Now in private beta

A playwright writes plays. A GigWright runs gigs.

The bandleader’s workbench — from the first call to the final payout.

No card required·Cancel anytime·Built for working pros
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Tonight
The Breakers · Mediterranean Ballroom
Call 5:30 · Downbeat 7:00 · Black tie · 7-piece
Client pays
$8,400
Band total
$5,250
Your net
$3,150
26
Apr
Private wedding · Ocean Reef
7-pc · Call 4:00 · Downbeat 6:00
Confirmed
$5,800
02
May
Birdland · New York
5-pc · Two sets · Downbeat 8:30
Confirmed
$4,200
09
May
Sailfish Club anniversary
5-pc · Call 6:00 · Downbeat 8:00
Hold
$4,400
16
May
Keystone Korner · Baltimore
5-pc · Two sets · Downbeat 8:00
Confirmed
$3,600
23
May
Blue Note · Tokyo
5-pc · Two sets · Downbeat 7:30
Confirmed
$5,400
Built by
A working bandleader playing 200+ events a year— designed around what working pros actually need at 3pm on a gig day.
v1 · Private beta · Spring 2026
01
The state of things

Booking management software stopped evolving twenty years ago.

The tools out there work, technically. But every one of them solves a different problem than the one you actually have at 3pm when a client moves the call time and you need every musician on the gig to know right now.

What you're using now

Email blasts, group texts, and a Squarespace calendar that nobody checks.

  • One-way calendar sync at best — your changes never propagate back from the musician's side.
  • SMS support is either bolted-on or missing entirely. Group texts are not a notification system.
  • Pay reconciliation lives in a spreadsheet you maintain by hand after every gig.
  • UI built around booking the gig instead of running the gig you already booked.
  • Five-figure annual revenue running through software that looks like it was last updated in 2003.
What GigWright gives you

One gig record. Three channels. Always in lockstep, always diff-aware.

  • +Two-way sync with iCloud, Google, and Outlook — every musician picks their own provider, you don't manage anything.
  • +SMS that calls out exactly what changed. “Downbeat now 8:00, was 7:30.” Not the whole message re-blasted.
  • +Pay reconciliation built in: client pays, band total, your net, per-musician pay, paid-status, payment method.
  • +Per-musician permission wall — they see only what's theirs. Never the roster, never the reconciliation.
  • +Designed like a tool you'd actually be proud to open in front of a client.
02
What's inside

Everything you need to run the gigs you've already booked.

GigWright isn't trying to be a marketplace, a CRM with ambitions, or a contracts-and-invoicing suite. It's a calendar-synced logistics spine for the working bandleader — and it does that one job exceptionally well.

Two-way calendar sync

iCloud via CalDAV, Google Calendar, Outlook — set per musician, once. Edits flow both ways. No more reconciling who's looking at what.

CalDAV · Google · Outlook

Diff-aware SMS

Change the call time and every musician gets a text that says exactly what changed. No re-sending the whole message. No alert fatigue.

Twilio · A2P 10DLC registered

Email-ready gig sheets

Personalized per musician — each sees only their own pay, their own role. One click, sent. Or downloadable as a PDF that looks like you printed it on real paper.

PDF · Per-musician

Pay reconciliation

Client payment, band total, your net. Per-musician pay with paid-status and method — cash, Venmo, Zelle, or check. Replaces the spreadsheet you've been keeping for years.

Per-gig · Per-musician · Feeds QuickBooks

One-click QuickBooks push

When every musician on a gig is marked paid, a green Push to QuickBooks button appears. Review once, click once, and the bills post to QBO — each musician as a vendor, each payout as a bill, tied to the gig. No re-keying at tax time.

QuickBooks Online · Per-gig bill push

Roster and venues

Musician directory with contact info, pay defaults, calendar preference, and notification settings — they manage their own. Plus a venue database with maps, contacts, and timezone.

Self-serve preferences

The permission wall

Optional musician login shows their own gigs, their own pay, their own calendar prefs. Never the roster, never the reconciliation, never another musician's amount. Hard wall, no leaks.

Admin · Member roles

Set lists & charts

Build a song library once, drop songs into per-gig set lists, attach PDF charts. Musicians get the full kit — set list, charts, gig sheet — in one tap on their phone.

Per-gig · PDF charts

GSA mileage & tax-ready

Your mileage and every sideman's, tracked per gig at the federal GSA rate. Year-end CSV ready for your accountant or your 1099 filings. No receipt-shoebox at tax time, for you or the band.

GSA rate · CSV export · Per-musician
03
The marquee feature

One edit. Three channels. Always in lockstep.

