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About Sports 4 All

Sports 4 All exists so that every athlete — seated or standing, eight years old or eighty — can find a sport, a club and a next step. We present athletes with disabilities as athletes first.

We start with fencing. Gymnastics, skiing, swimming, track and field and team sports will follow, so one conversation can open the door to many sports.

How this was built

Fencing for All was created in collaboration with USA Fencing as part of the Salesforce Agentforce for Good Hackathon. Sport Compass is powered by Salesforce Agentforce and Data Cloud, and fencing guidance reflects USA Fencing information.

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Our impact

Fencing for All: Agentforce for Good

Sports should be for everyone. Sports 4 All helps athletes and families understand adaptive sports, discover inclusive programs, and get trusted guidance—starting with Fencing for All.

The experience is powered by Salesforce Agentforce, Salesforce Data Cloud, the Sports 4 All MCP, Lovable Cloud, a consumer-facing web experience and a ChatGPT Plugin driven by the same agent.

The challenge

The opportunity to participate exists. Finding it is the hard part.

  • Families often do not know whether a sport can accommodate a disability.
  • Adaptive-sports information is fragmented across governing bodies, clubs, event pages and local organizations.
  • Rules, classification, equipment, eligibility and qualification pathways can be confusing.
  • Many families do not know what questions to ask.
  • Program information may be outdated, inaccessible or unavailable in the family's preferred language.
  • Smaller sports organizations cannot provide knowledgeable, multilingual assistance around the clock.
  • When self-service fails, people may abandon the sport rather than request help.

From uncertainty to participation

  1. Step 1: Ask a question
  2. Step 2: Understand available adaptations
  3. Step 3: Find a suitable program
  4. Step 4: Save relevant preferences with consent
  5. Step 5: Connect with a person when needed
  6. Step 6: Begin participating

Social impact and ethical focus — 20%

Removing barriers between curiosity and participation

  • Children and adults with disabilities
  • Parents and caregivers
  • Beginning athletes
  • Adaptive and wheelchair athletes
  • Coaches and club operators
  • Families who speak different languages
  • People who do not know which sport or program fits their needs

The agent does not decide whether someone is capable of participating. It helps people understand options, accommodations, programs and appropriate next steps.

The agent opens doors. It does not define a person’s limits.

Impact measures

Every measure below is labelled honestly. Nothing here is a claimed result.

  • Pilot target

    Time needed to find an appropriate program

    Reduce from days of searching to a single conversation.

  • Pilot target

    Successful program referrals

    Increase referrals that end with a named club or program.

  • Pilot target

    Access to multilingual guidance

    Answer in the family's preferred language.

  • Pilot target

    Repetitive administrative questions

    Reduce the load on small sports organizations.

  • Pilot target

    Conversations ending in a useful next step

    Every conversation should leave someone with something to do next.

  • Live measurement

    Reaching a human when automation is not enough

    Human assistance is available in every conversation today.

Responsible AI — 20%

Helpful AI with human-centered guardrails

  • Sport Compass does not diagnose medical conditions.
  • It does not infer a disability or limitation.
  • It never tells someone they cannot participate.
  • It separates general guidance from official eligibility, classification and qualification rules.
  • It treats governing-body rules as time-sensitive.
  • It refers people to an official governing body or qualified professional when confirmation is needed.
  • It asks for consent before saving participant preferences.
  • It asks for confirmation before sending contact information in a human-assistance request.
  • It collects only the minimum information needed.
  • Agentforce credentials, Salesforce tokens, internal prompts, middleware secrets and raw error details never reach the browser.
  • A clear path to human assistance is available in every conversation.
  • When confidence is limited, answers say so and point to the governing body.

Accessibility — 20%

Accessibility is the product, not an add-on

The whole site — not just this page — is designed toward WCAG 2.2 AA. Accessibility work here is deliberate and tested by keyboard, at 200% zoom and with reduced motion enabled.

