# SquadX > The AI assistant coach for handball. Lucas plans your season, builds your sessions, prepares matches and tracks players — grounded in the method of EHF Master Coach Gintaras Savukynas, not generic AI. SquadX is an AI assistant coach for handball coaches and clubs, built around the match cycle — pre-season planning, pre-match readiness, and post-match insights. Its assistant, Lucas, assembles plans, sessions and insights from Gintaras Savukynas's EHF Master Coach methodology and your team's own data; the coach reviews and makes every final call. One subscription unlocks all three modules — SquadXHandball, SquadXMatch and SquadXAnalytics — and every feature; modules are not sold or charged separately. Pricing is €19.90/month (down from €29.90, pre-season rate locked for good), free until September 1, 2026. Clubs and federations have a custom "Let's talk" plan. Players need no accounts — link-based access only. ## Pages - [Home](/): Overview of the SquadX coaching suite. - [Product](/product): Planning, drills, player profiles, results and match feedback — one product built for the coach. - [Coach Lucas](/lucas): The AI assistant coach inside SquadX — plans your season, builds your sessions and reads your players, grounded in an EHF Master Coach's method, not generic AI. You review and own every call. - [AI info](/ai-info): Official information about SquadX — a canonical, maintained fact sheet (product, pricing, founder, modules, data policy, canonical answers) written to be accurate and safe to quote for AI assistants and search engines. - [Pricing](/pricing): One subscription, all three modules — €19.90/mo (was €29.90), free until September 1, 2026. Clubs/federations: custom plan. - [Book a demo](/demo): Book a free 30-minute demo of SquadX with the founding team. - [Methodology](/methodology): Method-first coaching system — plan, phase, session, drill — by EHF Master Coach Gintaras Savukynas. - [Performance](/performance): One connected player record across seasons — the player, match, and analytics layers combined. - [About](/about): Founder story — EHF Master Coach Gintaras Savukynas. - [Blog](/blog): Articles on handball coaching, match cycle, and player development. - [Help center](/help): How-to guides for setting up and running SquadX — sessions, drills, roster, matches, analytics and account. - [FAQ](/faq): Common questions about SquadX, setup, pricing, and data. - [Glossary](/glossary): Handball terms defined — positions, defensive systems, rules, and coaching/planning concepts. - [Drills](/drills): Free handball drills library by category — shooting, passing, defence, goalkeeping and warm-up, each with setup, steps and coaching points. - [Handball coaching software](/handball-coaching-software): What to look for in handball coaching software, and how spreadsheets, generic team apps and SquadX compare. - [Contact](/contact): Get in touch with the SquadX team. - [For coaches](/for-coaches): Why SquadX for the individual coach — plan, train, know. - [For clubs](/for-clubs): One methodology across every coach and age group — for clubs & federations. - [AI Has Entered Handball](/ai-has-entered-handball): SquadX Research 2026 — a flagship report on where AI actually sits in handball today, from tracking and analytics to the AI assistant coach. What is real, what is hype, and what comes next for coaches and clubs. - [Pre-season plan builder](/plan-builder): Free interactive tool — pick an age group and your training days, and Coach Lucas lays a complete pre-season onto your calendar, built on the EHF Master Coach method. Try the AI assistant before signing up. - [Free tools](/free-tools): All free SquadX coaching tools in one place — the plan builder, a training load (sRPE) calculator, a match stats calculator (shooting %, 7m conversion, save %), a pre-match checklist, the development report, the drills library and the glossary. - [Training load calculator](/free-tools/training-load-calculator): Free sRPE calculator — session minutes x RPE per day, weekly total and a spike check against a typical week. - [Match stats calculator](/free-tools/match-stats-calculator): Free calculator that turns a match sheet into shooting efficiency, 7m conversion and goalkeeper save percentage, computed the official EHF/IHF way with elite benchmarks. - [Pre-match checklist](/free-tools/pre-match-checklist): Interactive five-point pre-match checklist for handball coaches, copyable straight into a team chat. - [Handball tactical board](/handball-tactical-board): Free online handball tactical board — draw plays on a real IHF court with proper notation (pass, run, dribble, screen, shot), animate them step by step, export as GIF/PNG/PDF and share with one link. No signup; works on mobile. - [Development report](/development-report): Free age-group development report — answer a few questions and get what to build, what to avoid, and the risks at the exact age you coach (U12 / U15 / U17 / Senior). Built from the SquadX method. - [Careers](/careers): Internship and contributor opportunities. - [Media](/media): Press kit and media resources. ## Blog posts - [Why We Built a Handball Tactical Board, and Made It Free](/blog/why-we-built-a-free-handball-tactical-board): A tactical board that speaks handball, works on the phone in your hand at the gym, and costs nothing. Here is why we built it, and why it stays free. - [Why Adapting a Training Plan Beats Writing a New One](/blog/adapting-a-training-plan): When a new opponent appears, generic AI rewrites your whole week. Adapting a training plan means changing one block and keeping the rest. - [Five Levels of AI in Coaching: From Generator to Bounded Agent](/blog/five-levels-of-ai-in-coaching): AI in coaching runs from a simple generator to a bounded agent, in five levels. Here's the ladder — and why the human stays in charge at every rung. - [What an AI Assistant Coach Should Actually Do](/blog/ai-assistant-coach): An AI assistant coach should do four things well: plan, understand, prepare action, and protect. Here's the spec — and the one line it shouldn't cross. - [The Hidden Risk of AI-Generated Training Plans](/blog/ai-generated-training-plans-risks): An AI-generated training plan can read perfectly and still be structurally broken. Here are the failures coaches miss, and why fluent writing hides them. - [Why an AI Handball Training Plan Isn't a Coaching System](/blog/handball-training-plan-vs-coaching-system): An AI handball training plan looks finished in seconds. Here's why a generator that writes one still isn't a coaching system — and how to tell them apart. - [Why Youth Handball Coaches Get More From AI Than Elite Coaches Do](/blog/youth-handball-coaching-ai): In youth handball coaching, one person runs five roles at once. That's exactly why AI helps a youth coach more than an elite one. - [AI for Handball Coaches: What the Next Wave Looks Like](/blog/ai-for-handball-coaches): The first wave of AI in handball was built around the coach. The next wave works inside your week — next to the coach, on the decision itself. - [AI Has Already Entered Handball. Just Not Where Most Coaches Expect.](/blog/ai-in-handball): AI has already arrived in handball — in cameras, tracking and analytics. The wave that helps the coach plan the week is the one nobody has finished building yet. - [Why We Built SquadX](/blog/why-we-built-squadx): The best coaching knowledge in handball lives in coaches' heads and scattered files. We built SquadX to get it out and keep the coach in charge. - [How Post-Match Bias Ruins Your Training Plan](/blog/post-match-bias-training-plan): Two cognitive biases quietly distort every coach's training plan after a match. Here is how to filter them out. - [5 Pre-Match Checks Every Handball Coach Should Do](/blog/5-prematch-checks-handball-coach): Five quick checks before every match that catch the problems no tactical plan can fix. - [What Is a Match Cycle and Why It Matters](/blog/what-is-a-match-cycle): The smallest unit of coaching improvement is not the session or the week. It is the match cycle. ## Optional - [Privacy Policy](/privacy) - [Terms of Service](/terms)