NeverStopMoving365 vs 9Round

Two franchise systems, side by side. For a software vendor, they are not the same opportunity.

More open target
NeverStopMoving365
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Brand A gives you a real, if shrinking, addressable market: 141 franchised units with a known investment range ($160K–$390K) and a 6% royalty that signals operators have recurring revenue to protect. That’s enough to model a TAM, estimate software budgets, and build a territory plan. Brand B is a ghost—zero unit data, no investment range, no procurement model. You can’t sell into a total information vacuum, so Brand A wins on terrain and budget simply by being legible.

The meaningful tradeoff is timing. 9Round’s –29% unit growth means you’re chasing a contracting base; every churned location shrinks your renewal pool and forces you to win more new deals just to stay flat. The approved-supplier procurement model also means you’ll need to get corporate buy-in, which lengthens sales cycles. But those are manageable friction points compared to NeverStopMoving365, where you have no TAM, no ICP, and no way to prioritize outreach. A declining known market beats an invisible one every time.

Verdict: 9Round is the only viable target right now—its shrinking footprint is a risk you can price into your pipeline, while NeverStopMoving365 offers nothing to sell against.

fitness
NeverStopMoving365
fitness
9Round
Total units
142
Franchised units
141
Unit growth YoY
-29.146%
Average unit revenue (AUV)
Royalty
6%
Ad fund
2%
Initial franchise fee
$20K
Investment range (low)
$160K
Investment range (high)
$390K
Procurement model
Approved supplier
FDD fiscal year
2026
2026
Filing freshness
CURRENT
CURRENT

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