vs Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets work until they don't.
We know because we ran 800 events a year on Google Sheets for 3 years. We had a clipboard for the last 2. We had an Airtable base that 4 of us edited and 8 of us couldn't read. We had a prayer.
The day spreadsheets stopped working for us was a Saturday in 2018 when we had two weddings, two corporate events, and a music festival, and we discovered at 6am that the same $4K speaker was in two different quotes. We built GigLogix that month. We deployed it for ourselves in 2019. The wedding never happened twice.
The 5 things that hurt the most.
These aren't hypothetical. Every one is a thing we did to ourselves before we built the software.
Double-bookings
Two quotes for the same speaker, same date, no conflict check. You find out when the client calls Friday at 5pm. Lost $4K on a wedding in 2018 — that was the day we started building GigLogix.
Quote turnaround is 3 days
You copy last month's quote, find/replace the client, hope you got the prices right. The client is waiting. They're going to call your competitor.
Payroll on Tuesday nights
Spreadsheet + calculator + 4 crew sheets + overtime math + 401K match + union deductions. Every Tuesday, 4 hours. After GigLogix, it's 30 minutes and a click.
No audit trail
Who changed the price? When did the gear go out? Which client got the discount? The answer is "I don't know, it's in the spreadsheet."
Crew confusion on call times
You text the call times to each tech, separately, every time. One missed text = a 30-minute show delay. GigLogix sends one text, with all call times, to the right people.
Stay on spreadsheets if…
This is the honest list. If all 5 apply, you're not our customer.
- You're under 50 events a year
- You have 1-2 people running the business
- You can hold the whole operation in your head
- You don't do venue WiFi, you don't do production company work, you only do rentals
- You're not regulated (no SOC 2, no PCI, no HIPAA)
Move to GigLogix if…
If 3 or more of these apply, the spreadsheet is costing you money.
- You're over 50 events a year
- You have 3+ people and you can't all see the same spreadsheet
- You lost a job to a double-booking, a Friday night, or a missed call time
- You want your crew to have their schedule in an app, not in a text
- You want the same tool for AV rental, crew time, marketing, and venue WiFi