Dartona — Your Game. Smarter.

Dartona is a phygital algorithm — bridging the physical thrill of the game with the limitless reach of the digital world. Every dart you throw becomes a data point. Every match, a global moment. Dartona is an AI algorithm that measures darts scores through your smartphone camera with 99.9% accuracy — no extra hardware, no sensors, and no modifications to your dartboard needed.

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Real-time score tracking

Track every throw instantly, wherever you play.

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99.9% accuracy

Use your smartphone camera for precise score recognition.

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Play, compete & improve

Follow your stats globally and keep leveling up your game.


For Players

Discover how Dartona transforms your dart experience.

Why Dartona?

Dartona is the first AI algorithm that validates darts scores through a smartphone camera with 99.9% accuracy — no hardware, no sensors, no modifications needed. It connects players, platforms, and media partners in one shared ecosystem.

99.9%

Score accuracy

Real-time

Worldwide score transmission

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Hardware

No sensors, no extras needed

Start Your Own Branded League

A branded league is your own dart competition with a distinct identity — your name, your branding, and your community. It is designed for clubs, communities, ambitious players, and organizations that want to launch something uniquely theirs with minimal setup.

Dartona provides the practical foundation: an AI scoring engine for reliable match results, access to a global player network, and the app infrastructure needed to run your league smoothly. There is no hardware required and no significant upfront investment.

Full IP Ownership

You own your league — the name, the brand, and the identity. Dartona provides the infrastructure, you keep the IP.

Global Reach

Use the Dartona app to connect with players anywhere and grow beyond your local circle.

Reliable AI Scoring

Run matches on Dartona’s scoring engine for accurate, consistent results without extra hardware.

Interested in starting your own branded league? Get in touch at frankdekoste@dartona.nl


* For large-scale deployments, commercial terms, data ownership, and IP agreements are available on request and can be tailored to the scope of the partnership.

Turn Your League Into an Earning Engine

Once a branded league is live, it becomes a real revenue opportunity — for the league owner and for the media partner that facilitates it. Dartona connects both sides: league owners attract their community, media partners bring the brands, the distribution, and the ad inventory.

Revenue Sharing

League owners earn a share of media revenue generated through the Dartona ecosystem. Media partners earn on the inventory they activate.

Sponsorships via Publisher Network

A media partner with direct brand relationships can connect FMCG, sports, and entertainment sponsors directly to leagues — creating new demand for their existing sales teams.

Entry Fees & Tournament Revenue

League owners charge players to participate. Media partners can host or co-brand tournaments, adding a new content format to their platform.

Audience Growth & Engagement

Leagues build loyal, recurring audiences. For media partners, this means higher dwell time, repeat visits, and a new first-party audience segment.

Content Distribution & Ad Inventory

Livestreams, highlights, and match content flow through the media partner's distribution network — generating display and video ad revenue across web and mobile.

Ready to start your league? Contact us at frankdekoste@dartona.nl

The Ultimate Prize: Dartona Online Game

Elevate your league's rewards with the exclusive Dartona Online Game premium license – a digital trophy that offers ongoing engagement and prestige.

For the Winner

Gain a premium license to Dartona Online Game (web/mobile). Challenge friends, access advanced stats, and enjoy an ad-free experience as a champion.

For the League Owner

Sponsor your champion with a high-value digital prize. Reinforce your brand's commitment to the sport with a tangible reward, without any physical logistics.

Winners can play against AI, join global leaderboards, unlock exclusive avatars/darts, and proudly showcase their league victory badge within the game.

Ready to offer the ultimate prize? Ask us about the Dartona Online Game package for your league at frankdekoste@dartona.nl.

For Partners & Media

Why Darts. Why Now.

Darts is undergoing an unprecedented global surge, transforming from a traditional pub game into a mainstream spectacle. This isn't just growth; it's an explosion of popularity creating immense opportunities for media partners and investors.

The sport's reach is truly global and cross-generational. The PDC World Championship 2024 captivated 90,000 tickets sold out in minutes across the full tournament at Alexandra Palace, and 4.8 million viewers on Sky Sports alone — the highest non-football audience in Sky Sports history, up 143% from the previous year. Its unique demographic spans 18-55, attracting both men and women, bridging traditional pub culture with prime-time television.

