Lane 9 is Australia's scouting and coaching platform for the swimmers outside the system. Rural pools. Regional towns. No coach on deck. We find the talent that shouldn't be there — but is.
The kids in Longreach and Mount Isa and Broome swim just as hard as the kids in Brisbane. They have the lungs, the drive, and often more raw power. What they don't have is a technical coach watching from the wall, a pathway plan that gets updated quarterly, or a scout who drives more than twenty minutes out of town.
The result: a national talent pool shaped less by ability than by postcode. Some of the most natural swimmers in the country never get identified, never get coached, and quietly give the sport away around the age of fifteen.
Lane 9 is the digital net for the talent the current system can't reach.
Scan the QR code on your local council pool, or upload a single 50-metre clip from your phone. The AI runs on your device — no 4G drama, no heavy uploads.
Our AI extracts your stroke biomechanics and generates a Potential Score, a technical report, and a drill library. If the signal is strong, a scout meeting is booked.
Track your Potential Score month to month. Graduate tiers. Get visible to schools, academies, and state pathway bodies — but only if you choose to.
Most swimming scores rank you against the world record. For a fourteen-year-old in Roma, that's a dream-killer dressed up as maths.
Our Potential Score ranks you against the next mountain you can actually climb — your club benchmark, then your regional time, then your state qualifying time, and so on. Each tier has a floor. Bad swims can't take it away. Every length moves the needle.
Time is 45% of it. AI-measured technical efficiency is 35%. Your 90-day improvement trajectory is 20%. A natural with raw power and messy technique lights up on our dashboard just as much as a polished club swimmer — which is exactly the point.
Videos and pose data are stored in Australian data-centre regions. No offshore processing of children's content.
Blue Card–gated access for anyone viewing minor content. Parental consent required for every upload. Pathway visibility is opt-in only.
Our Potential Score methodology is being co-developed with the University of Queensland's Human Movement lab to ensure biomechanical rigour.
Built to support the AIS Future Green + Gold talent search and the Brisbane 2032 regional development commitment.
Lane 9 isn't a faceless algorithm. Every swimmer who clears our AI threshold books an online meeting with Charlie — a real Australian coach who listens before prescribing, and builds a plan around the swimmer's actual goals.
The AI does the biomechanics. The human does the belief. Because no fourteen-year-old in a regional town was ever changed by a dashboard.
Lane 9 opens in beta to a limited cohort of regional Australian swimmers, parents, and coaches. Register your interest and we'll reach out when your region comes online.