Win the athlete. Keep the athlete. Serve the ones no one else can.
You close the deals. SidelineWealth makes sure your athletes keep the most from them — and lets you confidently represent the international athletes most agents quietly turn away. You don't become a tax expert. You become the agent who brings all of it to the table.
What an agent actually gets
Walk into the room with a live, branded illustration that shows not just the gross — but what the athlete actually keeps: S-Corp vs. baseline, their home state, multi-state road games, a quarterly plan. Two agents land the same deal; the one who makes the money make sense is the one who signs them — and keeps them. Retention is your annuity.
A foreign athlete brings visa work-authorization, tax treaties, FDAP withholding, 1042-S and 1040-NR — none of which a domestic playbook touches, so most agents quietly pass or wing it. SidelineWealth lets you confidently sign and serve them: a go/no-go authorization check, the nonresident tax picture, a branded compliance memo. That's a bigger book and commissions you'd otherwise never see.
The same gross is worth wildly different net depending on how it's structured: royalty vs. service, S-Corp, state of residence, timing. For an international athlete, the right treaty classification can be the difference between 30% and a single-digit rate — six figures on a seven-figure deal. You (or your advisor partner) surface it; the athlete never forgets who did.
Close an NIL deal an F-1 athlete isn't authorized to do, and you can cost them their immigration status — and yourself the client and a lawsuit. The go/no-go check runs before you sign. Think of it as malpractice insurance for the deals you're proudest of.
Drop in a contract — it reads the room
Upload a deal and SidelineWealth identifies what it is — endorsement, licensing, appearance, revenue-share, agency — and drafts the plan inputs for you to confirm. Most importantly, if the athlete is foreign it flags it: citizenship, visa, and the nonresident withholding, treaty, and work-authorization questions a domestic plan would silently miss — so you catch the visa landmine before you sign. It's a draft you confirm, never auto-saved, and the document is processed in memory and never stored.
Your commission is on the gross. Your relationship is on the net.
You get paid on the deal you close — but the athlete remembers what landed in their account. A $500K deal can net the athlete tens of thousands more (or less) depending on entity, state, and how the income is classified. For a foreign athlete, a deal treated as a treaty-rate royalty instead of 30% FDAP withholding can be six figures back in their pocket — the same $500K deal. The agent who surfaces that is the agent they never leave. SidelineWealth is the tool that shows it, in their living room, in seconds.
Illustration only — not tax, legal, or immigration advice. Figures depend on each athlete's full situation; treaty positions need verification against IRS Pub 901 and visa questions a licensed immigration attorney. SidelineWealth surfaces the questions and the math — it doesn't replace counsel.
The foreign athletes on your roster are your edge — if you can serve them.
Most agents can't handle a visa work-authorization question, a treaty rate, or 1042-S withholding — so they lose those athletes or put them at risk. Be the agent who signs them with confidence: a go/no-go authorization check before the deal, a nonresident tax engine, and a branded compliance memo — per athlete, across your whole roster.