The digital landscape is equally vibrant. Apps like Lidarts and Nakka already boast millions of registered users worldwide, indicating a massive appetite for digital interaction. Live darts content consistently delivers exceptional engagement, characterized by high dwell times, repeat viewing, and prolific social sharing across platforms.

4.8M

Peak Viewers

PDC World Championship 2024 final on Sky Sports — highest non-football audience ever

90K+

Tickets Sold

PDC World Championship 2024 — sold out in minutes across all sessions

Millions

App Users

Worldwide digital darts community across platforms like Lidarts and Nakka

Despite this meteoric rise, the market remains fragmented and underserved. There's no unified identity layer, no cross-platform ranking, and no shared data standard. This represents a critical window of opportunity—an infrastructure moment before one player dominates. Dartona is poised to fill this void.

The sport is ready. The audience is there. The infrastructure is missing. That's where Dartona comes in.


Sources: BBC Sport (January 2024) — PDC World Championship 2024 final peak audience 3.71M, total 4.8M viewers; Sky Sports / Broadband TV News (January 2024) — Sky Sports' highest non-football peak audience, +143% vs 2023 final; Darts News (December 2024) — 90,000 tickets sold out across all sessions, Alexandra Palace.

For Partners & Media

Explore integration, ecosystem, and revenue opportunities.

For Platform Partners & Media Publishers

The following section is intended for darts platforms, manufacturers, and media publishers interested in integrating the Dartona algorithm, exploring revenue opportunities, or licensing the technology.

Access to detailed commercial information, data models, and licensing terms is available on request. Get in touch with our team to schedule an introductory meeting.


An Open Ecosystem

Most darts platforms today offer a solid set of core features: score recording, online play, tournaments, statistics, and training modes. Some are hardware-driven, focused on automated camera scoring. Others are software- and community-driven, built around apps, gamification, and integrations. Both have strengths — and Dartona works with all of them.

Dartona's algorithm is not a competitor. It's an add-on. Any existing darts platform, hardware manufacturer, or app provider can integrate Dartona's AI validation layer directly into their current offering — without replacing what they've already built. The result: their platform gains 99.9% score accuracy, a verified player identity layer, and access to a shared cross-platform ranking. Dartona strengthens what's already there — and getting started is simpler than you think. Reach out, and we'll show you exactly how the integration works for your platform.

Platform Architecture

The strength lies in three layers — and existing platforms can choose which ones to connect to. Start with one, expand when ready.

Dartona (AI, data, and identity layer)

Validates match data via AI and creates a single verified digital identity for players, matches, and performances — the trust layer the entire ecosystem is built on.

Apps, platforms & distribution (reach layer)

Darts apps, casual gaming platforms, and publisher networks that distribute the Dartona experience to millions of players worldwide — across web, mobile, and connected devices.

Media publishers & ad-tech (commercial layer)

Activate the ecosystem commercially through display advertising, video, branded content, sponsorships, and audience monetisation — directly within existing publisher infrastructure.

Every party retains full ownership of its brand, audience, and technology. By connecting to Dartona, platforms and publishers don't give anything up — they gain a verified data layer, a new content vertical, and access to a growing cross-platform ecosystem. That's added value, without rebuilding from scratch.

Illustrative market example: a leading darts scoring platform

As an illustrative market example: bundled user experiences from a leading darts scoring and community platform, with a global community of one million recreational players, reveal a pattern that is representative of many existing platforms in the market.

Based on common user feedback in reviews and community forums:

Frequently mentioned criticisms

  • Manual score entry is error-prone and creates a structural risk of cheating in online matches
  • Recurring camera issues undermine trust in online matches, causing users to actively switch to alternative platforms
  • The rating system is perceived as unfair: players complain about undeserved poor ratings caused by frustration
  • High barrier to entry: the free version is too limited, making a subscription necessary for full use very quickly

The Dartona Offering

Dartona gives existing platforms the ability to extend their current scoring engine with independent AI validation, without replacing their existing system. This allows their community, brand, and business model to remain intact while making scorekeeping smarter and more reliable. In doing so, Dartona directly addresses the most frequently mentioned criticism points; manual input becomes less error-prone, camera issues are better handled, and a shared identity and ranking layer makes ratings more consistent and fair for all players.

