Tabbed sessions per day.
One file, one event. Day 1, Day 2, breakouts, rehearsals — each on its own tab. No more “v17_FINAL_use-this-one.xlsx”.
Run of Show Manager
Your spreadsheet is not a stage manager.
Overture replaces the brittle Excel run-of-show with a real tool. Built for the producers, stage managers, and crew who keep general sessions on time.
If this sounds familiar
The Excel run-of-show is held together with hope.
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Cascading formulas that explode at 5pm.
Every cell time references the cell above it. Insert a row, add three minutes — and the sound check at 6:00 pm now starts at 11 pm. Half your timing is wrong and you don’t know which half.
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Crew sheets that’re wrong by lunch.
Print at 11. Update the deck at 11:30. Hand a stale rundown to lighting, audio, and video — three teams running three different versions of your show. Welcome to merge conflicts in real life.
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Follow-ups buried in cell comments.
“Need captions confirmed,” written in a yellow comment in cell K47. Found by no one. Caught by the client. The kind of detail that sinks an otherwise tight show.
What Overture does
A run-of-show tool that knows it’s a run-of-show tool.
Drag-and-drop rows.
Move a segment, push everything down. Times re-flow automatically. The 09:00 keynote stays 09:00 even when the 08:30 walk-in grows by two minutes.
Follow-up flags that get followed up.
Flag any row — captions, mic check, talent confirm. They surface on a single follow-up view and stay flagged until you clear them.
Landscape crew sheets.
One PDF per discipline — audio, lighting, video, comms. Reads at the FOH table, prints at the door, stays consistent across roles.
Time math that actually works.
Durations, breaks, and segments compute themselves. The end-of-day clock is always correct. So is “how long is the lunch I just ate”.
One event, the whole crew.
Producers, stage managers, ATL, content, AV. Invite by email — they sign in, everyone sees the same source of truth.
Who it’s for
Built for the people who walk the room.
Overture is for corporate event producers running general sessions for 700 to 7,000 people. The folks behind annual sales kickoffs, customer summits, all-hands, partner conferences, and product launches.
- Producers who own the show file and the show itself.
- Stage managers who call the cues at the FOH table.
- Content leads who track every speaker, video, and slide.
- AV teams who need a rundown they can read in the dark.
- Agencies running ten of these per year.
Pricing
Three plans. Annual. No seat math.
Every plan includes the full Run of Show Manager, unlimited team members per event, PDF crew sheets, and email-driven invites. Price scales with how many events you run, not how many people are on your crew.
Basic
For one-off productions
$399
/ year
1 event
- Full Run of Show Manager
- Unlimited team members on the event
- PDF crew sheets
- Email-driven invites
Pro
For working producers
$1,299
/ year
5 events / year
- Everything in Basic
- Up to 5 created events per year
- Re-use templates across events
- Priority email support
Enterprise
For agencies & broadcasters
$3,999
/ year
50 events / year
- Everything in Pro
- Up to 50 created events per year
- Dedicated onboarding session
- Phone + Slack support
All plans billed annually. Events count permanently on creation. Got a promo code? Apply it at checkout. Not sure which plan fits? Email us.
Why teams switch
25 reasons your next event runs better.
Specific, opinionated, and built from the spreadsheets that almost ruined our weekends.
01Speed & confidence on show day
The 09:00 keynote stays 09:00.
Move anything, push anything, and locked anchor times don’t drift. The show calls itself.
No more ‘is this the latest file?’
One URL, one source of truth. Everyone sees what you see — including the typo you fixed three minutes ago.
Print at 09:55 with confidence.
Crew sheets are landscape, paginated, and time-stamped. The 10:00 doors open with paper in hand.
Two-tap follow-up flags.
See an issue on row 47? Flag it, it surfaces on the follow-up tab. No sticky notes, no ‘whose mic was it?’
The clock always knows when the day ends.
You can stop doing time math in your head between vendor calls.
02Production polish
Branded run-of-show, free.
Drop your client’s logo, render a PDF that looks like their agency made it. They’ll think you hired a designer.
No more ‘Calibri 8pt to make it fit’.
Type and width are designed for the FOH table at arm’s reach. Pages don’t compress, columns don’t shrink.
Same file, every discipline.
Audio, lighting, video, comms — each crew gets the rows they care about. One source. Multiple views.
Cue numbers that don’t renumber on you.
Insert a row between cue 12 and 13? Cue 13 doesn’t suddenly become 14. Sanity preserved.
Speaker names that don’t break the layout.
Three names with credentials? Fits. One person with a 200-word bio? Still fits. The design absorbs it.
03Team & client trust
Invite a producer by email in five seconds.
They get a link, they sign in, they’re editing. No license activations, no IT tickets.
Clients can read it without breaking it.
Read-only role. Your AVP can show their CMO the run of show. The CMO cannot ‘fix’ anything.
Edits show up live — across browsers, across rooms.
Your stage manager in rehearsal and you at the production table see the same thing, the same second.
One license, every crew member.
No per-seat math, no ‘who has the file open’. Per-event pricing means the whole team gets in for free.
Audit trail without the surveillance vibe.
Who changed what, when, with one click. Useful for ‘why is doors at 9:15 now?’ — not performance reviews.
04Money & sanity
Onboarding a new producer takes one afternoon.
Your senior trained on Excel for years. The new hire trains on Overture by lunch. Less hand-holding, fewer mistakes.
No subscription you forgot to cancel.
Per-event credits. Use them when you have a show. Don’t pay when you don’t.
PDFs that don’t need Acrobat Pro.
Open in any browser, print on any printer. The lighting director’s 2015 ThinkPad will be fine.
No vendor lock-in panic.
Export every event to JSON or CSV anytime. Your data is your data — even if you never come back.
A real human answers support emails.
Built and run by event producers. Not a ‘we’ve received your ticket’ bot. Replies usually inside the day.
05Things you didn’t know you needed
A run-of-show that survives the rehearsal call.
Forty-seven edits in fifteen minutes, all autosaved, all undoable. No file corruption, no crash on Ctrl+S.
Built for the day you have three events at once.
Switch organizations, switch events, switch tabs. The mental load doesn’t multiply with the workload.
Time zones that don’t ambush you.
Hosting an event in Dallas from your couch in Seattle? Times stay anchored to the venue. Always.
The walk-in song stays in the walk-in row.
Notes, links, references — they live with the segment, not in a separate doc you’ll lose by Tuesday.
You stop dreading Sunday-night prep.
The hardest part of an event becomes 20 minutes on Sunday afternoon. Your weekend comes back.
Still on Excel? Try Overture.
FAQ
Practical questions, practical answers.
Is this Excel with a fresh coat of paint?
No. Overture is a purpose-built run-of-show editor — drag-and-drop rows, automatic time math, tabbed sessions per day, follow-up flags, and PDF crew sheets. The only thing it shares with Excel is the muscle memory you walked in with.
What counts as an “event”?
One conference, summit, kickoff, or production. Multi-day shows count as one event. You build it, run it, archive it. Events count permanently on creation, so the Basic plan is one event total.
Can I invite my whole crew?
Yes — every plan includes unlimited team members per event. Invite by email; they sign in and see the same source of truth. There is no per-seat charge.
Do you support promo codes?
Yes. If you have a launch code, partner code, or industry rate, drop it in at Stripe Checkout. The price updates before you pay.
Who’s behind it?
Overture is built by working corporate event producers, in collaboration with Digital Face Media. We make this because we needed it. The roadmap is shaped by producers who run general sessions for a living.
Ready to retire the spreadsheet?
Pick a plan. Run your next show on something built for it.
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