The Savant Golf Company

Golf's technologists.

This is how we think.
For each individual golfer.

Savant Golf is building a connected intelligence across performance, equipment, competition, simulation, practice, and the rest of your life in the game.

One golfer. One record. One intelligence layer. Many doors.

Rooted in golf. Built from the roots up for the coming age of computational intelligence. Read the full Savant Golf story

Current foundation · active development · next proof

Evidence of Thought.

What exists, what is being built, and what must be validated next.

In development 01

Identity · memory · lifelong intelligence

MyGolfSavant

savantgolf.com/mygolfsavant

MyGolfSavant is being built to remember your golf journey, update with it, and continually improve its ability to serve you throughout a lifetime in the game.

Current foundation

A defined lifelong record spanning identity, goals, equipment, questions, lessons, practice, competition, practitioners, interventions, and outcomes.

Active development

Identity, event, intervention, equipment, practitioner, question, permission, and outcome schemas.

Next proof

A working end-to-end record with consent, deletion, portability, and demonstrated value across time.

Live now 03

Junior competition · identity · development

WJGR / WorldJunior.Golf

wjgr.org

Operating rankings, player profiles, event records, and import workflows form the first live junior doorway into a longer developmental record.

Current foundation

Live rankings and profiles, player accounts, event records, and competition workflows.

Active development

Route reliability, data normalization, broader community functions, and Savant Compass continuity.

Next proof

Live route audit, data governance, family and coach permissions, and program pilots.

Operating now 04

Simulator design · integration · field operation

Clarity.Golf

clarity.golf

A technology-agnostic simulator design and integration company that connects Savant Golf to customers, facilities, devices, installations, and real operating conditions.

Current foundation

Customers, installations, technology relationships, field knowledge, and an operating simulator business.

Active development

A knowledge-first front door, Savant product pilots, and tighter transaction and operating integration.

Next proof

Independent pilots, clean operating perimeter, and completed financial and inventory reconciliation.

Patent-backed development 06

Measurement · launch · accessible to advanced

OpenSwing / Acuity

savantgolf.com/openswing-acuity

One measurement ladder: accessible smartphone capture through OpenSwing, with Acuity extending the same golfer record into professional and bespoke sensing.

Current foundation

A defined commodity-to-dedicated measurement ladder, phone-based capture work, and an issued U.S. event/standard-camera synchronization patent within the underlying architecture.

Active development

Capture standards, multiview evidence, professional configurations, synchronization, calibration, confidence, and shared session contracts.

Next proof

Configuration-specific validation, timing and calibration studies, reference comparison, repeatability, and explicit acceptance thresholds.

Research and development 07

Instrumented ball · MEMS · body-club-ball evidence

Savant Ball

savantgolf.com/savant-ball

A smart-ball registration and evidence doorway designed to connect ball state with the golfer, club, session, and environment inside one continuous record.

Current foundation

A University of Michigan MEMS-related concept, expected golf-field rights subject to documentary confirmation, product architecture, and physical studies.

Active development

Sensor package, power, communications, construction, algorithms, bench testing, data contracts, and a rules and regulatory strategy.

Next proof

Executed rights, a bench prototype, mass and feel studies, durability, spin and launch accuracy, manufacturability, and rules review.

Defined directions 08

Additional product doorways

More ways into the same intelligence.

Couch Coach

savantgolf.com/couch-coach ↗

A conversational second screen for golf viewing, context, rules, history, movement, and entertainment.

Defined product · prototype gate next

Coursecraft / UCG-50

savantgolf.com/coursecraft ↗

Golf gaming, fantasy-course creation, simulation, and a modern continuation of the original UCG lineage.

Specification work · playable vertical slice next

Terra Savant

savantgolf.com/terra-savant ↗

Course imagery, design, visualization, architecture, and environmental context.

Active workflows · repeatable protocol next

Savant Purity / Aero

savantgolf.com/savant-purity ↗

Indoor golf designed as its own medium, with a pure impact screen and proprietary trajectory intelligence.

Active doctrine · rendered scenario next

The architecture beneath the products

The model is a component. The orchestration is the company.

