & verification — on the roadmap

How verification is meant to work

None of this is shipped yet. It's the standard we're building toward, written down so you can hold us to it.

Verified accounts

School email or roster match before an EPK can be shared outside the community.

Clear disclosure

Sport, school, and eligibility shown in plain view on every EPK.

Human-checked, AI-assisted

A real review step between anything athletes upload and anything a brand sees.

You control what's shared

Uploads stay private until the athlete chooses to share them.

For schools & compliance

One dashboard, not five spreadsheets.

Compliance offices are stuck tracking disclosures across group texts, shared drives, and whatever the collective sends over. Hypeness gives one roster-wide view instead — built with NCAA disclosure requirements and FERPA in mind from day one.

hypeness.app / complianceMock dashboard
AthleteLatest dealStatus
Athlete A-14Local auto group · $2,400Cleared
Athlete D-31Apparel brand · $750Pending review
Athlete C-22Collective · $1,900Flagged
Athlete E-09Nutrition brand · $600Pending review
Athlete F-18Camp appearance · $1,100Cleared
Export disclosure logOpen policy libraryMessage flagged athlete

Team Compliance

One live view of every disclosed deal.

Roster & Disclosures

Tracks deal history and status per athlete.

Flagged Deals

Surfaces anything needing a second look — missing terms, retention clauses, deals near the $600 threshold.

Policy Library

Keeps the institution's own NIL policy next to current NCAA and state rules.

This is still early — school dashboards are in development, alongside verification and the brand marketplace. Talk to us and we'll bring you in as it's ready.

Prototype note: this saves your name, organization, email, and role to the Hypeness backend so the team can reply. Nothing is shared with third parties or shown publicly. Email us to have it deleted.

For brands

Skip the cold outreach.

Right now, finding athletes to work with means DMs, agents, and guesswork. Hypeness is building a marketplace side to the same community: verified EPKs, organized by sport and school, with the stats and media a brand actually needs to say yes.

Browse verified EPKs

Instead of cold-messaging.

Post a deal

And let interested athletes come to you.

Compliance up front

See disclosure and compliance basics before the deal's already moving.

Posting is free — you only pay when a deal actually closes (10% per deal, or a flat monthly rate if you're running a lot of them). Payment and contracting will run through the platform directly once that side is live.

Prototype note: this saves your name, organization, email, and role to the Hypeness backend so the team can reply. Nothing is shared with third parties or shown publicly. Email us to have it deleted.

For agents & agencies

Represent your roster in one place.

Manage every client's EPK from one dashboard, track deals as they move from a brand's first message to a signed deal, and get verified so athletes and brands both know you're the real thing. A growing number of states require NIL agents to register before representing student-athletes for pay — Hypeness checks that before issuing the badge.

hypeness.app / agentMock pipeline
ClientDealStage
Client 01Regional bank campaignSigned
Client 02QSR social packageIn review
Client 03Athleisure seedingNew lead
Client 04Recovery productIn review

What “Verified” means here

We check your state's NIL agent registration where one's required, confirm you're who you say you are, and review it by hand — not just a checkbox on a signup form.

Roster-wide EPKs

Every client's kit in one dashboard.

Deal tracking

Across clients, from first message to signed.

Verified agent badge

Hand-reviewed, registration-checked.

Early access

First look at brand postings.

Pricing

Free for athletes. Paid when it pays off.

Most requested

Athletes

Individual athletes & coaches

Free

always

  • /EPK builder & uploads
  • /AI chat bot for NIL questions
  • /NIL news & community forum
  • /Verified profile
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Schools & Programs

Athletic departments & compliance staff

Custom

subscription

  • /Roster-wide EPK & compliance dashboard
  • /Disclosure tracking across athletes
  • /Priority support & onboarding
  • /Everything in Athletes
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Brands

Brands & scouts

10% per deal

or $199/mo unlimited

  • /Browse verified EPKs by sport & school
  • /Post deals directly to the community
  • /Compliance basics on every profile
  • /No cost to post — fee only applies when a deal closes
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Agents & Agencies

Talent reps & agencies

Subscription

+ success fee

  • /Manage full roster in one dashboard
  • /Deal tracking across every client
  • /Verified agent badge
  • /Early access to brand postings
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