A father with a background in education and a daughter going through college recruiting. We discovered problems with every platform we tried — and built something better from scratch.
Read Our Story ↓Before Set Point, Jeremy Kane spent over a decade building and leading a network of six high-performing public charter schools in Nashville. Those schools had one goal: make sure every single student — regardless of zip code, income, or circumstances — graduated high school and got accepted to college. Every graduating class. No exceptions.
They hit that goal. 100% graduation. 100% college acceptance. Not because the students were exceptional to begin with — many faced serious obstacles — but because the adults in the room took that commitment seriously and built systems that gave every student what they actually needed.
When Jeremy's daughter Wells started her volleyball career and it became clear that college was a real possibility, he brought that same lens to the recruiting process. What he found was almost the opposite of what he'd built in education: an industry designed to extract money from families, not to genuinely help them.
"In education, we never asked families to pay more to give their kid a fair shot. That principle doesn't stop being true just because there's a volleyball involved."
The high price of existing platforms was obvious. The feature gaps for volleyball were obvious. But as Jeremy and Wells dug deeper a more troubling picture emerged.
Most recruiting platforms treat athlete profiles as their product, not their customer. Athletes upload their academic records, physical measurements, family contact information, and game footage — and that data becomes an asset the platform monetizes. Coaches pay to access it. Third parties get exposure to it. Companies monetize it. Families have little visibility into who sees what, or how long that information is retained.
We found platforms where: athlete profiles remained publicly searchable after families canceled. Contact information for minors was accessible without coach verification. There was no meaningful way for a family to know who had viewed their child's profile, or to delete data they'd uploaded. Terms of service explicitly reserved the right to use athlete data for advertising and third-party partnerships.
These are minors. High schoolers. The same protections we'd fight for in a school context — privacy, family control, transparency about who has access to a child's information — weren't being applied here. That had to change.
As a former D1 scholarship swimmer who went through the recruiting process, Jeremy knew that you can't separate the athletic journey from the academic and career one. They're the same journey. A student-athlete who doesn't understand NCAA eligibility requirements, who hasn't thought seriously about academic fit alongside athletic fit, who has no framework for exploring careers beyond the sport — that athlete is less prepared for college, not more.
Existing platforms treat recruiting as a marketing problem. Get the athlete visible. Get them in front of coaches. Sell the exposure. But visibility without readiness isn't a service — it's just noise. The athlete who can't afford four years at a school with no financial aid isn't better off for having been "discovered." The athlete who commits to a program that doesn't match their academic needs may not graduate.
Set Point was designed from the start to address the whole picture. Academic fit. Financial aid. NCAA eligibility tracking. Career exploration tied to college major selection. The tools an athlete and family actually need to make a good decision — not just the tools that make the platform look impressive in a sales deck.
Set Point isn't venture-backed. There are no investor expectations that we chase growth at the expense of the families we serve, that we monetize athlete data to generate revenue, or that we build features designed to create dependency rather than genuine value.
Set Point is built for families by our family. Wells isn't just a co-founder in name — she's actively going through the recruiting process, using every feature, and shaping every build decision from the athlete's seat. If it doesn't work for her, it doesn't ship. Tracy, Wells' mom, is our attorney and privacy specialist. Her sister, Luella, helps with marketing and outreach. And Jeremy designs and builds the platform based on Wells' input.
To make every feature work for families and athletes, we work with volleyball families, club coaches, college coaches, and educators who tell us what they actually need.
Every design decision comes back to one question: does this genuinely help the athlete and their family? The pricing is less than a single tournament entry fee — because families shouldn't have to choose between their kid's recruiting tools and their grocery bill.
Former Division I swimmer and national champion, Jeremy spent over a decade as a public charter school founder and educator — building a network of schools that achieved 100% high school graduation and 100% college acceptance. He brings that same commitment to Set Point: every athlete and family deserves the tools, the information, and the support to make the best possible decision.
Wells is a college volleyball recruit actively going through the exact process Set Point was built to support. As a co-founder, she shapes every feature from the athlete's perspective — not from a focus group or a product spec, but from real lived experience. If a feature doesn't help her navigate recruiting, academics, and the college decision with more clarity and less stress, it doesn't make the cut. Her voice keeps the platform honest.
College recruiting is a college readiness problem. Academic fit, financial aid, career exploration, and eligibility tracking are built into the platform from the start — not bolted on.
Athlete data belongs to the athlete and their family — not to the platform. We never sell profile data, never expose minors to unverified contacts, and give families full visibility and control.
Every feature is built specifically for how volleyball recruiting actually works. Not retrofitted from a generic multi-sport template where volleyball is an afterthought.
$7.99/month for full access. Less than a tournament entry fee. No predatory upsells, no tiered data visibility that rewards wealthy families, no hidden fees. Ever.
Parents see what their athlete sees. Permissions, privacy settings, and communication visibility are designed around the family — not around maximizing platform engagement.
Set Point is built for the families it serves, not for a board expecting growth at any cost. Every decision gets made against one standard: does this genuinely help athletes and families?
Join the volleyball families building this with us — and getting the recruiting and college readiness tools they deserve.