Vision AI · Billiards technique analysis

What do the
world's best
pool players
all do?

CueIQ watches YouTube competitive billiards footage frame by frame — analyzing stance, bridge, grip, stroke, and body mechanics across every elite player — and maps the technique patterns they all share.

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10 free videos/month
Results in under 3 minutes
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Technique frequency — live
analyzing
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Bridge
0:42
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Grip
1:15
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Stance
1:58
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Stroke
2:34
closed bridge shoulder-width stance elbow vertical open bridge head still wide stance 4 warm-up strokes high elbow
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CueIQ libraries

Three connected libraries, separated by rights and privacy.

CueIQ is being built as a verified technique intelligence system, not a generic video analyzer. Each library has a different audience, consent model, and access boundary.

01 · Verified reference

Pro Golden Technique Library

Human-reviewed examples of elite professional stroke mechanics, bridge choices, stance patterns, cue-ball control, and shot selection.

YouTube embeds and timestamp links by default Licensed or owned clips only for hosted playback Subscription-gated player and technique views
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02 · Private improvement

Personal and Coach Analysis Library

Private player workspaces for uploaded or submitted clips, AI analysis history, coach review, progress statistics, and comparison against verified pro references.

Owner and coach scoped access Consent, retention, and deletion controls Training opt-in off by default
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03 · Opt-in community

Shared Review and Community Library

A future social review layer where players can share selected clips for feedback, likes, comments, tags, and moderated public showcase.

Pending moderation before public display Report, takedown, blocking, and youth-safety controls Peer review without weakening private library boundaries
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Top techniques detected across all analyzed footage
How it works

From YouTube to insight in five steps

Enter a search query or player name. CueIQ uses public YouTube metadata, sends public video URLs to Gemini for structured technique analysis, then stores timestamps and derived detections for review and aggregation.

01
Search YouTube
Enter a query, player name, or channel. The YouTube Data API returns matching competitive billiards footage.
YouTube Data API v3
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Pass public URLs to Gemini
CueIQ does not download or rehost public YouTube footage. It sends one public YouTube URL per analysis request with configured video sampling.
Gemini direct URL video input
03
Vision AI analysis
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite analyzes the video for billiards technique categories and returns timestamped structured JSON for validation.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
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Store & index
Results are saved with timestamps, rights metadata, review fields, and schema-ready embeddings in PostgreSQL with pgvector.
PostgreSQL · pgvector
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Pattern discovery
Frequency aggregation reveals which techniques appear consistently across every player and video in your dataset.
FastAPI · Python
What the AI sees

Eight technique categories.
Every frame. Every player.

CueIQ doesn't just watch — it analyzes each frame against a structured taxonomy of professional billiards technique, flagging exact timestamps where each element appears.

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Stance
Foot positioning and width relative to shoulder, weight distribution, body angle to the shot line and table edge.
shoulder-widthwidenarrowside-on
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Bridge hand
Open vs closed bridge, rail bridge, distance from cue ball, individual finger placement and knuckle height.
closed bridgeopen bridgerail bridgemechanical
✊
Grip hand
Grip pressure zone on the cue, wrist angle at address, elbow vertical alignment throughout the stroke cycle.
wrist-down¾ gripelbow verticalloose grip
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Stroke mechanics
Backswing length, delivery speed, follow-through distance past the cue ball, and pendulum consistency across multiple strokes.
pendulumfollow-throughlevel cuebackswing
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Cue ball control
Contact point location on the cue ball — top, center, bottom, or side — revealing intended spin, English, and stun technique.
topspinbackspinside englishstun
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Pre-shot routine
Number of warm-up strokes before delivery, pause duration at back of stroke, chin-down address position and ritual consistency.
warm-up strokespausechin-downritual
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Body stillness
Head movement during and after delivery, torso sway or rotation, foot shifting — any motion that deviates from a locked address position.
head stilltorso lockedhead liftsway
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Shot selection
Shot type classification — potting, safety, break, or cannon — with difficulty rating and aggressive vs conservative tendency tracking.
potsafetybreak shotaggressive
Pattern discovery

What elite players consistently share

Aggregated across every analyzed video and player, CueIQ surfaces the technique patterns that separate competitive professionals from amateur play.

Technique frequency — competitive professionals
31 videos · 4 players · 847 detections
87%
Use a closed bridge grip
The vast majority of elite players favor the closed (loop) bridge over open bridge on standard shots, providing maximum cue stability at delivery.
79%
Take 3–5 warm-up strokes
A consistent pre-shot warm-up routine of 3 to 5 practice strokes appears in nearly 4 out of 5 elite player shot sequences.
74%
Maintain elbow vertical alignment
Keeping the grip-hand elbow directly below the shoulder, forming a perfect pendulum plane, is a near-universal marker of professional stroke mechanics.
Player profiles

Technique fingerprints for every player

As CueIQ analyzes more footage, it builds a persistent technique profile for each player — aggregated from every frame, every video, every tournament.

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The AI scouting tool
billiards has never had.

Start with 10 free videos per month. No credit card. Point CueIQ at any YouTube channel and let it build your technique database.

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