Staffing, availability and call sheets for AV production.
Calld connects freelance crew with the production companies that hire them, around the unit of work that actually matters in live production — the call. Find qualified and available people, staff the position, send the call sheet, and know who has read it.
Free while we are building. The core loop works today; the rest is on its way.
Who it is for
Both sides of the call, in one account
Calld is built for the two groups that have to agree before a show happens — and for the many people who are in both.
Freelance crew
A1s, V1s, LED and lighting techs, riggers and show callers — anyone who gets hired by the day.
Keep your profile, skills, equipment familiarity and certifications in one record you own, rather than rebuilding it for every company that hires you.
Connect Google or Microsoft Calendar so producers can see when you are free, without seeing what you are doing.
Find open calls that match your skills, your market and the days you are actually available.
Get the call sheet on your phone, see when it changes, and confirm it.
Production companies
Producers, labor coordinators and production managers staffing multi-day, multi-department work.
Your company is an organization with its own members and roles, not a shared login passed around the office.
Break a production into calls and positions instead of posting one job listing per show.
Search crew by skill, market, certification and real availability, then invite or assign.
Distribute the call sheet by email, SMS or in the app, and track who received, opened and confirmed it.
One account, both roles. Many AV professionals freelance while running a production company. Calld does not ask you to pick one: a single account carries a freelance profile and membership of any number of companies, and you are never asked to choose a side before you can read anything.
How it works
How a call gets crewed
Eight steps, start to finish. Everything in the first release serves this loop, and nothing in it is there for another reason.
Step 01
Create a professional identity
Profile, skills, equipment familiarity, certifications and portfolio. One record, kept current by the person it describes.
Step 02
Establish availability
Connect an existing calendar or set availability by hand. Matching reads whether you are free, not what you are doing.
Step 03
Create the production and its calls
A production holds the show. Each call is a date, a venue and the set of positions that have to be filled for it.
Step 04
Find qualified, available crew
Filter by skill, market, certification and equipment, narrowed to the people who are actually free on the day.
Step 05
Apply or invite
Freelancers apply to open calls. Producers invite directly. Both arrive in the same place, against the same position.
Step 06
Assign the position
The position stops being a gap and becomes a named person, with the call time and the agreed rate attached.
Step 07
Distribute the call sheet
Email, SMS or on-platform. Every version is kept, so "which one did they get" has an answer rather than an argument.
Step 08
Confirm
Delivered, viewed and confirmed, tracked per person. Chase the three who have not, not the whole crew.
What we are building around
Four decisions the product is shaped by
Availability is data, not a profile field
Whether someone is free on the day is part of the match, not a note at the bottom of a profile. Calendar detail stays private: the platform needs the gap, not the reason for it.
Reputation is a relationship, not a rating
Knowing someone, recommending someone you have actually worked with, and sharing a production credit are three different claims. Calld keeps them apart, and there is no five-star score.
A production is not one job listing
Production, call, position, assignment. Multiple days, departments, roles and shifts, each staffed on its own terms and each able to change without resetting the rest.
Mobile is operational, not secondary
Crew read this in a loading dock, on a truck, backstage between doors. Every workflow that matters on a show day works on a phone.
Status
Calld is in development
The loop above is what is being built first, and it is what an account gets you today. The rest of this page describes where it is going; this section is the part that says how far along it actually is.
If you staff crew, or work as crew, we would rather hear how you do it now than guess at it. What did your last show week actually look like — the spreadsheet, the group chat, the call sheet that went out twice?
