Built for Live Music
Created by people who've managed bands, settled shows, loaded vans, and lived on both sides of the deal.
Years spent in Seattle clubs three nights a week - watching shows, working doors, tour managing bands, booking acts, building websites for artists who couldn't afford a team. We saw the best musicians in the city struggle to manage themselves off stage. We watched brilliant venue operators settle shows on legal pads at 2 AM after twelve-hour shifts - all for the love of the scene. We saw how much raw talent and hard work gets lost to bad tools, scattered emails, and spreadsheets that don't talk to each other.
We were just teens. Korn and Deftones at The Moore Theater in Seattle, 1996. That was the night. The one that rewired everything. Where live music stopped being something we knew existed but had never experienced and became something we wanted to be a part of.
Everyone in this industry has a night like that. The show that made it personal. That's why we're all here - the rooms, the artists, the passion. One single show can change a life.
We built Roadi for the people we came up with.
- The independent venue owners keeping the lights on.
- The managers juggling three artists with no safety net.
- The booking agents chasing deposits they shouldn't have to chase.
- The promoters carrying every dollar of risk.
- The production managers making the show happen while everyone else negotiates the deal.
- The bands splitting $80 four ways and calling it a good night.
This industry has been underserved by technology for decades. The tools that exist were built for corporations, not for the people actually running shows. Roadi exists to change that - to bring honesty, simplicity, and a single source of truth to every deal, every settlement, every show.
We're not built like a corporation, and we don't intend to be. No layers of bureaucracy. No board of directors waving charts full of numbers that don't mean anything to the people using the product. We're a small team moving fast, building what matters, and shipping at a pace that would make a legacy software company uncomfortable. We listen to our customers because our customers define what Roadi becomes. You have a feature idea? Let's build it. It really is that simple.
Roadi is yours. We're just the ones writing the code.
Want to help us build this? Join the founding operators.