SquadSpot started on the shooting range, because that's where our founder has spent thirty years. It grew because the same problems turned up everywhere else we looked: car clubs, fishing clubs, sporting clubs, associations. Volunteers running something they love on tools that were never built for the job. We build software around the actual work of running an Australian club, whatever the club is for.
The things we love
Clay over the gully at first light. A tinnie backing down the ramp before the wind gets up. A paddock full of Toranas with their bonnets open. Nippers sprinting the flags before the heat sets in, and a weigh-in filling up as the sun drops. Behind every one of those mornings is a club, and behind every club is a handful of people who put their hand up.
Nobody joins a club to do admin. They join to do this.
They fold because the same three volunteers have been doing the renewals, the rosters and the registry returns for a decade, and nobody's putting their hand up to take over. Everyone's time-poor. The paperwork only grows. And the person holding it all together is usually doing it at the kitchen table at 11pm, long after everyone else has gone home.
You don't have to love software. You love the club. So do we.
The enemy isn't paper, or tradition, or the way things have always been done. It's the hours of unpaid admin quietly burning out the people who keep the gates open.
SquadSpot is Australian-owned, hosted in Australia, and built for the way Australian clubs actually run: state-by-state licensing and registration rules, association affiliations, historic vehicle schemes, competition calendars, and committees that turn over every AGM. We're not a global platform with an Australian price list. We're here, and our clubs are our neighbours.
Generic membership software stops at the member list. SquadSpot picks up where the real work starts: licence and compliance tracking for shooting clubs, historic registration and vehicle records for car clubs, competitions and results for fishing and sporting clubs, and attendance, payments and communications for all of them. One system, built around what your club actually does on a Saturday.
If your committee is running the club on spreadsheets, group chats and a shared inbox, we'd like to show you a better way. Shooting, car, fishing, sailing, motorcycle, archery, or something we haven't met yet: if it's a club with members, events and rules to keep, SquadSpot was built for it. Come and see how Australian clubs are using it.
I'm Justin. I started SquadSpot because I got sick of watching good people burn out running the clubs we all love.
I've been shooting clay targets since I was a kid, and for the last five years I've shot rifle and pistol as well, so I've now sat through three different flavours of club admin. I've done the early starts, the nominations desk, the scoreboard with the marker that's nearly run out, and the drive home wondering who's going to type the results up. My wife and I have spent just as many years around our kids' sporting clubs, and car clubs along the way. Different sports, same story every time: a handful of volunteers, a spreadsheet somebody built in 2014, and a treasurer who'd quite like their weekends back.
The other half of my life has been software, more than twenty years of it, and SquadSpot isn't the first thing I've built. I've seen what works, what doesn't, and what happens to member data when nobody's thought about security properly. Clubs hold licence numbers, addresses and PTAs. That deserves better than a shared login and a laptop in someone's spare room.
SquadSpot is built around the actual work a club does, by someone who's done that work. It started with shooting clubs. It didn't stay there.
Presentation night
Working bee, Saturday morning
