UpNext Signature
Replace the estimate.
The problem
The people who know the real numbers are left out of the conversation.
The agent's number
The only figure on the table comes from the person on the other side of it.
The reported number
Public estimates are estimates. Nobody publishing them was in the room.
The comp sheet
Built in a spreadsheet from what a staff could piece together, and stale the day it was made.
The number you have to defend
Tens of millions allocated against figures nobody can source.
“We don’t always know why we’re writing the checks we write.”
They see one data point.
The athlete is the least informed person at their own negotiation. They know their offer. Nobody shows them the market.
Everyone else has an estimate.
Their figures get reported, argued over, and used as leverage.
Income can disappear with a single snap.
Everything an athlete earns is contingent on the depth chart.
Every figure in this market is an estimate made by someone who was not in the room. There is no record of what was actually agreed.
What programs get
Power 4 programs allocate $25 to $70 million a year against this market. Signature is the benchmark they license to do it with evidence instead of estimates.
The market
Know the market before you make the offer.
Observed compensation across the national cohort, structured by position, tier, conference, and eligibility. Ranges, not guesses. Versioned methodology, updated as new data enters the network.
Your roster
See the full compensation picture, not one line of it.
Your roster mapped against observed cohort ranges, with the split between the channels you run and the ones you do not.
The watchlist
Watch the market move.
Portal and roster movement across the cohorts you follow, read against the same observed ranges.
What it will not do
The product shows you the market. It does not set the number.
Signature reports observed ranges for a position, tier, and profile. There is no drill-down to an individual athlete’s compensation, and no recommended figure for any player. Compensation data reaches subscribers in aggregate. Where a specific athlete sits inside the band is a judgment the program makes.
The athlete side
Athletes are the experts.
Athletes are first-party participants in every negotiation in this market. They hold information that exists nowhere else, and until now no one has treated it as worth anything.
Signature runs on the expert network model. UpNext works directly with athletes across football and men’s basketball and compensates them for the market intelligence they provide. What is paid for is information delivered.
Selection and terms are determined by UpNext, set by where the record needs coverage.
All data and insights are confidential, aggregated, and anonymized.
The network was already built.
300+ programs already run sourcing, verification, and tracking on UpNext. The same staffs making portal and roster decisions.
140,000+ athletes hold verified profiles on the network. Signature contracts the athletes at the center of the most complex compensation decisions in it.
30+ certified agencies operate on the network, with representation confirmed at the source. Their clients are the same athletes.
Three sides of one network. Signature is the fourth signal.
Side by side
The estimate, and the record.
Signature is where an allocation decision gets a basis.
How it starts
Three phases.
Full documentation and methodology, on your timeline.
A live walkthrough of the record and the methodology behind it, by position, tier and conference.
Agreement, provisioning, integration, onboarding.
Every program licenses the same benchmark on the same terms. One methodology, one agreement structure.
Signature is by request. We move at whatever pace fits your process.