Off until you say otherwise
Simply Softball is a complete product with AI turned off. Every AI feature is opt-in for your team — turn on what helps, skip what does not, and change your mind anytime. Nothing on this page is required.
Optional AI
Coach the games. Automate the group-chat questions.
Simply Softball is complete with AI off. Turn it on and the manager gets Ask Simply — instant answers on rosters, schedules, and balances — while your team website answers “what time is warm-up on Saturday?” at 9 pm, from what you publish, with a person one handoff away.
The ground rules
Four things that stay true, whatever you switch on.
AI in Simply Softball was built the way we would want it used on our own team: opt-in, supervised, explainable, and priced in the open.
People decide; people answer
Ask Simply proposes — a person approves before anything changes. The website assistant answers — and hands the conversation to your team the moment someone asks for a person. AI here extends your people; it never replaces them.
Answers show their work
Ask Simply cites the records behind every answer and previews every change before it happens. Website conversations land in your inbox with a per-answer trace for admins. Usage is metered visibly, spending caps are on by default, and every AI price is public on the pricing page.
Your permissions are the AI’s permissions
Ask Simply can only see what the signed-in person is allowed to see — enforced by the platform, not by the AI’s good manners. The website assistant knows only the information you connect. It all runs on the same AWS infrastructure as the rest of Simply Softball, and your data is never used to train AI models.
Flavor one — for your team
Ask Simply: the colleague who read everything.
Ask Simply answers from your live club data with the asker’s own permissions, cites the records behind every answer, and proposes changes for approval instead of just making them.
“Who is missing a signed waiver and a jersey size on the Thursday roster?”
The chase list, the right contacts, and a drafted reminder — pre-season paperwork reduced to a question and an approval.
“Where does the budget stand after the tournament deposits?”
Income, spending, and what is left in plain language with live numbers linked — the treasurer’s report without the spreadsheet night.
“How many raffle entries came in this week, and which teams sold them?”
Live fundraiser totals by team and by seller — the envelope math, done by the system.
“Add a pant-size field to registration.”
Changing your setup becomes a sentence, a preview, and an approval — the forms grow as fast as the uniform order does.
“Build a view of this season’s roster with emergency contacts.”
Ask Simply proposes the view, shows what it will include, and shares it with the bench when you approve — the dugout contact sheet that used to take an evening.
“Draft the tournament-weekend update for the whole club.”
Announcements start as solid drafts built from the live schedule, in your voice — you make them yours before anything sends.
From the big numbers to the missing-form chase to drafting the next page — if it lives in Simply Softball, you can ask about it in plain language. See Ask Simply live in a demo
On the go
Your whole system, in a back pocket.
From the bleachers, ask your phone “what time is our Sunday bracket game, and who still has an open contribution?” — Ask Simply lives in the Simply Anywhere mobile app, because club questions rarely happen at a desk.
Chat turns out to be the perfect mobile interface for a system like this: no menus to hunt through, no laptop to open — just the question, the cited answer, and the approval, wherever the work is happening.
The full Ask Simply, inside the Simply Anywhere appSame permissions, sources, and approvals as your deskAsk for the number on the way into the meetingReview and approve proposed changes from anywhereYour records, messages, and notifications ride along
Flavor two — for the people you serve
A website that answers back — honestly.
Players and softball families ask questions at night and decide fast. A conversation widget on your team website answers honestly from your published schedules, fees, and fundraiser pages, hands over the right form, and routes anything personal straight to your people.
“How do I join, and what does the season cost?”
Signup dates, published fees, and what is included, answered from your own pages — with the registration form offered right in the conversation.
“Which field is Saturday’s game on?”
Live schedule questions answered instantly — the message your manager gets fifty times a season, handled while they watch the game.
“How do I enter the raffle, and what are the prizes?”
Your published raffle page explained plainly, with the ticket form and the free-entry option both delivered — honest fundraising, made easy to join.
“My daughter is injured — who do I talk to about the roster?”
Anything about a player goes straight to your team — a person, not a policy — with the assistant handling only the logistics around it.
Sound like your dugout — encouraging, plain-spoken, welcoming to players and parents alike — with your own words for teams, tournaments, and traditions, and hard limits on what belongs to coaches and captains.
The assistant is always honest about being an assistant, and a human is always one ask away — because the fastest way to lose someone’s trust is to fake a person.
Your assistant, your rules
Customization, control, and a paper trail.
A public assistant speaks for you, so you hold the controls — what it knows, how it sounds, and what it is never allowed to do.
It sounds like you
Guidance and voice settings — tone, words to use, words to avoid, example answers — teach the assistant your way of speaking. Each widget can also choose a deeper or faster AI model.
It knows what you connect — nothing else
You choose the pages, knowledge articles, and workflows behind each widget. It answers from those, says so when it does not know, and cannot wander into data you did not connect.
Real actions, same safeguards
When a visitor registers, signs up, or pays, the assistant walks them through the same verified forms and payment flows as the rest of your site. It cannot write to your data any other way.
People, one ask away
Visitors can reach your team at any point, and the assistant escalates on its own when it is unsure or the topic is sensitive. Conversations land in your inbox with full context — and offline hours are handled honestly.
Every conversation, visible
Your team can read every conversation, see what the assistant consulted for each answer, test changes before publishing, and measure satisfaction — including the questions it could not answer, so you know what to publish next.
Costs with a ceiling
AI usage is metered transparently with spending caps on by default. Plans include monthly AI credit, and live website assistants carry a flat monthly price — all published on the pricing page.
Honest answers
If you never turn AI on, Simply Softball is still Simply Softball.
Coaching calls, playing-time conversations, and anything personal about a player stay with your people, always. The AI answers schedules and forms so the volunteers get their evenings back.
And if you do turn it on, it stays optional forever — feature by feature, widget by widget, with visible usage, spending caps, and public prices.
Bring us tournament weekend. We will make it feel simple.
Show us the roster spreadsheet, the group chat, and the fundraising envelope. We will map them to Simply Softball and show you the calmer version of next season.