Built in throughout

  • Full keyboard navigation with visible focus indicators
  • Skip-to-content link, semantic landmarks and ordered headings
  • Labelled controls, instructions and accessible form validation
  • Chat responses announced politely to screen readers
  • Accessible loading and error states, never colour alone
  • AA colour contrast, large touch targets, plain language
  • Browser zoom and text resizing supported
  • Reduced-motion support and no auto-playing animation
  • Descriptive alternative text; decorative images hidden
  • Language attributes set when the answer language changes
  • Responsive layouts for phone, tablet, laptop and widescreen

Accessibility preferences

The accessibility button in the bottom corner of every page lets anyone set larger text, increased contrast, reduced motion, a more spacious layout, underlined links and a more readable typeface. Preferences are saved in your browser — no account needed.

Accessibility statement

Our target
Designed toward WCAG 2.2 AA. We do not claim full conformance, because not every page has been formally audited by an independent tester.
Supported features
Keyboard-only use, screen-reader labelling and live announcements in chat, visible focus, reduced motion, text resizing to 200%, adjustable text size, contrast, spacing and typeface.
Known limitations
Answers come from an AI agent, so response wording varies and may occasionally be long. Program information depends on the governing body and may be incomplete. Some content is currently English only.
Reporting a problem
Email information@usafencing.org and tell us the page and what got in your way. We aim to reply within five working days.

Originality — 15%

A trusted sports-access agent that can go anywhere

  • The experience begins with the human question, not a complicated directory.
  • Agentforce turns uncertainty into clear next steps.
  • Data Cloud can unify program, governing-body, participant-preference and engagement data.
  • MCP makes the same Agentforce capabilities reusable across channels.
  • The website and the ChatGPT Plugin use the same agent instead of disconnected assistants.
  • Human escalation stays part of the journey.
  • Fencing is the focused starting point; the architecture expands to other summer, winter, recreational and Paralympic sports.

How a question travels

Text description: a question from an athlete or family enters through the website or the ChatGPT Plugin, is passed to the Sports 4 All MCP, which calls Salesforce Agentforce, which draws on Data Cloud, trusted sports information, program data and Salesforce workflows before answering back along the same path.

  1. Athlete or family

    A real question, in plain language.

  2. Sports-4-All.org or ChatGPT Plugin

    The channel the person already prefers.

  3. Sports 4 All MCP

    A secure, reusable tool interface. Credentials stay on the server.

  4. Salesforce Agentforce

    Reasoning, tool choice, grounded answers, conversational continuity.

  5. Data Cloud, trusted sports information, program data and Salesforce workflows

    Grounding, unified records and human escalation.

Demonstrability — 15%

Try the complete journey

  • Scenario 1: Inclusive participation

    “Can my daughter fence from a wheelchair?”

    • Calls ask_fencing_question
    • Gives encouraging, practical guidance
    • Avoids medical assumptions
    • Suggests an appropriate next step

  • Scenario 2: Fencing education

    “What's the difference between épée, foil, and sabre? Can someone do all three?”

    • Calls ask_fencing_question
    • Clearly explains the three disciplines
    • Supports a follow-up in the same Agentforce session

  • Scenario 3: Paralympic pathway

    “How do you qualify for the Paralympics?”

    • Calls ask_fencing_question
    • Explains the general pathway
    • Flags rules as time-sensitive
    • Recommends official confirmation

  • Scenario 4: Program discovery

    “Find an inclusive fencing program near me.”

    • Asks for location only when needed
    • Calls find_sports_programs
    • Uses get_program_details after you choose a result
    • Presents accessible, scannable result cards

  • Scenario 5: Human assistance

    “I'd like someone to help us get started.”

    • Explains what will be submitted
    • Asks for your confirmation
    • Calls request_human_assistance
    • Shows a clear success or retry state

Live system status

Checking services…

Each status is checked against the live service. Nothing here is hard-coded.

Ask for a person means a visitor can always reach a human. When someone asks for help, Sport Compass shows a short form, asks permission before sending anything, and passes the name, preferred contact method and reason to USA Fencing at information@usafencing.org. This status shows whether that request tool is reachable right now — never that a person is waiting live.

