“We believe every musician deserves a reputation they can prove.”
Live music booking is broken.
If you've ever booked a live act for your bar, you know the drill. You post on Facebook. You DM ten bands. Three respond. One ghosts the night of the show. The one who shows up draws twelve people to a room that holds two hundred.
And if you're a musician? It's worse. You spend hours cold-messaging venues with no idea what they're looking for. You play a great set to a packed house and have nothing to show for it except a Venmo payment and a handshake. The next venue you pitch has no way to know you're reliable.
The entire system runs on hearsay, DMs, and gut feeling. There's no data. There's no accountability. There's no portable reputation.
Booking by DM
No contracts, no paper trail, no accountability when things go wrong.
Constant ghosting
Acts cancel. Venues don't pay. Nobody has a track record to lose.
No draw data
Venues book blind. Acts can't prove their worth. Everyone loses.
From signup to verified show in 6 steps
A transparent system where every show builds your reputation and every booking is backed by data.
Create your profile
Whether you're a venue or an act, sign up in 2 minutes. Add your genres, location, capacity, and availability. Musicians get a draw score that builds automatically from verified shows.
Post or browse open slots
Venues post open dates with genre preferences, budget ranges, and minimum draw score requirements. Musicians browse and apply to slots that match their style and market.
Review and book with data
Venues compare applicants using verified draw scores, cancellation history, and ratings from other venues. No more guessing if an act can actually bring a crowd.
Play the show
The act plays the gig. The venue tracks attendance like they normally would. Both sides know the expectations going in because the data is transparent.
Verify and rate
After the show, the venue submits attendance and rates the act. The act rates the venue. Both verified data points feed back into the registry, building reputations over time.
Grow your reputation
Every verified show strengthens your profile. Acts with strong draw scores get more bookings. Venues with good ratings attract better talent. The system rewards the people who show up.
What we stand for
Verified Data
Every draw score is based on real attendance numbers submitted and confirmed by venues. No self-reported stats, no inflated numbers.
Two-Sided Accountability
Musicians rate venues. Venues rate musicians. Both sides build a public track record that rewards reliability and professionalism.
No Booking Fees
We don't take a cut of your gig. ActRegistry is a registry, not a marketplace. Your money stays between you and the venue.
Built by Musicians
We've been on both sides of the stage. We built the tool we wished existed when we were booking shows ourselves.
Built by people who've been on both sides of the stage
We're musicians, venue owners, and builders who got tired of the broken system and decided to fix it.
AR
Founder & CEO
KM
Head of Product
JP
Lead Engineer
DW
Community Lead
SL
Design Lead
TR
Partnerships