01Domain knowledge

Golf science, coaching, fitting, simulation, competition, rules, history, and operating knowledge.

02Measurement

Body, club, ball, context, behavior, result, and environment.

03Interpretation

Biomechanics, learning, mental performance, equipment logic, and domain state.

04Memory

The individual journey, practitioner model, relationship history, and response to intervention.

05Governance

Source, provenance, confidence, permission, privacy, and current-state controls.

06Doorways

Independent products that solve real problems and deepen the shared intelligence.

Cicero speaks. The BSP remembers. SOMA observes. KINESIS understands. LATTICE presents. MyGolfSavant preserves. RML learns from what happens next.

Active model initiative

Frontier where needed. Local where useful.

Savant is developing a governed mix of frontier systems and local open-weight models, including Mistral- and Gemma-class foundations with proprietary domain weights. The goals are control, privacy, resilience, and materially lower inference cost where the task permits.

See the complete architecture in the full Savant Golf story

The company overall

Seven views of the company, the opportunity, and where it can go.

These frames present the broader company thesis without repeating the Cicero.Golf architecture shown above.

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Persistent athlete intelligence

Savant connects memory, longitudinal learning, biomechanics, trusted recommendations, safety, and continuity in one intelligence layer.

Small by design

The Minds BehindThe Savant Golf Company.

A small accountable human core, specialized golf and academic expertise, and a governed machine workforce.

The future of technology creation is not defined by the largest headcount. It is built through exceptional human judgment, expert knowledge converted into reusable systems, and computational intelligence directed by explicit responsibility and review.

Founder and system architect

Bill Bales

Bill Bales has worked at the edge of golf technology since the original mainframe-era UCG in 1976. His subsequent work spans personal-computer golf, Microsoft Golf, AboutGolf and modern indoor simulation, machine-vision measurement, Clarity.Golf, and the architecture now being assembled as Savant Golf.

His operating role is integration: making performance, fitting, sensing, junior golf, simulation, entertainment, course intelligence, intellectual property, and computational intelligence behave as one company.

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01

Operating core

Joseph Saladino
Capital and growth
Wilson Bales
Chief Operations Officer
Carson Bales
Design and implementation
Eric Kobylinski
Worldwide sales
David Bisbee
Evangelism and Wired2Win
Reagan Bbengo, MFA
UX and product experience

02

Research & Development

Jean Jacques Rivet, MSc
Biomechanics science
Jonathan Page, PhD
PreFlex and pre-movement dynamics
Rob Langenderfer, PhD
Chief Technical Officer
Gregory Slabaugh, PhD
Imaging and artificial intelligence
Eugene Fiume, PhD
Applied sciences and imaging
Ryan McGinnis, PhD
MEMS R&D

03

Computational workforce

Frontier and open-weight systems participate in daily research, design, software development, synthesis, analysis, and quality control. Human judgment retains strategy, ethics, professional interpretation, relationships, accountability, and final decisions.

Systems in the working stack

OpenAIAnthropicGoogle / GemmaMistralLocal modelsOpen-weight models

Proprietary human-machine collaboration

The Savant operating system.

SLiCKEM is the internal working architecture that coordinates knowledge, state, interpretation, dialogue, presentation, governance, memory, learning, and discovery.

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The long form

The Full Savant Golf Story.

The public edition brings the roots, architecture, products, intellectual property, team, and development path together in one continuous interactive story.

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Golfer

Begin with the question that matters to your own golf journey.

Ask Cicero

Facility

Connect Savant intelligence to the places golfers already practice, learn, and play.

Facility inquiry

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The voice of Savant Golf's computational intelligence.

You

What is Savant Golf building?

Cicero

One connected golf intelligence. MyGolfSavant preserves the golfer's record, Cicero.Golf makes it accessible, and each product doorway solves a specific problem.

Preview only. The public version will answer briefly from an approved, closed Savant Golf source collection.

Inquiries

Tell us what brought you here.

Golfer, practitioner, facility, academic collaborator, strategic partner, or press.

Open inquiries

The inquiry route will also include the public Cicero question box and an optional once-monthly update.