FieldNotes is the platform built for sports writers who are done giving their best work to publications that treat them like content farms. Write, publish, monetize, and own your audience.
The sports media business is broken. Writers do the reporting, publications take the ad money, and the people who actually create the content get nothing. That's not how it should work.
Stat embeds, score widgets, schedule integrations — the tools you need to write the sports content your readers actually want, not whatever generic CMS templates allow.
Your subscriber list, your analytics, your brand. Not ours. You can export everything anytime. We don't hold your audience hostage.
Florida just legalized sports betting. The market is exploding. We integrate cleanly with affiliate programs so you can monetize the content readers already want.
A focused writing environment designed for long-form sports analysis. No distractions, no SEO popups, no algorithm manipulation — just you and your draft.
Pull stats, surface trends, generate headlines — AI handles the tedious research so you can focus on the analysis that separates good writers from great ones.
Set your own price. Readers pay you directly — not a publication, not a middleman. We take a transparent flat fee. What you earn is yours.
I wrote 200 articles for FanSided. Made $340 total. The platform took everything. FieldNotes is the first time a company has said 'you built the audience, you keep the money' and actually meant it.
The Athletic pays well but I don't own my list, I don't own my brand, and if they decide to cut my beat I'm done. I want something I can build on my own terms. That's what FieldNotes is.
I've been covering high school football in Florida for six years. There's no platform for local sports writers. Everything goes to ESPN or Bleacher Report. FieldNotes changes that.
The AI research features alone save me 2 hours per article. I can pull stats, check trends, and draft a clean piece in half the time. That changes everything about whether this is worth doing.
The sports media industry is worth over $80 billion a year. The people who create the content that drives that revenue — the reporters, the analysts, the beat writers, the independents — see almost none of it.
FieldNotes exists to fix that. We built the platform we wished existed when we were grinding out articles for other people's publications: clean tools, fair revenue splits, and a business model that treats writers as partners, not inventory.
If you've ever written something you were proud of, only to watch a platform monetize it while you got nothing — you understand why we built this.
The sports media industry is worth over $80 billion a year. Writers get almost none of it. That's the problem we're here to solve.From the FieldNotes founding memo, June 2026
Sports betting is legal in 38 states. Independent media is thriving. Writers are burned out with platforms that extract value from them. The conditions for something different have never been better.
FieldNotes is the platform for the next generation of sports writers — the ones who want to build something of their own, on their own terms, and own what they build.