Made by a timer who has run races for the past 20 years.

From the timing hut to one platform.

I’ve timed ski races for 20 years, mostly in New Zealand. Over that time technology changed everything around us, while race day still ran on the same frustrations. I knew it could be done better.

Timing has always been my winter job, and a love-hate one. I spent years pushing the sport, and timing services in particular, towards the future, and kept running into the same resistance to doing things better, day to day and on event day. I’ve always loved technology and taught myself enough coding and web design to know it could be done much better.

When I sold my adventure company I had no new goal, and my winter job had run out of challenges. I was ready to quit. Then AI changed what one person can build. I could have written much of it myself, but it would have taken years. So I set out to build a small platform just for me, to make race day and entries easier.

I showed the idea at a TD update meeting. The room was excited and full of ideas, so I spent the next six weeks, twelve hours a day, getting a race-ready version for the season. It was a huge success. Some people resisted, as they always do, but those open to it said the same thing across the board: I wish we had this in Europe, or in the US.

We kept developing all season, and by the end of it I went all in. This is where my knowledge and experience give us a real advantage. Now I’m building the best all-in-one event platform there is, and bringing the world into the future of timing.

Arno Marten, founder