Independent Governance Documentation

The governance record that existed
before the incident.

APRI Solutions creates immutable, independently held weekly snapshots of athlete welfare governance for professional sport — so when scrutiny arrives, the record already exists.

APRI does not assess performance, predict injury, or provide medical advice. It records that governance processes occurred — and proves it, independently.

£724,983
RFL liability insurance premium rise in a single year, following commencement of concussion litigation
SOURCE: RFL ANNUAL ACCOUNTS
125+
Former rugby league players currently in active group litigation against the RFL, IRL and BARLA
SOURCE: HIGH COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES
$1.6bn
NFL concussion settlement paid to date — the trajectory all contact sport is now on
SOURCE: NFL CONCUSSION SETTLEMENT PROGRAMME

Elite sport is judged in hindsight.
It has no record to defend itself with.

01

The hindsight standard

Courts, regulators, and inquiries reconstruct what "should have been known" using knowledge that only existed after the event. Organisations have no contemporaneous record to counter this.

02

Fragmented evidence

Welfare governance records are scattered across club systems, personal inboxes, and informal notes. Assembling a coherent picture after an incident is slow, incomplete, and suspect.

03

Reconstruction looks like cover-up

Even accurate post-incident accounts carry the appearance of reconstruction. An independent record that predates the incident is the only defence against this inference.

"Sport has performance data. It does not have audit-grade governance records."

APRI SOLUTIONS — THE GOVERNING PRINCIPLE

The fund administrator model,
applied to athlete welfare.

A fund administrator holds records on behalf of regulated funds without assuming operational responsibility. It is a neutral, independent witness to the existence and timing of information — not a participant in decisions.

APRI applies this model to professional sport. Every week, clubs submit governance data. APRI validates, locks, and holds it independently. When scrutiny arrives, the Evidence Pack already exists.

01

Club submits

Clubs submit standardised welfare context data each week via API or web form. Submission is timestamped on receipt.

02

APRI validates

Completeness is checked against a fixed schema. Gaps are documented, never silently omitted — absence is itself an evidential record.

03

Snapshot locked

The dataset is cryptographically hashed, timestamped in UTC, and issued as an immutable snapshot. No party — including APRI — can alter it.

04

Evidence Pack issued

When an incident occurs, APRI compiles a pack from pre-existing records only. No new records are created. No commentary or inference is added.

APRI IS NOT — permanent design choices, each with a legal rationale
A medical device — APRI collects no clinical data and produces no clinical output
A clinical decision support system — it does not score, threshold, or recommend on individual player health
A welfare assessor — it records that processes occurred, not whether they were adequate
Injury prediction — no risk scores, no alerts; context is recorded, not evaluated
A compliance certifier — APRI certifies that records are genuine and unaltered, not that governance was sufficient

Built for three audiences.
Each with a distinct need.

  • Continuous, independent record of welfare governance across every club in your competition — before any incident occurs
  • Evidence Pack available immediately when a regulatory, legal, or media incident arises
  • Demonstrates governance maturity to insurers, with direct implications for premium
  • Positions the league as a governance leader ahead of regulatory change
  • One league licence covers all member clubs — no individual club procurement required
  • Annual pricing: £350,000–£1,000,000 depending on competition size
The governance question every league will be asked

"What did you know, when did you know it, and how do you prove it?"

£724,983
RFL premium increase in one year. That cost is avoidable for leagues with independent governance records in place before litigation commences.
  • For the first time, underwriters can differentiate organisations on independently verified, continuous governance documentation
  • Three years of unbroken APRI records represents a materially different risk profile to an unverified assurance of good governance
  • When a claim is brought against an APRI-documented organisation, the Evidence Pack is available immediately — pre-incident, independently held, cryptographically verified
  • League-wide data, consistently captured, allows underwriters to model risk with unprecedented governance depth
  • APRI is actively seeking advisory relationships and early partnerships with specialist liability underwriters
The underwriting gap APRI closes

"Causation ambiguity and volatility create systemic uncertainty — underwriters cannot differentiate well-governed from poorly-governed organisations."

$1.6bn
NFL concussion settlement paid to date. European contact sport is on the same trajectory. Pre-incident governance documentation changes the liability calculus.
  • Records are held by APRI, not by the club or league — they cannot be altered, withheld, or lost when a dispute arises
  • Player data is pseudonymised — APRI holds a Player ID, not a name; the club retains the reference key
  • Player Rights Summary committed to before commercial deployment, covering access, rectification, and objection rights under Guernsey data protection law
  • Players associations have read-only access to league-level governance records — you can verify that protocols were activated, not merely promised
  • Independent pre-incident records protect players from organisations that claim good governance after the fact
  • Documented governance standards give associations leverage to negotiate binding welfare commitments
The hindsight problem works both ways

"APRI makes governance verifiable, not just claimed. That protects players as much as leagues."

125+
Former players in active litigation. Independent pre-incident records change what can be established — and what can be challenged.

What gets produced
when an incident occurs.

Three levels of pack, each compiled from pre-existing records only. No new records are created. No commentary, interpretation, or inference is added.

LEAGUE ● LOCKED
APRI-EP-SL-2025-R18-L001

League Evidence Pack

Competition-wide governance record. Used by regulators and insurers assessing league-level protocol compliance.

Issued to
Regulatory Affairs / Legal Counsel
Rounds
R16–R18 · 12 clubs · 3 snapshots
Contains
Submission receipts, aggregate incident markers, chain of custody
Status
LOCKED — Immutable
Hash
55b74a90f60073f6549a8a6864d744fb…
CLUB ● LOCKED
APRI-EP-SL-2025-R17-C009

Club Evidence Pack

Club-specific governance record. Used by club legal teams and insurers in personal injury claims.

Issued to
St Helens RLFC — Legal Counsel
Rounds
R15–R17 · Squad availability · Load context
Contains
HIA timestamps, protocol log, 20-player availability record
Status
LOCKED — Immutable
Lead time
34 days before claim received
PLAYER ● LOCKED
APRI-EP-SL-2025-R17-P005

Player Evidence Pack

Individual governance record — pseudonymised. Used in personal injury litigation. Identity key held by club only.

Player ID
APRI-P-SHE-005
HIA init.
04 Jun 2025, 19:34:12 UTC
Contains
4-round timeline, load context, incident markers, hash verification
Status
LOCKED — Immutable
Lead time
34 days before claim received

The jurisdiction is integral to the product proposition.

APRI is domiciled in Guernsey deliberately. The value of APRI's records depends entirely on the credibility of their independence. Guernsey's regulated, internationally respected environment signals exactly that.

Guernsey is a common law jurisdiction closely aligned with English and Australian law — coherent across all three jurisdictions where rugby league operates. It is whitelisted by both the EU and OECD.

Guernsey hosts over 700 insurance entities and is the leading captive domicile in Europe. The English FA established a cell captive in Guernsey through JLT Insurance Management. APRI and sport insurance are already natural partners here.

700+
Insurance entities in Guernsey
#1
Leading captive domicile in Europe
50+
Years as an international finance centre

We're building something new.
We want the right people involved.

APRI Solutions

We are a pre-commercial company in active conversations with leagues, insurers, and legal advisors. We do not have a sales process — we have conversations.

If you are a league CEO, a liability underwriter, a players association director, or a legal professional with a view on the evidence architecture, we want to hear from you.

The window to establish pre-incident records is closing. Current competitions need governance documentation in place before the next wave of claims — not after.

Founder
Tom Eisenhuth
Domicile
Guernsey, Channel Islands
Focus
Rugby league, rugby union, contact sport
Stage
Pre-commercial — founding partner conversations