THEMANAGERS
FOR SELF-MANAGED ACTS THAT BOOK THEIR OWN SHOWS

Need a manager but can't afford one?Get a pair of 'em for pocket change.

The Managers is Doc and Gus — the booking desk and the road manager you can't afford yet, built into one record of your people, your rooms, and every gig you've played.

Invite-only while we're in alpha • Zero credit card • Start with your website

Meet the desk

Two voices, not a dashboard.

DOC — ROOMS & PEOPLE

Booking desk

Doc remembers every room, every contact, every "yeah, come back" — even the ones you forgot you had.

  • Your whole gig history in one record, so you stop losing rooms that already said yes
  • Pulls in who you've shared a bill with from your public history — "you opened for them last spring" is a warmer email than any cold pitch
  • Says "nothing on file" when that's the truth — never a confident guess about a room he doesn't actually know

GUS — GIGS & MONEY

Road ops

Gus keeps the night's money straight — what was agreed, what came in, and who gets what.

  • Tonight's gig and what it still needs before you go on — the deal written down, the players in
  • Guarantee, door split and merch, kept as separate honest numbers instead of one flattering estimate
  • Settle up in the room on your phone — what you type stays put even when the signal drops — not a scramble in the van

Built around how you actually work

One night. Out and back. A real run. Three different jobs — handled differently.

TYPE 01

One night

A single local show. The deal, the players and the settlement stay together from the day it's booked to the night you play it.

TYPE 02

Out and back

A drive to a show and home the same night. Group those dates so you see the whole stretch, not one night at a time.

TYPE 03

A real run

Multiple nights, multiple markets. Every stop's settlement lives in the same record as the last one.

The magic starts the minute you create an account

Paste your website. Watch ninety seconds happen.

A replay of the first read for a real touring act — their own site and public sources, before they'd told The Managers a single thing about themselves. Everything below is what's waiting on the other side of that.

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A real act's first ninety seconds

One real act. One website pasted in. Watch what Doc finds out about them.

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Real act, real public sources. Beat timing is scripted for this preview; in the product each beat fires when a finding actually lands.

Beyond Doc and Gus

What a self-managed act can do in it today.

Only what's built. The rest gets built with the bands in the alpha, in the order they need it.

01

Just tell Doc what's going on

How the show went, or that you just got off the phone with a venue about a date next spring — say it like you'd tell a bandmate. Doc pulls out the room, the person, the money and the follow-up; you check it before anything's saved.

02

Every date in one place

The gigs your public history already shows, plus the ones you add — booked, in date order, with what's left to settle.

03

Split the door in the room, not in the van

Guarantee, door, merch, who fronted the gas, who played. Everyone's number, and a receipt you share straight into the band's group chat.

04

Skip the cold email — you already have a warmer one

See the acts you've shared a bill with. "We opened for them last spring" beats any pitch that starts from zero.

05

Scout a town you haven't played

Doc checks what's already on file first, then searches for rooms that fit your sound. You decide what's worth keeping.

06

Get a real contact, not a guess

For a room you keep, Doc reads the room's own site for who books it and how to reach them — never an invented email, never a guessed address.

07

A fan page at your own link

Bio, photos, music, and dates in one shareable page at themanagers.live/yourband. Nothing is public until you publish it.

Pricing

Free during the alpha.

No credit card, and nothing that quietly starts billing you. We'll work out pricing with the bands actually using it, and tell you well before anything changes.

Your bandmates never pay — that's a rule, not a promo.

No commission, ever

The Managers never takes a cut of a booking. What you earn on a gig is yours, full stop.

You talk to people, not us

Doc and Gus don't send outreach on your behalf. They give you what you need to make the call yourself.

Honest when it doesn't know

"Nothing on file" beats a confident wrong answer — about a room, a contact, or your own history.