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Even the best miss more when it matters most.

The seconds nobody trains you for are the ones that decide it.

You've put in thousands of reps. Then the whole thing comes down to one putt or one serve or one arrow, and the half-minute before it where your heart is going and your head is loud. Almost nobody trains that part of the game. So you turn up on the day and hope it goes your way.

So we're building the thing that does. After a match or competition, we pull your physiology and biomarkers. We compare the patterns from training and competition, and build a routine around what actually works for you. Then we train you to handle the next situation better.

Multi-sport No hardware to start Full release · 1 October 2026
Clutch, the ClutchUp falcon, set and focused the beat before the moment
The window
The last few seconds settle it,
and those are the ones we train.
THE READ · FINAL 5S
Settling ↓
Clutch in tears after coming up short
Lost
The science

At the top, almost nothing separates winning from losing.

The seconds before the moment decide that nothing, and they are the one part you can train.

0.005s
First to second in the Olympic 100m final.
Athletics · Paris 2024
0.01s
An Olympic 100m title, settled on the touchpad.
Swimming · Beijing 2008
30%
Decrease from 92% to 62% when it is score or lose.
Football · Jordet & Hartman 2008
Clutch, holding the cup after coming out on top
Won
01
Readiness
The state you turned up in.

Sleep, training load and morning HRV tell you whether you're in a condition to perform. None of it says anything about the shot itself, so it sits in its own strip rather than getting mixed into the moment.

Reads it HRV trend, sleep, load Phase 2 · capturable today
Later Cortisol and a blood panel, as an optional lab layer Phase 3 · exploring
02
Thirty to sixty seconds before
Where the routine actually lives.

Your routine runs in here: the breath, where the eyes go, the single cue you lock onto. This is the slice we train, and it's the only part of the whole sequence you can change on the day.

Reads it Respiration, HRV reactivity, and what you log yourself Phase 2
Why it matters HRV reactivity is the one biological marker you can train directly, through paced breathing.
03
The final five seconds
The one in-the-moment read that holds up.

A settled athlete's heart rate slows into the shot. It's the change that matters and not a low number, and this is our anchor pre-moment read. True beat-to-beat detail needs a chest strap, because wrist sensors break up under motion, so a watch gives you readiness rather than the raw story.

Reads it Heart-rate deceleration Phase 2 · capturable today
04
The moment
Nothing reads this, and we won't pretend otherwise.

This is the free throw itself, or the penalty, or the last arrow. No wearable sees inside it, and nobody has a validated marker for what happens in there. So we build the window around it, not a score for it.

Reads it Nothing yet. This is the open question the whole product is built around. No validated marker
05
Made or missed
The only hard fact in the sequence.

You mark the outcome and how it felt, in under a minute, while you still remember it. Self-report sits level with the physiology here rather than beneath it, because the research keeps finding that the feeling carries the signal. What we're watching for is calibration, meaning whether your sense of control on the day tracks what actually happened over a run of moments.

Reads it Your own log Live in the beta today
Bring your own device
A chest strap first, then the watch you already wear.

We're not a hardware company. Connect once and the data logs itself, starting with a chest strap because it's the only thing that gives real beat-to-beat detail, then widening to Apple Health, Garmin, Oura, Whoop, Fitbit and Coros. Readiness gets shown as its own strip, kept separate from the moment, so a good night's sleep never gets dressed up as composure.

Polar Works with Apple Health Garmin Oura WHOOP Fitbit COROS
Readiness strip · shown separately Phase 2
Readiness goes in on its own strip, a pre-moment read rides alongside it, and neither one gets sold as reading the shot.
Who it's for

Athletes, coaches and the people who pick the team.

The athlete: The moment should feel like something you've already done.

You can't rehearse pressure by playing more matches, because the moments that count come round a handful of times a season. So we built drills you can run every day at home. Later on we fold your training and match data in beside them, so the picture gets fuller. Give it a few weeks and the moment starts feeling familiar.

The coach: You can see the miss, not the reason for it.

You can guess which of your athletes tighten up at the wrong time, and you've probably told them to relax out there. What you don't have is a way to coach it after practice. You see who holds up when it counts compared with how they train, and now there are numbers behind how you coach those moments.

The administrators: Selection runs on reputation until somebody measures it.

The call on who takes the shot rests on physical data. Directors and performance staff get the same read the coach gets, only across a whole squad. It shows how each athlete performs in matches and training, but nothing that measures who steps up when it matters most. Those margins settle results, and this gives the staff something to look at other than reputation.

In the app today

Tag the moment, then watch the pattern build.

Three moves, all of them in the browser, and you won't need a wearable to begin.

1
Train

Short guided drills build the routine you'll run when it counts, covering your breath, your focus and the one cue you lock onto.

The daily path: Breathe, Sharpen focus, Log a moment, The Hold
2
Track

Tag a moment in under a minute. Rate the pressure and how in control you felt, then the outcome.

Logging a moment: pressure, control and the outcome
3
See the pattern

The more moments you log, the clearer the gap gets between the ones you made and the ones you missed.

Your pattern: how in control you felt, set beside the moments you logged before
The evidence stack

Clutch is a set of skills, not a gift.

So we build the best-evidenced ones first, and here is the order we rank them in.

Archer at full draw, eyes locked on the target
In the app today

Breathing, a focus & cue drill, a screen-based Quiet Eye rehearsal, and The Hold, our Go/No-Go focus game.

01Pre-performance routines
Strongest

You run the same steps every single time, and this is where the evidence runs deepest.

02Pressure training

Rehearse the whole routine while the heat is on, so game day feels familiar.

03Quiet Eye

One long, steady final look before you commit, and it is the simplest thing on this list.

04External focus of attention

Watch the target instead of your own mechanics, and let the body do what it already knows.

05Slow-paced breathing

It is a useful support act, but it is never the headline, whatever the wellness crowd tells you.

What ships, when

Drills ship first and sensors come next, with the analytics and the lab after that.

We release what we can measure honestly, and we hold that order.

Phase 1 LIVE NOW
You train at home and you build the streak.
Drills you run in five minutes: Breathe, Lock the cue, and The Hold, our Go/No-Go focus game
Tag a moment and watch the pattern form out of what you logged
A daily path with streaks to keep you coming back, all of it self-report for now with no wearable needed
The ClutchUp daily path: today's five-minute routine, streak and Clutch points
Phase 2 NEXT
Add the body's own data.
Bring the device you already own: a chest strap first, then the watches below, connected once
Pin the physiology to each moment: HR deceleration, HRV, a separate readiness strip
Sharper tracking for the athlete, and the first real numbers for their coach
Polar WHOOP Works with Apple Health Garmin Oura Fitbit COROS
Phase 3 LATER
Analytics, the lab and AI.
Advanced analytics, and a coach view for the staff deciding who takes the shot
Self-serve cortisol and blood tests, folded in as an optional lab day
AI that reads your made-versus-missed pattern back to you, and shapes the next block of training
Still on the horizon, and still measured honestly.
Full release on 1 October 2026.
The beta is open right now →
Meet the team

Here is who is building it.

Gerald Ng
Gerald Ng
CEO & Co-founder

Building ClutchUp: the training platform for the moments that decide the game.

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Come and train the moment.

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