For media publishers, this means reliable data and greater engagement; for players, a fairer and more seamless gameplay experience; and for manufacturers, a stronger ecosystem around their hardware. With Dartona, existing platforms not only add control and reliability, but also take a concrete step toward the darts ecosystem of the future.

A partner in a smarter ecosystem.

Revenue Model

For a leading omnichannel media and ad-tech platform, the Dartona API layer opens a new, high-engagement content vertical: live darts. By connecting via API, the platform can activate live match data, stats, highlights, and personalised challenges across its publisher network — generating new content-driven ad inventory, increasing dwell time, and unlocking revenue streams that connect directly to its existing monetisation infrastructure via API.

Ad revenue during live match moments — high-attention, brand-safe inventory with strong engagement and eCPM potential

Display and video advertising — integrated into the live darts experience across web and mobile

Sponsorships and branded challenges — direct demand from sports, entertainment, and FMCG brands

White-label branded leagues — global brands running as IP owners within the Dartona ecosystem, distributed via the publisher network

API and licensing revenue — scalable, low-marginal-cost income stream on top of existing infrastructure

First-party data and audience insights — cookieless audience segments from a highly engaged, identifiable sports community

All revenue streams are tracked cleanly through Dartona's data layer and flow directly into the partner's existing monetisation infrastructure. For the right omnichannel media partner, this is not just a content play — it's a new content-driven inventory source with network effects that compound over time.

Strategic advantage: collaborating instead of replacing

No existing SSP, DSP, or publisher infrastructure needs to be replaced or rebuilt. The Dartona API connects as a lightweight layer on top — compatible with standard API and SDK integrations — with a clear path toward programmatic as the ecosystem scales. A low-risk pilot delivers measurable added value from day one. The full commercial model, including revenue share terms, is available on request.

* Revenue distribution works on a partner model — similar to how Stripe distributes payments. Registered partners agree to terms and conditions before receiving any revenue share. This ensures full compliance with EU regulations including the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Payment Services Directive (PSD2).

FAQ & Next Steps

Everything you need to know to get started with Dartona.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to the most common questions about integration and collaboration with Dartona.

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How long does a pilot take?

Pilots are flexible and tailored to your specific needs, typically lasting 4 to 8 weeks. They are designed to deliver value quickly with minimal disruption to your existing operations.

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Do we need to replace our existing system?

No, Dartona complements your current system. Our AI validation integrates seamlessly via APIs to increase reliability without requiring you to replace your existing technology.

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What integration models are available?

We offer three flexible models: a standalone app, API validation as a double-check for scores, and full ecosystem integration, depending on your strategic objectives.

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Is the API secure and scalable?

Yes, our API is designed for high scalability and robust security. We use advanced encryption and authentication protocols to safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of your data.

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What does an integration cost?

The cost depends on the chosen integration model and the scope of implementation. After a successful pilot, we discuss a customized commercial model that aligns with your business case.

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Do we retain ownership of our data and brand?

Absolutely. You always retain full ownership and control of your data and brand identity. Dartona acts as a neutral layer that facilitates validation and connection within the ecosystem.

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Do we earn a share of media revenue as a Dartona user?

Yes. Platforms that integrate the Dartona algorithm share in the media revenue generated across the ecosystem, tracked transparently through Dartona's data layer.

Next steps

Integrating Dartona into your platform is designed to be fast, flexible, and low-risk. Whether you start with a white-label content module, an API connection for score validation, or a full omnichannel monetisation setup — the process follows a clear path that fits within your existing infrastructure and commercial model.

Ready to discuss the possibilities for your platform? Get in touch to schedule an introductory meeting.


Meet the Founders

Dartona was founded on a breakthrough: a 99.9% score accuracy algorithm that no other darts provider in the world has achieved. That milestone is not just a technical achievement — it is the foundation of trust that publishers, partners, and players place in the Dartona platform, and the core competitive advantage that makes the entire ecosystem possible.

Frank de Koste

CEO & Co-Founder

Frank is the driving force behind Dartona's vision and commercial strategy, connecting the world of darts with the digital future. He came up with the idea in 2023 and asked Brian to join forces.

Brian Gharibaan

CTO & Co-Founder

Brian leads Dartona's technology development and is the architect behind the 99.9% score accuracy algorithm — a unique achievement no other darts provider in the world has reached.

Get In Touch

Ready to explore what Dartona can do for you? We'd love to hear from you.