About

Built for the people who teach the game.

PrivatePro is the operations platform for independent racquet sports and golf professionals — the head pros at private clubs, the academy coaches building their own roster, the traveling instructors who teach at four facilities and get paid four different ways.

Why we exist

The people who teach the best sports in the world are running their businesses out of group chats and shoeboxes. Bookings live in Instagram DMs. Payments come in as Venmo screenshots. Client notes are scrawled on the back of scorecards. Year-end taxes mean a weekend of spreadsheet archaeology.

The big club software wasn't built for this. Jonas and ClubEssential are institutional tools that handle the club's accounts; they don't help the head pro who's also running fifteen private students on the side. The fitness-app ecosystem isn't it either — those tools are built for the client, not the coach.

So instructors hack it together. And the work — the actual teaching — never gets the infrastructure it deserves.

Who we serve

PrivatePro is for the independent operator. Specifically:

If you teach a sport for a living and you've ever opened your phone to find a 6am text asking "are you free Tuesday at four?" — we built this for you.

What we're building

The product comes together in three layers:

Stripe and Venmo. Calendar sync. Cert verification. Year-end tax exports. All the boring stuff that makes the rest of the work possible.

How we work

We talk to instructors first and build second. The roadmap moves on what real coaches actually need, not what the spec sheet thinks is sexy. Every feature we ship has at least three real pros who said "I would use this tomorrow."

We don't sell to clubs as our entry point. The club is welcome — but the platform belongs to the pro. Your roster, your data, your link. You can export everything and walk away anytime.

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Founder
Grace O'Shea Destro

All-American track athlete. Sneaker hustler before that — out of her bedroom in middle school, then the school hallways. Spent her first career trading at a hedge fund, where she learned what real infrastructure for a business actually looks like.

She started PrivatePro after watching too many private coaches run their entire operation off Venmo screenshots and group chats — talented operators with no data, no system, and no leverage. The pros deserve better tools. PrivatePro is the work of building them, sport by sport.

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