Built into the helmet, not stuck on

A helmet that

can say what

it just took.

A helmet takes the hit. It can't tell anyone how hard. So players keep playing and workers keep working with an injury nobody saw.

Wearer#24 · baseline set

Linear63 g

Rotational4,180 rad/s²

LocationLeft temporal

vs. their normal+218%

Outside normal range · recommend sideline check

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The problem

The danger isn't the hit. It's the one nobody noticed.

A helmet protects the skull. It can't stop the brain moving inside it. And it can't tell a coach, a parent or a foreman that this hit was different from the last two hundred.

kids and teens get a brain injury playing sports in the US every year

CDC

of US high school students say they've had a concussion from sports. 6% have had two or more

CDC · Youth Risk Behavior Survey

of construction deaths are brain injuries. No other US industry is higher

CDC · NIOSH

Sport

Two hundred contacts a season. One of them is different.

A fixed limit can't tell them apart. A system that has learned this one player can. And the other 199 hits don't send anyone to the medical tent.

How it works

It learns one person's normal. Then it watches for what isn't.

A lineman takes forty hits a practice. A cyclist takes none. A number that means nothing for one is an emergency for the other.

01 · MEASURE

Every hit, four ways

How hard, how much it twisted, where on the head, and for how long. The twist matters most. It does more damage than a straight hit.

02 · LEARN

Learn what's normal

Over a session it learns what a normal hit looks like for this one person, in this sport or this job.

03 · FLAG

Flag the odd one

When a hit is outside that range, or small hits pile up, it alerts the phone or the sideline tablet in seconds.

Live baseline · try it 0 impacts recorded

Within normal range Outside normal range Learned baseline

Record a few normal hits and it learns what's normal for this player. Then try a hard one.

What the coach sees

One screen. Who to pull, who to watch, who's fine.

Every player against their own normal. The two who need eyes are at the top. The six who are fine stay on the field. No pointless tent visit, no wasted injury timeout.

East Islip Varsity · vs Bay Shore

Q3 · 08:14 · 22 helmets live

Check out now · 2sorted by risk

M. Delgado · LB

63 g · 4,180 rad/s² · +218% vs his normal · 0:41 ago

Pull now · medical check

T. Brennan · OL

3 hits over baseline in 6 min · +74% · accumulating

Check at next stoppage

Player	Hits	Last hit	vs. their normal	Status
M. Delgado #24 LB	18	63 g	+218%	Critical · pull
T. Brennan #55 OL	31	41 g	+74%	High · check
A. Whitfield #88 TE	22	29 g	+38%	Medium · watch
D. Russo #3 CB	9	33 g	+31%	Medium · watch
J. Okafor #7 QB	4	19 g	−6%	Low · clear
R. Kim #11 WR	7	17 g	−12%	Low · clear
C. Nwosu #62 OL	27	24 g	+4%	Low · clear
S. Martinez #19 S	6	21 g	−9%	Low · clear

2 need eyes 2 watching 18 clear 199 of 200 hits this session within normal 0 needless tent visits

Example roster · names and numbers are illustrative

Why built in

You can't just stick this on a helmet.

NOCSAE, the group that certifies football helmets, says adding anything to a helmet after it's certified makes it a new, untested helmet. The maker can void the certification. No school will risk that.

A stick-on sensor is a risk. A built-in sensor is a feature. The only legal way to get this into a certified helmet is to build it in before the helmet is certified.

Which is exactly who we sell to

Industrial

A quarter of construction deaths are head injuries.

Same physics as a football field. Almost nobody makes this for hard hats. And one avoided injury claim pays for the whole crew.

The landscape

Others sell a product. We sell the part inside it.

Impact sensors already exist. That's the proof people want this. What doesn't exist is one system any helmet maker can license, for any kind of helmet.

Who	What they do	Where it stops
Riddell InSite	Sensors inside Riddell's own football helmets	Only if you buy Riddell. One sport.
Prevent Biometrics	Sensors in a mouthguard	Only sports with mouthguards. Nothing for a worksite.
Clip-on sensors	Aftermarket units that attach to a helmet	The certification problem above.
IMPACT IQ	Licensed sensing built in at the factory	Any helmet. Sport, work, military.

Any helmet

If it has a helmet, it can have this.

We don't make one product for one sport. We make the part inside, and it fits any shell a maker builds around it. The U.S. military is the biggest single buyer of helmets in the country. A defense contract is on our list, and the same unit works there too.

FootballHockeyLacrosseBaseballCyclingMotorcycleConstructionUtilitiesMilitary

The model

Manufacturers pay. Nobody else has to change anything.

We don't make helmets, we don't hold stock, and we don't ship anything. It arrives inside a helmet someone was already going to buy.

$22

per helmet · licence

The helmet maker pays this for every helmet built with IMPACT IQ inside. A maker that builds 100,000 helmets a year pays $2.2M and sells the same way it always has.

per person · per year

Teams and employers pay for the dashboard that keeps each person's history. The hardware sells once. This comes back every year, and a season of history is worth more than one reading.

Protection that reports back.

IMPACT IQ makes a helmet honest about what it just took, on the field and on the job, so nobody keeps going with an injury nobody saw.

The ask: two schools and one work crew for one season. Free. We bring the data back.

A helmet that can say what it just took.