Independent Governance Documentation · Elite Sport

The governance record that existed before the incident.

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

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$1.6bn
NFL concussion settlement paid to date — the trajectory all collision sport is now on
Source: NFL Concussion Settlement Programme
125+
Former rugby league players in active group litigation against governing bodies
Source: High Court of England and Wales
£724k
RFL liability insurance premium rise in a single year following commencement of concussion litigation
Source: RFL Annual Accounts
Zero
Independently held pre-incident governance records exist in professional sport today
APRI Assessment

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

When a welfare incident occurs in professional sport — rugby league, rugby union, American football, Australian rules, or any collision code — the question every court, regulator, and inquiry asks is the same.

01

The hindsight standard

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

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 legally suspect — even when accurate.

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 credible defence in common law proceedings.

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. APRI applies this model to professional sport governance.

Step 01

Club submits

Clubs submit standardised welfare context data each week via API or web form. Submission is timestamped on receipt. Under five minutes per club.

Step 02

APRI validates

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

Step 03

Snapshot locked

The dataset is cryptographically hashed using SHA-256, timestamped in UTC, and issued as an immutable snapshot. No party — including APRI — can alter it.

Step 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
An injury predictor — no risk scores, no alerts; context is recorded, not evaluated
A compliance certifier — APRI certifies records are genuine and unaltered, not that governance was sufficient
A participant in welfare decisions — APRI records that decisions were made, not what they were

Built for three audiences. Each with a distinct need.

APRI's records serve leagues, insurers, and players associations — each for different reasons, each with a different legal need.

Leagues & Governing Bodies

  • Continuous independent record of welfare governance across every club, before any incident occurs
  • Evidence Pack available immediately when a regulatory, legal, or media incident arises
  • Demonstrates governance maturity to insurers — with direct premium implications
  • One league licence covers all member clubs
  • Positions the competition as a governance leader ahead of regulatory change
£724k RFL premium rise in one year. Independently documented governance changes this calculation.
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Insurers & Underwriters

  • For the first time, underwriters can differentiate organisations on independently verified, continuous governance data
  • Pre-incident records held independently — available immediately when a claim is brought
  • League-wide data, consistently captured, allows underwriters to model risk with genuine depth
  • Cryptographically verified chain of custody — no reconstruction, no bias inference
  • APRI is actively seeking advisory relationships with specialist liability underwriters
$1.6bn NFL concussion settlement. All collision sport codes are on the same trajectory.
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Players Associations

  • Records held by APRI, not the club — cannot be altered, withheld, or lost when a dispute arises
  • Player data is pseudonymised — APRI holds a Player ID only; the club retains the identity reference key
  • Independent pre-incident records protect players from organisations that claim good governance after the fact
  • Data rights governed by Guernsey Data Protection Law 2017 — aligned with UK GDPR
125+ Former players in active litigation. Independent pre-incident records change what can be established.

What gets produced when an incident occurs.

Three levels of pack, compiled from pre-existing records only. No new records are created. No commentary, interpretation, or inference is added. All references below are entirely fictional.

League Evidence Pack

APRI-EP-NSL-2025-R18-L001

Issued toRegulatory Affairs / Legal Counsel
RoundsR16–R18 · 12 clubs · 3 snapshots
ContainsSubmission receipts, incident markers, chain of custody
StatusImmutable

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Illustrative only — all organisations and competition references are fictional

Club Evidence Pack

APRI-EP-NSL-2025-R17-C009

Issued toNorthern Lions RLFC — Legal Counsel
RoundsR15–R17 · Squad availability · Load context
ContainsHIA timestamps, protocol log, 20-player availability record
Lead time34 days before claim received

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Illustrative only — all organisations and competition references are fictional

Player Evidence Pack

APRI-EP-NSL-2025-R17-P005

Player IDAPRI-P-NLI-005
HIA init.04 Jun 2025, 19:34:12 UTC
Contains4-round timeline, load context, incident markers, hash verification
Lead time34 days before claim received

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Illustrative only — all player identifiers and organisations are fictional

The jurisdiction is integral to the product proposition.

APRI is domiciled in Guernsey deliberately. The value of our records depends entirely on the credibility of their independence.

700+
Insurance entities domiciled in Guernsey — the leading captive domicile in Europe
#1
European captive domicile — whitelisted by both the EU and the OECD
50+
Years as an established international finance centre with a regulated, respected environment

Guernsey is a common law jurisdiction closely aligned with English and Australian law — coherent across the jurisdictions where collision sport litigation arises. It hosts over 700 insurance entities and is the primary environment in which funds administration infrastructure has been developed and stress-tested over decades. That infrastructure is the direct conceptual precedent for APRI.

We are building something new. We want the right people involved.

We are in active conversations with leagues, insurers, legal professionals, and players associations across rugby league, rugby union, and other collision codes.

Founder Tom Eisenhuth · Guernsey, Channel Islands
Stage Pre-commercial — founding partner conversations
Seeking
  • League CEOs and General Counsels
  • Specialist liability underwriters
  • Players association directors
  • Legal professionals in sport

We do not have a sales process. We have conversations.

Sports currently in scope

Rugby League Rugby Union American Football Australian Rules Ice Hockey Association Football

WORKING DRAFT — AWAITING LEGAL REVIEW. All evidence pack examples are fictional. No real clubs, leagues or players are referenced. APRI does not assess performance, predict injury, or provide medical advice.