Built by shooters.
For the way matches actually run.
Core Stage was founded in Florida by competitors, range officers, and club owners who were tired of stitching together five broken tools to run a single match. Registration in one app. Payments in another. Scoring on a tablet that won't sync. Squadding on a spreadsheet. We knew the sport deserved better — so we built it.
The frustration that started it.
The current generation of match tools is a decade behind the sport. PractiScore crashes mid-match. Sign-up runs through a separate site that doesn't talk to it. Payments require manual reconciliation. There's no real squadding logic. Live scores don't actually go live. Clubs lose money on no-shows because there's no waitlist. Shooters lose hours on the line because RO tablets can't sync.
We've shot the matches. We've worked the bays. We've sat in the safe area at 9pm cross-referencing a printed roster against a tablet that lost its connection. That's where Core Stage started — at a Florida USPSA match in 2024 where the MD spent more time fighting software than running the event.
"We're not building another scoring app. We're building the operating system for competitive shooting — match management, payments, scoring, marketplace, and shooter identity in one platform that actually works on a hot range."
How we build.
Range-tested
Every feature ships only after it survives a live match. No theory, no demo software.
Offline-first
Bays lose signal. Our RO scoring works fully offline and syncs the second a tablet sees a tower.
Precision tooling
Sub-second leaderboards, audited payouts, classifier-grade scoring math. No spreadsheets in the loop.
Built with clubs
Florida MDs, USPSA RMs, PRS shooters — they shape every release before public launch.
The whole stack of the sport.
One profile across every discipline. Classifications, history, gear, payouts.
Run a match in 15 minutes. Get paid the same week. Stop chasing no-shows.
Scoring that works offline. Squad rotation that doesn't break the schedule.
Multi-day, multi-division, multi-bay logistics. Real-time leaderboards your crowd can watch.
Florida-built. Range-deployed.
Core Stage is headquartered in Florida — within driving distance of more USPSA, IDPA, and Steel Challenge matches per weekend than almost anywhere else in the country. That's not a marketing line. That's our test lab.
When something breaks at a Saturday match, our team is on the bay Sunday morning fixing it. That feedback loop is the entire point.
- Founded
- 2024
- Discipline focus
- USPSA · IDPA · Steel · PRS · 3-Gun
- Stack
- Offline-first scoring · Real-time payouts · Marketplace
- Team
- Shooters, ROs, club owners, and the engineers who back them
Run your next match on Core Stage.
Clubs onboarding now get white-glove setup, free migration from PractiScore, and direct access to the team that builds the product.