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”.
COMING
JUNE
2026
Excel 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.
Built-in venue lookup.
One click pulls venue photos and a map pin straight into your event — no more chasing assets from the venue the morning of the show.
Run-of-show Stagetimer.
The director calls the show in real time. Start, pause, and advance segments with one tap — every screen in the building stays in sync. Speakers see exactly how much time they have left. No hand signals from the wings.
Rapid deployment.
Sign up at 10:00. Show running at 10:05. Create your event, drop in your sessions, invite the crew — you are live. No onboarding call, no setup fee, no consultant required.
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.
See it in action
Two minutes from sign-up to your first event.
Watch the whole signup, password, and workspace setup flow. No edits. No skips. This is exactly what your trial looks like.
Signing up for Overture
Signing up for Overture
Real product, no slideshow.
No autoplay, no audio surprises.
Built by producers who run real shows.
Pricing
Four plans. Annual. No seat math.
Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial — full product, full plan quota, cancel anytime before day 8. Pick the plan that fits and you won't be charged until the trial ends. 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
- Duplicate any past event — clone last year’s show as a starting point
- Priority email support
Agency
For agencies & broadcasters
$3,999
/ year
50 events / year
- Everything in Pro
- Up to 50 created events per year
- Dedicated onboarding session
Enterprise
Tailored to how your team actually runs shows.
Single Sign-On, white-label branding, and a deployment sized to your production volume.
- Single Sign-On Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, or any SAML 2.0 / OIDC provider.
- White-label branding Your logo, colors, and domain on crew sheets and printable PDFs.
- Custom event quotas Sized to your real production volume — no artificial caps.
- Dedicated support Named support contact, invoiced billing, and custom integrations.
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?’
Duplicate last year’s event in one click.
Same client, same venue, new dates? Clone the run of show, retime the anchors, and you’re 80% of the way to a finished rundown before lunch.
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.
Four permission levels, enforced server-side.
Owner, Producer, Crew, Viewer. The producer edits, the crew checks the rundown, the client watches read-only — nobody overwrites somebody else’s call.
Rows you can shuffle without breaking the show.
Drag to reorder, insert anywhere, delete anything — the time math reflows automatically. No formula columns to repair, no broken references to chase.
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, the same second.
Real-time sync. Your stage manager moves a cue in the wings; you see it at the production table in under a second. Presence dots show who else is in the run of show with you.
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.
Print or PDF, anytime.
One-click crew sheets and run-of-show pages export as clean, branded PDFs. Hand a copy to anyone who still likes paper.
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.
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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.
What do I get during the 7-day free trial?
The full version of whatever plan you pick. Sign up for Basic and you get 1 event. Sign up for Pro and you get 5. Sign up for Agency and you get 50. No artificial cap, no crippled trial mode — same product your paid subscription unlocks. When day 7 ends, your card is charged for the year and nothing else changes. Cancel in one click anytime before day 8 and you won't be charged.
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.
Do I have to use printed sheets to run a show?
No. Overture has beautiful print capabilities with several layout options — but the real magic is the Showtime button above any session. Click it and BAM: you’re ready to run the show from a computer, an iPad, or a phone. Pause, jump back, advance segments — full control in your hands. No more clipboards and flashlights in a dark room. Showtime ships with a built-in dark mode that makes seeing and working with Overture in low light a breeze.
Is there a dark mode?
Yes — three of them. Click the Sun, Monitor, or Moon icons in the top toolbar to switch between Light, Grey, and Dark. Your choice is remembered per browser. Here’s the same run-of-show in each mode:
For a full tour of every toolbar icon, see What every toolbar icon does.
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?
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