Rest defence
Defensive transitions monitored continuously, with vulnerabilities ranked by severity: free space, the players exposed, and how long it stayed open.
One system, built on data we generate ourselves
Alai turns your tracking feed into its own event and phase layer within five seconds, on your club's definitions, then runs a growing suite of tactical analysis on top of it while the match is still being played.
Events & phases
The layer everything else reads
Alai derives its own events and phase segments from the tracking data itself: every player, the whole pitch, the whole match, within five seconds. They follow your club's definitions rather than a provider's, arrive live in your tagging timeline, and carry context no operator could attach mid-match.
Alai events
Manual event data
Source
Your tracking data
Human operators watching video
Coverage
100% of the pitch, 100% of the match
Only what the eye catches
Latency
Within 5 seconds, in-match
A few minutes
Definitions
Your club's own definitions
The provider's fixed definitions
Context
Metadata no operator could add live
Event type and location
Analysis modules
What gets detected
Every module runs frame by frame during the match, and again across matches for opponent preparation. The suite expands with what your club needs.
You are committed in their final third when they win it back. Two of their players stayed upfield against one of yours, and the space behind is measured before the ball is even played into it.
- Rest defence
- 2 v 1
- Space behind
- 155 m²
- Severity
- Critical
The suite
Running on every match
Missed pass opportunities
The passes that were on and never played, scored against the option actually chosen, and how many defensive lines they would have bypassed.
Corners
Swing type, arrival zone, attacking runs, defensive roles, man-versus-zone scheme, first and second contact, and a dedicated corner xG model.
Throw-ins
Throw-in detection with pitch context, so attacking-third restarts stop being invisible in the data.
High press
Pressing intensity per player, every sequence tracked to won, contained or broken, and the openings the press concedes behind it.
Final-third penetrations
Possession-scoped entries into the final third, counted as single, double or triple entries so repeated territory gains are visible.
Passes and possession
Ball-motion pass detection with possession sequences, so build-up quality is measurable rather than described.
Shots
Shot events with expected-goals context, linked back to the sequence and set piece that created them.
Phases of play
Build-up, create, attacking play and both transitions, plus high, mid and low block. Every event is joined to the phase it happened in.
Event generation
Reads the whole pitch for the whole match and returns events within five seconds on your club's own definitions. It is the layer every other module reads.
API access
Live streams and historical queries so your own developers can build in-house products and dashboards on the same data, under the same security standards.
And what you need next
The suite is not fixed. If your club analyses something we do not cover yet, we build the module with you rather than asking you to work around it.
Live
Control the critical moments
Analysis arrives on the bench while there is still time to change something.
- Detected as it happens
- Tracking frames stream in at 25 fps and each module analyses continuously. Vulnerabilities, pressing outcomes and set pieces are published to the live view the moment they are finalised.
- Ranked, not dumped
- Every detection carries a severity and the players involved, so the bench sees the two things worth acting on rather than a feed of everything that moved.
- Recurring patterns flagged
- The trend detector connects repeated situations within the match, the same gap opening from the same trigger, so a one-off is never mistaken for a pattern.
Phase segmentation
90′
12′ Line break
26′ Press broken
43′ Rest defence
58′ Corner
71′ Final third
84′ Shot
In possession
- Build-up
- Create
- Attacking play
- Transition to offensive
Out of possession
- High block
- Mid block
- Low block
- Transition to defensive
Auto tagging
Live tags, no one at the keyboard
Detected moments land in your tagging timeline as the match unfolds, already carrying the context an analyst would otherwise have to add by hand. Nobody has to operate it during the game.
- Tags appear live, with nobody operating anything
- Works with the video tools your analysts already use
- Finished matches can be exported on demand
- Your own naming and definitions are preserved
- Key moments come with clips already made
Match timeline
00′ Tagging live
Possession
Rest defence
Corners
Press
Line breaks
Shots
0′ 15′ 30′ 45′ 60′ 75′ 90′
Opponent preparation
The Insights Hub
The same modules, asked across many matches: which patterns recur, in which phase, and how often.
- Opponent-first, not season-first
- Pick the team you play on Saturday and every module re-answers for them: set-piece routines, pressing shape, where they are broken down, and which players create the risk.
- Recurrence and phase
- A pattern is only useful if it repeats. Every cross-match view carries how often a situation occurs and the phase of play it belongs to.
- Scope you control
- Last six matches, home or away, one competition. Set the scope once and every module answers within it.
Recurring pattern
Last 6 matches
Space conceded between right centre-back and right-back in transition to defensive, in 4 of 6 matches.
AGF (a)
Viborg (h)
AaB (a)
Randers (h)
Midtjylland (a)
Copenhagen (h)
Post-match
Evaluation that is ready before you are
Detection runs during the match, so the review exists at the final whistle.
- Immediate module summaries
- Each module lands with its own verdict: how many sequences, what the outcomes were, and which moments carry the evidence.
- Auto-generated key moments
- Clips are produced automatically with context and severity attached, ready to share through the video workflow you already use.
- Printable match reports
- Reports built from the same detections, benchmarked against your season trends and tuned to your tactical priorities.
Match report
Full time + 0′
Rest defence
6 vulnerabilities · 2 critical
Missed line breaks
4 missed · +0.31 xT forgone
Corners
8 for · 0.54 xG
Pressing
31 sequences · 42 % won
Final third
19 entries · 6 double
4 clips
For developers
One API.
Everything you need.
Everything the platform runs on is available to your own developers. Stream events live during the match, query history, and build in-house products and dashboards on top, with the security and quality standards a first-team data department needs.
- Live event streaming during the match
- Historical queries across matches and seasons
- Events, phases, players and module output
- GDPR-compliant infrastructure and access control
live_alerts.py
Python
from alai import AlaiClient client = AlaiClient(api_key=ALAI_API_KEY) # Every event Alai generates, streamed as the match runs async for event in client.live.stream(match_id): if event.severity == "critical": bench.notify( module=event.module, players=event.players, free_space=event.free_space_m2, )
Choose how to get started
Start with a pilot
Run Alai alongside your current workflow for a block of matches and judge it on your own football.
- Connects to your existing tracking data feed
- The full analysis suite, live and post-match
- Auto tagging into your existing timeline
- Onboarding and analyst training included
Roll out across the club
Full-season deployment with the support a first-team analysis department needs.
- Season-long coverage for every fixture
- Insights Hub for opponent preparation
- Custom reporting tuned to your tactical model
- Dedicated support and GDPR-compliant infrastructure
See it running on your own data
We will take one of your recent matches and show you what Alai would have surfaced, live.