College sports changed.
The paperwork didn't.
NIL33 puts every athlete endorsement on a public record: signed terms, a flat fee or none, the disclosure that applies, and a profile the athlete controls. Nothing to buy. Nothing anyone has to take on faith.
Imagery on this site is original and illustrative. No real athlete is depicted, and no one is endorsing anything until their countersigned agreement is on the ledger.
The athlete at the center
Everyone around a college athlete and their family, and the document between each of them. Everything that used to hide in the gaps stays outside the ring. Tap a point for how it usually works and how it works here, or open the full map.
What happened to college sports
Four layers of rules, none of them a single rulebook, and the money moved before the paperwork did. Each fact below carries its source and was last checked on 2026-09-10. The whole picture · The rules table.
The SCORE Act was pulled from the House floor in December 2025 and again in May 2026. What binds today is the FTC's Endorsement Guides: disclose every paid placement, and the advertiser must check.
Congress.gov H.R. 4312 · 16 CFR Part 255 (rev. June 29, 2023)House v. NCAA, approved June 6, 2025. Division I schools may now pay athletes directly, about $20.5 million per school in 2025-26. The money is real; the honesty rules did not change.
CRS LSB11349 · Ropes & Gray, June 2025Above that line a deal goes through the NIL Go clearinghouse for a valid-business-purpose and fair-market-value review, enforced by the College Sports Commission. An athlete needs the paperwork to show.
CRS LSB11349 · CUPA-HR, June 9, 2025The college NIL statute sunset on June 30, 2025 and was not re-enacted. For high school the only rule in force is a GHSA appendix; the 2026 bill passed the House 171-0 and died in the Senate.
GA HB 617 (sunset clause) · GA HB 383 · GHSA Appendix NWhat NIL33 does about it
Each card carries its state. Green is running and verified; amber runs with a stated gap. We do not describe anything as working that is not.
Public ledger real
Every Champion and Ambassador, what they endorse, the compensation type, and the disclosure used, published as a page and as an open machine-readable record anyone can fetch. Read it.
Signed terms real
A plain agreement, a flat fee or none, named deliverables. The signature record is hashed and chained and the receipt verifies live. It is the entry a Division I athlete hands to NIL Go. How signing works.
Know Your Athlete real, with a gap
A private profile the athlete owns, guardian-first for anyone under eighteen, a claimed account, and signed verification for schools and brands. The government-ID step waits on a vendor and the site says so. What KYA is.
Built for the people who have to check
A compliance office, a brand, a parent, or the platform a school already uses can verify a NIL33 record without asking us. Every layer has a public address and an honest state label on the transparency stack. Running a program? Start at Schools.
Read it yourself real
The ledger as a page and as an open machine-readable record. A signed verification statement for each claimed profile that a school or brand can check with no call to us. Ledger · How to check.
Report on time real
Division I athletes have five business days to report a deal of $600 or more. A junior-college transfer has 14 days after enrolling. The report pack turns a signed deal into the document set in one click. Report pack · Compliance workspace.
The record under what you already use planned
NIL33 is not a marketplace. It is the record and the clock beside whatever marketplace or disclosure tool a program already runs. Import and export for those platforms is designed and documented for integrators. Developer docs.
Two ways to stand with us
Both go on the public ledger with the disclosure that applies. Neither is ever paid a commission, a share of any fee, or anything tied to performance or school choice.
Champion
Athletes under a signed endorsement agreement: a flat fee for a term, approved lines, a kit, a portal with real results. Every placement tagged as paid.
- Flat fee, set in the agreement
- Tracked link, QR, badge, share cards
- Portal: registrations, introductions, placements
- Capped, flat honorarium for introducing another athlete who signs
Ambassador
Coaches, programs, parents, and alumni who want their athletes to sign only what they understand. No fee, no obligation, no exclusivity. The ledger says "unpaid ambassador" next to the name.
- No money changes hands, ever
- The rules, the kit, and Contract Shield for your roster
- Same approved lines, same disclosure
- Portal shows what your link did
How it works
The youth side
Live the Dream Athletics is the youth side of this work, since 2001: gear drives, coaching, and bridges between countries for young players, with every gift and grant written on a public record. The record built there carries into college NIL here. livethedreamathletics.com · Fund a dream.
Contact
Athletes, parents, coaches, programs, and brands: hello@nil33.com. Apply if you already know which side you are on; Schools if you run a program.