Sunday · May 10, 2026 Manifesto · Volume 1
Padellix

§ Manifesto · Volume 1 · 2026 · A Coruña, Galicia

The padel club
deserves better software.

For years we have watched small clubs pay a commission on every booking, hand their data over to platforms they do not control, and resign themselves to interfaces built for everything except managing a club. Padellix exists to undo that deal.

§ 01 · Open source

Why AGPL v3.

Your club should not depend on the financial health of a foreign competitor. The code that runs your bookings, your CRM and your internal ranking is published, audited and reproducible. If Padellix disappears tomorrow, the club keeps running on the same software, no lock-in.

AGPL v3 protects that freedom: nobody can take our work, lock it behind a paywall and resell it back to you. If someone improves the platform, that improvement returns to the ecosystem. The club wins because the tool wins.

§ 02 · Business model

Why no booking commission.

Every time a player books a court on a commission platform, the club pays a toll and loses ownership of the relationship. That email becomes an asset of the marketplace, not of the club paying the rent, the lights and the coaches.

Padellix runs on a fixed monthly fee. The player belongs to the club, not to us. We do not sell their email, we do not cross-sell them the court of the competitor down the street, we do not feed their data into a generic search engine. The club signs, the club invoices, the club retains.

§ 03 · Federation data

Why official FEP data, not scraping.

Some sites invent rankings, others copy federation listings by hand, others outright scrape someone else's website. We do not. Padellix integrates with official Spanish padel federation (FEP) data through agreed channels: verified FEP licence, real national ranking, auditable tournament scoring.

When a club competes against another club in an inter-club tournament, both sides know the data is real, not a marketing number. That is the foundation a federated league worth caring about can be built on.

§ 04 · Origin

Why built in A Coruña.

Galicia has 600 active courts, ten months of rain a year, family-run clubs with three courts and members who know each other by name. That is the reality of real Iberian padel, not the marketing of a hotel court in Marbella. Building the product from here means decisions are made for the club that locks the gate at 22:30 because the owner pulls the shutter down personally.

We operate on AWS Europe (eu-west-1, Ireland). Data does not leave the EU. The company, Enekui SL, invoices in Spain. Customers talk to people who have stood on their courts. Padel is Iberian; the software should be too.

§ 05 · Lix

Why Lix, not another copilot.

Lix is not a decorative assistant suggesting the obvious. Lix is a real worker with a voice of its own: qualifies new member leads, organises matches by level, chases unpaid fees, answers technical questions and hands off to a human when it matters. Tone, judgement and limits.

We do not ask the player to learn our product: we ask Lix to learn the player. The conversation is the interface, not the screen. And when Lix does not know, Lix says so. That is part of the deal too.

Padellix · A Coruña · Volume 1, May 2026 Enekui SL · CIF B-XXXXXXXX