Building an AI That Watches Rugby

Building an AI That Watches Rugby There’s a gap in rugby data. We’ve got the big moments covered — the tries, conversions, and cards. Structured event feeds do a good job of telling you what happened. But they’re not so good at telling you why. At Gainline, we build our entire app around context. We want to give rugby fans a second-screen experience that feels alive — a commentary that goes deeper than the scoreline. We already pull in weather data, team stats, and player profiles. We enrich it with AI-generated summaries. But we’re limited by the data we get. We don’t know why the ref blew the whistle. We can’t tell if a prop is quietly dominating the scrum. We miss what the ref said to the captain. And that’s a problem — because these moments matter when you’re trying to tell the full story of a match. So we asked ourselves a simple question: What if we could watch the game and generate the data ourselves? That led me down a really fun rabbit hole. In this post, I’ll show y ... Read full article.