About QuickKicks
Software that grew up on the mat
QuickKicks didn't start in a boardroom. It started behind the front desk of a martial arts school that needed to stop losing money to spreadsheets.
We build the management platform for martial arts schools, where students advance. We believe that progression deserves to be a first-class part of the software, not an afterthought.
The story
From the front desk to a platform
The problem
A martial arts school running on spreadsheets, payment links, and a group text. Belt tests tracked on paper. Failed payments found weeks late.
The build
QuickKicks started as a CRM Jesse built for his own school. It did roster, attendance, billing, and the thing a dojo is really built around: belt progression.
Today
The platform runs the school end to end: kiosk check-in, recurring billing, events, birthday parties, a parent portal, and a branded app.
What's next
Going deeper on the dojo: smarter belt eligibility, curriculum and skill sign-off tooling, retention automation, and a tournament platform that runs rank tests and events end to end.
The founder
Why a martial artist built his own software
Head Instructor · Ni-Dan
Jesse Fearfield
Rising Fist Martial Arts
Jesse Fearfield trained young in boxing, karate, kickboxing, and jiujitsu, self-driven from his father, books, and tape long before he ever set foot in a formal school. That curiosity about the mechanics of every technique is the same instinct he brought to the front desk: figure out how the thing actually works, then build it right.
When he started running his own school, the teaching was the easy part. Everything around it was the grind. The school ran on three spreadsheets, a stack of payment links, belt tests tracked on paper, and a group text that doubled as the schedule. Failed payments surfaced weeks late. A student's progression lived in his head and a binder.
He tried the software that was out there. All of it treated a dojo like a generic gym, members as a flat list, every session the same. None of it understood the one thing a martial arts school is actually built around: a belt test is not a class, and progression is the whole point. He was paying for tools that made him work around them.
So he built his own. QuickKicks started as the system for his own school, written from behind the front desk instead of in a boardroom. Roster, attendance, recurring billing, and belt progression as a first-class part of the product, not a custom field bolted on. Every feature had to earn its place by solving a problem he hit that week.
QuickKicks is what he wished existed the day he opened the doors: software that fits how a school really runs, built by someone who still has to run one. He's clear-eyed about where QuickKicks is today, because he'd rather be the right fit for the next ten schools than overpromise to a hundred.
What we believe
The principles behind the product
Built from the floor up
QuickKicks was written for a real school with real members, not designed in the abstract. Every feature earned its place by solving an actual front-desk problem.
Progression is the point
Most software treats members as a flat list. We think the way students advance is the heart of a martial arts school, so it's the heart of the product.
Honest about where we are
We talk about QuickKicks the way it really is. We'd rather be the right fit for the next ten schools than overpromise to a hundred.
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