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Mark Cipolla

Run your academy, not your spreadsheets — a gym management platform built for jiu-jitsu academies.

grappl.club

grappl.club
grappl.club dashboard

grappl.club helps jiu-jitsu gym owners and academy managers get out of spreadsheets and back onto the mats. It's focused on tracking student progression: owners plan out what they'll teach according to their syllabus, and when students check in, grappl.club marks off the techniques they've seen.

The grappl.club kiosk showing today's four classes with a live checked-in count against each.
The kiosk on the iPad by the door.
The kiosk class roster: students checked in on the left with their belt and stripes, a searchable tap-to-check-in list on the right.
Students tap their name to check in.

Planning tools let instructors map lessons to their syllabus ahead of time, so every class is accounted for. An iPad kiosk at the front desk handles member check-in, and as students sign in it automatically records the techniques covered in that session against their progress — giving owners a clear picture of what each student has been exposed to over time, alongside attendance, belt progression and class scheduling.

The teaching topics calendar: a month view with a lesson topic, such as half guard, side control escapes or closed guard, running across each week.
Plan the month's topics; every class on the timetable picks them up.
A student profile showing a belt history from white in 2017 to black in 2024, a signed waiver and a year-long attendance heatmap.
Each student's promotions, attendance and waivers in one place.
The admin dashboard: active student count, check-ins this week, today's classes and recent waivers.
The admin dashboard.

grappl.club is in early access, onboarding interested academies ahead of a wider launch.

Mark lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia, and acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which he lives, paying respects to elders past and present, recognising the resilience, strength and pride of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.