College Recruiting Blog

Oct 22, 2026 ·

Product Updates

New for Organizations: AI Email Templates Your Athletes Send as Their Own

Admins at clubs, high schools, and recruiting services can now have AI write email templates in the athlete's voice, for the whole roster or for one athlete from their full profile. Here's how it works and what else got better.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Oct 20, 2026 ·

Product Updates

See Which College Programs Are Engaging With Your Athletes

Clubs, high schools, and recruiting services can now see which college programs are engaging with their athletes, ranked by how many athletes each program clicked, viewed, or replied to. Here's how the new Engagement page works and how to use it.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Oct 15, 2026 ·

Product Updates

Introducing Roster Needs: Find the Programs Likely to Need Your Position

See which college programs are likely to need your position in your class, forecast from the class years on every roster we track.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Oct 7, 2026 ·

Product Updates

ProductiveRecruit September 2026 Product Update

The engagement score shows which coaches are actually leaning in. Plus cancel a campaign mid-send, click counts you can trust with email scanners filtered out, AI templates that use the details you give them, and help with broken template tags.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Oct 6, 2026 ·

Product Updates

Introducing College Matching: Know Which Schools Fit You Best

Every program in your divisions, ranked by how well it fits what you want in a college, with a match % and the plain-English reasons behind it.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Sep 30, 2026 ·

Press Releases

Colin on the D3P Podcast: Using Technology to Accelerate Your Recruiting

ProductiveRecruit founder Colin McAtee joined D3P: A DIII Baseball Podcast to talk about writing emails coaches open, reading engagement, and using AI without losing your voice.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Sep 18, 2026 ·

Product Updates

College Coach Data Update: September 2026

Every month we update our college coach database so the contacts in your recruiting list are the coaches actually running the program right now. Here's what changed in September 2026.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Sep 3, 2026 ·

Product Updates

ProductiveRecruit August 2026 Product Update

Clubs can now put live team rosters on their own website, in their own colors. Athletes got a bigger target list toolkit: bulk add from college search, clearer statuses, and a tab per sport. Plus calendar schedule imports, self-serve sport changes, and coach replies right inside ProductiveRecruit.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Sep 2, 2026 ·

Product Updates

Introducing the Engagement Score: See Which College Coaches Are Actually Paying Attention

Every action a coach takes on your outreach now rolls into one engagement score per college program. Here's how the score works, where it shows up in ProductiveRecruit, and how to use it to decide which schools to follow up with first.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Aug 22, 2026 ·

Product Updates

College Coach Data Update: August 2026

Every month we update our college coach database so the contacts in your recruiting list are the coaches actually running the program right now. Here's what changed in August 2026.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Aug 12, 2026 ·

Product Updates

Introducing Reply Tracking: Coach Replies, Right Inside ProductiveRecruit

Coach replies now land inside ProductiveRecruit, threaded into a conversation with everything you sent. See which coaches are waiting on you, and reply without leaving the app.

Colin McAtee

Founder

Aug 7, 2026 ·

Product Updates

ProductiveRecruit July 2026 Product Update

We rebuilt the athlete profile around how college coaches actually read it: a sticky section nav, your status up top, stats grouped the way coaches think, and photos that open full size. Plus AI schedule import for your own events and sharper campaign targeting.

Colin McAtee

Founder