Scalability and adoption — 10%

Start with fencing. Scale to every sport.

  1. Live

    Phase 1: Fencing for All

    • Wheelchair and adaptive fencing education
    • USA Fencing information
    • Program discovery
    • Human assistance
    • Web and ChatGPT access
  2. Next

    Phase 2: More adaptive sports

    • Summer and winter sports
    • Local and national programs
    • Governing-body information
    • Event and clinic discovery
  3. Next

    Phase 3: A reusable platform

    • Sports organizations onboard their own trusted data
    • Shared Agentforce and MCP architecture
    • Multilingual support
    • Additional consumer channels
    • Aggregate analytics that reveal where people encounter barriers

The adoption model

  • Governing bodies contribute verified information.
  • Clubs and programs maintain current availability and accessibility details.
  • Athletes and families use the channel they already prefer.
  • Agentforce answers common questions and escalates higher-touch needs.
  • Data Cloud helps unify fragmented information and measure unmet demand.

Under the hood

Built on Agentforce—not merely branded with AI

What Agentforce does

  • LiveInterprets natural-language questions
  • LiveChooses the appropriate action
  • LiveRetrieves grounded information
  • LiveMaintains conversational continuity
  • LiveReturns helpful next steps
  • PrototypeEscalates to a human when necessary

What Data Cloud does

  • PrototypeUnifies program and organization records
  • PrototypeSupports grounding with trusted information
  • PrototypeConnects participant preferences only with consent
  • NextAggregate insight into topics, locations, languages and unmet needs
  • NextHelps organizations spot missing accessibility information

What the MCP layer does

  • LiveProvides a secure, reusable interface to Agentforce
  • LiveKeeps Salesforce credentials on the server
  • LiveSupports the consumer website
  • LiveSupports the ChatGPT Plugin
  • NextAllows additional channels to use the same governed agent

Headless Hero

Agentforce beyond the website

Sports 4 All is also available through a ChatGPT Plugin powered by the same Agentforce agent and MCP tools. This demonstrates a headless Agentforce architecture: one governed agent, reusable across multiple consumer experiences.

Sports 4 All is also available as a ChatGPT Plugin. Ask the Sports 4 All team for access.

Website
Visual discovery, guided examples, accessible program cards.
ChatGPT Plugin
Conversational access in a familiar AI workspace.
Shared foundation
Agentforce, Data Cloud, MCP tools, safeguards and human escalation.

Agent observability

Every agent action should be understandable and measurable

What we record

  • Agent sessions: internal id, hashed visitor token, Agentforce session id, sequence id, channel, language, timestamps and consent state.
  • Agent events: session reference, timestamp, tool name, event type, success or failure, response latency, error category, escalation requested, program result count and safety fallback.

What we never record

  • Salesforce access tokens, Agentforce credentials or MCP secrets.
  • Medical details or full contact information in analytics.
  • Raw conversations — transcripts are not stored by default.
  • Administrative data exposed to the browser: this dashboard is aggregate-only, served from the server under row-level security.

Judge dashboard

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Live measurement. Aggregate counts only; no question or answer text is ever shown here.

Summary

How Sports 4 All addresses the judging criteria

  • Social Impact and Ethical Focus

    20%

    Reduces informational and accessibility barriers between athletes and sports participation.

  • Responsible AI

    20%

    Uses consent, minimal-data collection, grounded answers, transparent limitations, safety guardrails and human escalation.

  • Accessibility

    20%

    Designs the complete experience toward WCAG 2.2 AA and includes adaptable visual and interaction preferences.

  • Originality

    15%

    Makes one Agentforce agent reusable across a consumer website, ChatGPT Plugin and future channels through MCP.

  • Demonstrability

    15%

    Provides five clear, working journeys that judges can launch and test.

  • Scalability and Adoption

    10%

    Begins with fencing while providing a reusable model for additional sports, programs, languages, organizations and channels.

Areas this project is designed to address

  • Accessibility Excellence
  • Abilityforce Equality Group Challenge
  • Headless Agentforce Experience
  • Agent Observability

These are focus areas, not awards received.