10 · THE PERSON
Player due diligence

The person behind the player.

Performance data shows what a player does. Medical shows what their body can do. Inside Left gives you evidence on who is doing it: how they handle pressure, criticism, competition and a new country, from a voice-led interview, a personality questionnaire and genetics, before you make the investment.

NewGenetics, with 280 profiles to choose from →
Performance data
What they do
Medical
What their body can do
Inside Left
Who is doing it
30–45minute voice-led conversation, no app needed
13football situations, probed from several angles
280genetic profiles, or the player's own DNA
6languages now, more coming
Every quotetraced back to what the player actually said
Signedby a named person at your club, before you pay

Three moves. You stay in control.

The club starts it. The player talks. Your staff read the evidence and decide.

01

Scout opens a case

Describe the environment they'd move into: coaching style, culture, language, role. Add genetics: 280 profiles to choose from, or the player's own DNA. Then start right there on your device, with the player in the room, or mail them a private link.

In the room or by link · Genetics optional
02

The player talks

A 30–45 minute conversation in English, Danish, Spanish, German, French or Portuguese (Italian, Dutch and the other Scandinavian languages are coming), with an AI interviewer that listens like an experienced sport psychologist: real football situations, a published personality scale, and follow-up questions shaped by what the player says.

Voice · scales · scenarios · more languages coming
03

Evidence, not verdicts

Separate specialists analyse the conversation and the questionnaire. Every finding is checked against the player's own words, reviewed independently, and signed off by someone at your club.

No fit score. Ever.

Three kinds of evidence. Never blended.

Each kind of evidence keeps its own voice in the report — so you always know how strong a finding is and where it came from.

Personality

A short, published Big Five questionnaire, scored automatically from the player's own answers, with its limits stated.

Football behaviour

Bench, red card, new coach, dressing-room conflict — scenarios probed from several directions, with contradictions surfaced.

Genetics Optional

One published stress-sensitivity score, from 280 genetic profiles or the player's own DNA, with the variants a chip misses filled in. Shown on its own, with its limits. See how →

Player report · exampleQC ✓ · Signed off

Coachability

“I'd ask him what he needs from me to get back in — then I'd do it in training, not talk about it.”
AlignmentResponds to direct, task-focused feedback — matches the head coach's style.Beh · T14, T31
InvestigateDescribes criticism in front of the group as hard to take; no concrete example yet. Ask about it.Beh · T18, T19
SupportFirst month: a Spanish-speaking senior as a reference point in the squad.Beh · T22

T14 = turn 14 of the interview. In a real report, every reference opens the player's own words in context.

What sets Inside Left apart

Genetics, done properly.

A third layer of evidence beside the interview and the questionnaire. Only one trait has a published, well-powered genetic score: how easily someone gets upset under stress. Inside Left computes that one, fills in what a DNA chip misses, shows it on its own with its limits, and never lets it outweigh what the player says.

The normal way

Choose from 280 genetic profiles

Synthetic genomes, 35 for each of eight origins, from lower to higher than average. The player's likely origin is suggested from their nationality, and the report shows it at lower, around and higher side by side, so you see how little genetics would move the picture. Never picked from the interview, never the player's data, and marked everywhere: not the player's DNA.

The exception

The player's own DNA file

The file they already have from 23andMe, AncestryDNA or MyHeritage, with their own, separate consent. Read in memory, scored, and not kept.

After the legal review

A lab kit

You order the kit; the case tracks it. The interview goes ahead meanwhile, and the report waits until you upload the lab's result.

North-west European
Nordic (Finnish)
Southern European (Iberian, Italian)
West African
East African
Latin American
East Asian
South Asian
loweraround averagehigher
  1. ReadA consumer DNA chip reads about 600,000 markers, but only a fifth of the score.
  2. Fill inThe missing variants are imputed inside our own engine, from a public reference panel (1000 Genomes). Nothing goes to an outside service.
  3. ScoreOne published score (PGS Catalog PGS001996), fixed formulas, never AI.
  4. Say its limitsA coarse band, never a percentile; a few percent of the differences between people; weaker outside European ancestry. It never outweighs what the player says.
0.98agreement between our filled-in score and the true complete score (European reference people held out of our panel; 0.48 from the chip alone)
0language models that ever see DNA
0DNA files kept after scoring
Method and validation →

How we play.

Evidence, not a score

Areas of alignment, areas to investigate, support considerations. The decision stays with your staff.

Humans sign off

An independent check on every report, and a named person at the club signs it off. For young players and flagged cases, the responsible person first confirms the reasons for a careful review.

Genetics, only where it's sound

Optional, and only the one trait the science supports. Raw DNA never touches a language model, never sits with the player's name, and isn't kept.

The player knows

Who sees what, for what purpose, for how long — and how to challenge or delete it.

Listening · 18 of ~40 min

“You've started every match for two months. Before a big game, the coach tells you you're on the bench. What's the first thing you feel?”

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What the player sees

Calm, private, in their language.

No account and no app. The player talks with a calm voice and answers by voice or with a tap, on your tablet in the room or on their own phone at home.

  • Every question is read aloud; choices and scales can be answered by voice or by tap.
  • The interviewer really listens: it asks for real examples and follows up on what matters, so every player is heard properly.
  • They can pause and come back. Nobody watches live, and nothing is filmed.
  • What they say is kept only as encrypted text: the voice is never stored, and nothing reads emotions from voice or face.
  • If a player says something that needs a person, the conversation pauses kindly, and stays paused until someone at the club has checked in.
  • Before anything starts, they see who receives what. For under-18s, a parent or guardian agrees first.
How you pay

Pay per player. Only when it's signed.

  • Tokens, bought in packs when you need them: no subscription and no automatic top-up.
  • Set aside when the player agrees to start; charged only when your responsible person signs off the report. A case that never starts costs nothing.
  • Genetics is one add-on, whichever source you choose.
  • A new club starts with one full assessment included.

Ready when your scouts are.

Club staff sign in with a passkey or a password. New club? Ask for access and we'll set you up with one full assessment.