Case Study: SKLZ achieves rapid product innovation and elite athlete testing with EXOS

Creating Innovative Products For Athletes

SKLZ partnered with Exos in 2010 to accelerate product innovation by combining SKLZ’s training products with Exos’s human performance expertise. The challenge was gaining consistent, early access to elite athletes and coaches for real-world testing and feedback; Exos used SKLZ products in its facilities while SKLZ tapped Exos for coaching input and instructional content.

Exos embedded coaches and athletes at the SKLZ Carlsbad facility so SKLZ developers could iterate on prototypes, run athlete testing, and refine products quickly. The Exos–SKLZ collaboration produced 25 products, involved 20 athletes in early development (more than 50 in later stages), and saw 76 NFL draft picks train at SKLZ with Exos support, including 18 first-round selections.

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