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Two soldiers on patrol, seen from behind, both wearing combat helmets
The Helmet Nobody Checked.Co-equal veteran and athlete labs developing the infrastructure to verify tactical headgear safety.

How it works

Walk onto the field. Keep the company.

Capital Forge League is not a slide deck with a stadium wallpaper. It is a six-person lab, ten weeks of coaching, a live execution stadium, and a certificate — built so veterans and athletes learn venture the way athletes learn a season.

What you actually get

Six-person labTen weeks of coachingA stadiumA certificate

You keep the company. CFL takes no equity.

Tampa, Florida · 501(c)(3) · Capital Forge League has been assigned patents to help prevent CTE

The path

Six steps. No tuition quote at the door. Hours you can actually give — that is the question.

  1. 1

    Join the League

    Fan, athlete, veteran, coach, mentor, or ambassador. Fan is the stadium minimum — the cheap seats that make the noise. We ask how many hours a week you can bring. We do not open with a price tag.

  2. 2

    Sit a six-person lab

    Helmet Nobody Checked (patent pending), BIOMAG, Thermal Suture, Rib Splint — or bring your own project. One unique person per seat. Co-equal founders, not a solo founder with five spectators.

  3. 3

    Register, then walk the stadium

    Nobody enters without a roster seat. Ten seconds of tunnel video. The photograph stays cinematic — hang tags off the hero. Open Player view when you want the names.

  4. 4

    Move the ball

    Verified work earns Business Performance Points. Coaches score seats 0–100 for Game Day readiness — not a GPA, not a valuation. That is the scoring. Rankings stay educational.

  5. 5

    Game Day

    Six present what they actually filed. Education product only. No equity grab at the finish line. CFL takes nothing off the cap table.

  6. 6

    Optional Formation Weekend

    Florida capital-formation class for teams ready to go deeper. We teach the stack. We do not introduce investors. You keep the company.

Not just networking. Real infrastructure.

Capital Forge League looks like a world-class online accelerator, because the curriculum, the cohorts and the capital pathway are built to that standard. It is also a great deal more than an accelerator online, and more than a building with a Zoom login.

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More than a workspace. More than a program fee.

If you want a cheap desk, we can help you find space. That is table stakes. What an accelerator or an incubator cannot casually arrange is the rest of it: veteran and athlete teams on co-equal seats, NIL and capital literacy, a season-long stadium competition, and real fans and real votes — at 0% equity taken.

  • Accelerator machinery, without pretending a workspace is the product.
  • An execution stadium, not a pitch night in costume.
  • You keep the company. Rankings are educational, not investment advice.

League Rules & Scoring

How the league is scored

The stadium is only the picture. A filed brief. A lab note. A donor thank-you. A Game Day deck. Verified work earns Business Performance Points. Coach scores seats 0–100 for Game Day readiness — not a GPA. Rankings are educational.

  1. 1One point is one point. BPP is the single scoring engine. The sport you choose changes the picture, never the value.
  2. 2Work earns points. Votes don't buy them. Filed briefs, lab notes, uploads, and presentations move the ball. Votes are cheers, not currency.
  3. 3Round multipliers apply the same way everywhere. Sweet 16 1.0x · Elite 8 1.25x · Final Four 1.5x · Championship 2.0x — same multiplier, every stadium.
  4. 4Coach scores readiness, not the company. The 0–100 score is Game Day readiness only — not a GPA, not a valuation, not an offering.
  5. 5Rankings are educational. Not investment advice. Not an offering of securities.

One score, many stadiums

The same points, drawn differently in each stadium

Every piece of verified work earns the same Business Performance Points (BPP), whichever stadium a team plays in. The stadium only changes how that progress is shown on the field. A donor meeting, for example, is worth 10 points: that is 10 yards in football, a shot on goal in hockey, and 15 miles at the Speedway. Here is how each stadium counts progress.

Football10 yards on the field
BasketballOne possession
HockeyOne puck-length of zone pressure
SpeedwayCar lengths / positions

Points count for more later in the season

The deeper a team goes, the more each point is worth. The rules for earning points never change.

Sweet 16 1.00×Elite 8 1.25×Final Four 1.50×Championship 2.00×

Money never moves the ball

Auction bids, gifts and NIL pay earn 0 points. Only work moves a team forward. Asking for a team's information packet (16 points) and bringing its Capstone live (32 points) are two separate events, each counted once.

See every event in every stadium →

Three ways a team moves the ball

Every yard is earned by work a coach can see. These are the three kinds of it.

Momentum

Views, follows, daily notes, organic votes. Did the six actually ship this week?

Execution

Decks, document uploads, Game Day readiness. Operational discipline on the surface — where coaches can see it.

Conversion

Votes, donors, sponsors. Votes are cheers — not financial endorsements. Donors fund the educational ecosystem; they do not buy yards. Restricted gifts stay restricted.

Partner with a career and technical school

Capital Forge League works with career and technical schools across the United States — the ones that teach a trade or a technical field alongside the classroom. No single university is the home campus. The curriculum is open to any enrolled student: product, customers, money and leadership, taught the way a team prepares for game day.

What a school hosts

A six-person lab. Ten weeks of coaching. A stadium walk. Game Day. A certificate at the end. Student teams join the work — they never take the patent, and you keep the company you build.

Who sits in the seats

A teacher from the school takes the coach's or instructor's seat. Veterans and athletes make up the founding six. Students join as team members. Mentors come from the trades and from sport. Fan is the stadium minimum, open to anyone.

What CFL never does

We never take equity in what a team builds. We never introduce investors. We never sell a franchise to a school. Game Day rankings are educational — not investment advice, and not an offering of securities.

Rankings are educational. Not investment advice. Not an offering of securities.