This is the part nobody else has built. Change a field on a gig — call time, venue, dress, personnel, anything — and within seconds it's reflected on every musician's calendar, in every musician's text inbox, and on every musician's email confirmation. Diff-aware so you only ping on what actually changed.

The sync spine

You make one change. The whole band knows in seconds.

The web app is the source of truth. Every edit becomes a revision. We compare to the last state we notified from — and only fire on fields that actually changed.

No “nothing changed but you got a text anyway” moments. No phone calls from the bass player asking which downbeat is real.

Edit on GigWright
Downbeat: 7:00 → 8:00 PM
Calendar
Event time updated on iCloud, Google, Outlook
SMS
“Downbeat now 8:00, was 7:00.”
Email
Updated gig sheet, per musician
04
The honest moat

How GigWright stacks up against what’s out there.

No fluff. Side by side, against how working bandleaders are running their gigs today.

What matters
GigWright
Older booking tools
Other modern tools
Two-way calendar sync
iCloud, Google, Outlook
One-way only
Google only
SMS notifications
Diff-aware, per musician
Email only
For booking, not updates
Per-musician permission wall
Hard, audited
All-or-nothing
Member portal
Pay reconciliation
Per-musician + paid-status
Manual
Invoicing, not reconciliation
UI built in this decade
2026
~2003
Modern, but conventional
Designed by a working bandleader
Yes
No
No
05
Pricing

One simple plan. Cancel anytime.

No tiered confusion, no per-musician fees, no nickel-and-diming on SMS. Your musicians never pay a cent — the member portal is free for them, always.

14-day free trial
Bandleader
For the working pro running their own gigs.
$20/ month
Billed monthly · Or $200/year (save $40)
  • +Unlimited gigs and venues
  • +Unlimited musicians on your roster
  • +Two-way calendar sync · iCloud, Google, Outlook
  • +SMS + email notifications, diff-aware
  • +Pay reconciliation per gig and per musician
  • +Personalized email gig sheets and PDFs
  • +Member portal access for every musician (free)
  • +500 SMS messages / month included
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For the rest
A few quick answers about what’s not on the price sheet.
For musicians on your roster
Always free.
They get the member portal, calendar sync, SMS, and email — at no cost. You're the only one paying.
Coming in Phase 1.5
Contracts & e-sign
A “Book Patrick” public inquiry page, full 1099 export, and contract e-signing — included in the same monthly price when shipped.
Annual savings
Pay yearly, save two months.
$200/year if you commit upfront. Or pay monthly with no contract.
06
Common questions

Things bandleaders ask before signing up.

Do my musicians need to pay anything?+
No. Musicians on your roster get the member portal, calendar sync, SMS, and email at no cost. You're the only one paying — they just receive the gig info, on whichever calendar and notification channel they prefer.
How does iCloud calendar sync actually work?+
Through CalDAV, Apple's calendar protocol. Each musician generates an app-specific password from appleid.apple.com, pastes it into GigWright once, and from then on every edit flows both ways. We handle all the polling, retries, and rate-limit handling. They just see their gig appear, update, or move on the iPhone calendar app they already use.
What about Google Calendar and Outlook?+
Same idea, with OAuth instead of app passwords. Each musician picks their own provider once, and GigWright routes their calendar updates to the right place. Mix and match across the band — three musicians on iCloud, two on Google, one on Outlook is fine.
What does “diff-aware SMS” actually mean?+
When you change a gig, we compare the new state to the last state we notified about. If only the call time changed, the SMS reads “Call time updated to 5:30 (was 5:00).” If you fix a typo in the venue address, no SMS fires at all — there's nothing meaningful to communicate. The result: musicians trust the texts because every text means something actually changed.
Can my musicians see each other's pay?+
No. Each musician sees only their own pay, their own gigs, their own calendar preferences. The roster, the reconciliation totals (client pays / band total / your net), and other musicians' amounts are admin-only. This is a hard wall — not a setting you have to remember to flip.
I already use another booking tool. How hard is the switch?+
Bring a CSV of your gigs and roster — we import them. Your musicians get a friendly setup link to choose their calendar provider, and that's it. Most bandleaders are running on GigWright within an afternoon.
What about contracts, invoices, and accepting payments?+
Phase 1.5 — coming after the v1 sync spine is rock solid. Contracts and e-sign, a public “Book me” inquiry page, and full 1099 export are on the roadmap and included at the same price when they ship.
Who's behind GigWright?+
Patrick Lamb — saxophonist, bandleader, and producer in Palm Beach. Built because every existing tool failed at the one thing that matters most: keeping the band in sync when something changes at 3pm on a gig day. Built using the tool live, gig after gig, before opening it up to other bandleaders.

Stop running your gigs out of email and group texts.

14-day free trial. No card required. Your musicians never pay.