Race day shouldn't keep you up at night.
Rouback is the safety platform for cycling races. It screens each course before the first pedal stroke, supports your safety team during a race, and captures every incident from start to finish.
Safety is still run on gut feel and walkie-talkies.
Cycling has modernised everything from training to broadcasting, but race-day safety hasn't kept pace. Course inspections depend on the few commissioners who've seen it before, and communication still fragments once the race goes live.
- No structured way to screen a course for risk
- Communication breaks down when it matters most
- Incident data is not existing or kept for future reference
- Safety decisions happen in isolation, not distributed
- No way of complete course information at a glance
- Every race you start from zero again
The question isn't whether to modernise race safety. It's how fast you can.
One platform. Three phases. Complete coverage.
Every race follows the same arc: preparation, execution, review. Rouback covers every stage in one connected platform.
Screen the course
Map every metre of the route. Flag hazards, assign risk scores, and generate inspection reports before race day.
Coordinate your team
Assign roles, share live positions, and communicate through a single dashboard while the race is running.
Learn from the data
Log every incident in real time, generate post-race reports, and feed insights back into the next edition.
Automatic course screening
Geo-tagged hazard points and automated risk scoring through machine learning and based on incident database.
Compliance & audit
Audit-ready federation reports.
Live coordination
Real-time marshal and medic communication.
Incident reporting
Structured forms with GPS tagging.
Team management
Roles, credentials, volunteer coordination.
Smart alerts
Dangerous obstacles, weather, incidents, missed checkpoints.
Post-race insights
Benchmark and improve each edition.
Data privacy
Encrypted, role-based access controls.
Automatic course screening
Geo-tagged hazard points and automated risk scoring through machine learning and based on incident database.
Live coordination
Real-time marshal and medic communication.
Incident reporting
Structured forms with GPS tagging.
Team management
Roles, credentials, volunteer coordination.
Smart alerts
Dangerous obstacles, weather, incidents, missed checkpoints.
Post-race insights
Benchmark and improve each edition.
Compliance & audit
Audit-ready federation reports.
Data privacy
Encrypted, role-based access controls.
Rouback gives race organisers a single platform that covers every phase of safety.
Closed-loop safety, from route to report.
The Rouback platform screens every course before the race, tracks every rider during it, and turns every incident into intelligence during and after the race.
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Screen the route
After uploading your GPX and optionally your filmed route, our AI flags all hazards before anyone rides it. It uses the intelligence of the speed and behaviours of professional cyclists in a bunch.
Built for the people who actually run race day.
Rouback isn't for spectators or sponsors. It's built for the teams that have to make safety decisions before and during the race.
Race organisers
Plan safer courses, coordinate safety crews, and meet federation requirements with less manual work.
Safety coordinators
Get a real-time overview of every safety asset on course, with structured incident capture built in.
Federations
Receive standardised safety reports from every race. Compare across events, seasons, and regions.
Teams & riders
Access course risk information ahead of race day. Know the hazards before the start line.
We've been inside professional cycling for five years.
Rouback started at Ghent University, where the cofounders were active as Tour de France race doctors and safety researchers. Built directly with the official incident databases, and spent five years studying race safety from the inside.
Steven Verstockt
CEO
Maarten Slembrouck
CTO
Joachim Taelman
CPO
Guy Van Wijmeersch
Strategy & Commercial
Built on research, validated in real races.
Rouback was born from Ghent University, where the founding team has researched cycling road safety since 2020. The platform's core technology was peer-reviewed and field-tested before a single line of product code was written.
- Built and tested against the official UCI incident databases
- Associated course screening for 100+ WorldTour race days per year
- Rouback's Risk Scale built from 5-year meta-analysis validated with 200+ interviews
- Spun out from Ghent, Belgium's public research university covering 125 diverse cycling events
We don't replace your safety expertise. We give it a better toolkit.
Join the first wave of pilot races.
We're onboarding a pilot group of races across the 2026 season. If you're a race organiser or federation looking to modernise safety, get in touch.
Frequently asked questions
Rouback is a digital platform that helps race organisers screen courses for risk, coordinate safety teams during the race, and capture every incident from start to finish — replacing spreadsheets, walkie-talkies, and gut feel with structured data.
You upload or draw the race route on a map. Rouback analyses every metre using GPS data, historical incident records, and road characteristics to flag hazards and assign risk scores — before anyone sets foot on the course.
Rouback is built in collaboration with UCI researchers and aligns with current federation reporting standards. The platform generates reports in the formats federations expect.
GPS tracking is increasingly common at WorldTour level but not yet mandatory across all race categories. Rouback works with or without live rider tracking — it focuses on course and crew safety, not athlete surveillance.
Race organisers, safety coordinators, national and international federations, and professional cycling teams. Anyone responsible for making race day safer.
Rouback was founded by researchers at Ghent University who spent five years studying cycling race safety. The platform was built on peer-reviewed research and validated against official UCI incident databases.
We're onboarding a pilot group of races for the 2026 season. Contact us through the form above, or email us at info@rouback.com to discuss your needs.
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