Herding Cats

For touring dance competitions

26 weekends.Countless events.Never-ending logistics.One place to run it all.

Staffing, flights, hotels, rooming, registration, inventory — and the P&L behind every event. One AI-powered system of record, from the first venue hold to the final invoice.

  • Free for up to 5 events
  • No card required
  • Set up in an afternoon
  • Staffing & travel
  • Rooming & hotels
  • Registration & payments
  • Per-event P&L
  • Financial dashboards & AI insights
  • Inventory & QR load-outs

This weekend

Oct 17–18

Nashville Fall Classic

  • Staff

    14 of 14 confirmed

  • Hotel

    12 rooms · Gaylord Opryland

  • Truck

    On schedule · docks 6:00 AM

  • Flights

    13 booked · 1 needs you

  • P&L

    $48.2k in · margin +34%

One thing needs you

Priya's Sunday flight home isn't booked — fares are climbing.

Illustrative demo — scripted numbers, real workflow.

The problem

Nine tools, one company, no source of truth.

Staffing in a spreadsheet, travel in an inbox, registration at a vendor, receipts in a folder someone will open in May. Nothing connected, nowhere for institutional knowledge to live — and no idea what any of it actually cost.

Staff availability — FALL 2026.xlsx

Last edited Sept 3. Is it still true?

TAW_Nashville_v7_FINAL_FINAL.docx

v6 is still in the group text

Delta Air Lines

9:14 AM

Your eTicket receipt — BNA ✈ SDF

Confirmation HXK9TR · Passenger 1 of 2…

17 emails, 3 airlines, one inbox

Q3 P&L — FINAL (Kelsey's copy).xlsx

Three copies. Three different totals.

Rooming list.xlsx

Who can't room with a judge?

Opryland invoice — scan_0043.pdf

Actuals live in a shoebox

Sat, Oct 18 at 11:52 PM

backdrop frame cracked at load out. zip tied it for now but it will NOT survive Louisville
did anyone write that down??
it's in this text 😅

Nobody wrote it down

Day rates

Kelsey's doc. Kelsey is on a plane.

Gaylord Opryland Events

Tue

RE: RE: FW: room block??

Per my last email, the rate we can hold is…

The rate is in message 4 of 9

Gaylord Opryland

mobile

Yesterday at 4:12 PM

0:00-0:47

Transcription

“Hi this is Brandi with the room block the cutoff for your rate is um actually the fif— no sorry the…”

The cutoff date is in here somewhere

Kelsey · mobile

Outgoing · 7:23

i

Whatever got decided lives in that call

FREIGHT ZONES

SE → Ray

Midwest → ???

ask Kelsey!!

Redrawn every August, from memory

Nashville Fall Classic

Good to go
Timeline
Brief 7:45 · Load-in 6:00 · Doors 8:30
Roster
14 staff · 3 judges · all confirmed
Travel
9 flights booked · 2 driving · 1 gap flagged
Hotel
Gaylord Opryland · 12 rooms · $189/night
Freight
Zone: Southeast · Ray Whitlock · dock 6:00 AM
Finance
Revenue $48.2k · Costs $31.9k · Margin +34%

AI insight

Louisville registrations are pacing 12% behind last year — flagged six weeks out, not after.

One record per weekend. Everyone sees the same one — and the numbers reconcile.

Illustrative demo — scripted numbers, real workflow.

How it works

Costs get captured where the work already happens.

Nobody codes an expense. You book the hotel block, assign the staffer, log the freight leg, count the drawer at close — and every one of those acts writes its own line, coded to the event and the brand it belongs to.

  • Block 12 rooms at the Gaylord

    Lodging · Nashville(4,800)
  • Assign Marcus to Saturday + Sunday

    Payroll · Nashville(600)
  • Log the Columbus freight leg

    Freight · Columbus(2,150)
  • Count the merch drawer at close

    Merch sales · Nashville24,380

Nashville Fall Classic · P&L current before the truck is unpacked

Nobody coded an expense. Nobody typed a journal entry.

Illustrative demo — scripted numbers, real workflow.

P&L · builds itself

Nashville Fall Classic

The math noticed 3 things
  • Registration payments

    $100,432 from 42 studios − $2,006 refunds

    98,426
  • Merchandise sales

    $24,380 sales − $8,915 COGS

    15,465
  • Concessions

    $4,120 sales − $1,485 COGS

    2,635
  • Travel

    Flights $11,304 + cars & rideshares $3,024

    (14,328)
  • Venue

    Signed contract · $8,000 hall + $1,500 AV

    (9,500)
  • PayrollEstimated

    17 staff × day rates × 3 event days

    (10,200)

Net · margin 64%

$82,498

A scripted demo with scripted numbers — but this is the shape: operations write the lines, merch counts and receipts fill in the rest, and the report is ready before the truck is unpacked.

The proof

Did Boise actually make money?

Every event gets a real report — registration net of refunds, travel, venue, payroll, merch COGS — recomputed from the operations that produced it. Not a reconciliation project in May.

  • Budgets sit under the same numbers, so an overrun gets flagged the week it happens — not at close.
  • Estimates stay labeled estimates until the booking or the receipt replaces them.
  • Multiple touring brands roll up into one season table, and drill back down to the event tab.

When it goes wrong

It's Thursday night.A judge just canceled.

Managing fallout has never been easier. With automated company playbooks, your action plan is one click away — and every dollar it moves lands on the event's report.

Every scenario runs a real plan. Try one →

Something changed?

What happened?

Pick one. Every option below is a real scenario with a real plan behind it.

Assistant

Nashville Fall Classic · Oct 17–18

Meow can I help? I'm looking at the Nashville Fall Classic — ask me anything about it.
Ask about this event…

AI assistant

Ask the season a question

It reads your rosters, venues, timelines, and numbers — not a chatbot with your logo on it.

  • It proposes, you approve

    Every change is a card. Nothing happens without your OK.

  • Some things stay human

    Event dates and status are off-limits to it, always.

  • Everyone gets their own

    Staff see their weekends. Drivers see their runs.

Try the chips below — every reply is scripted from real product behavior.

Getting started

Zero to season planning in an afternoon.

No sales call. No setup fee. Three steps.

1

Drop in your staff list

Import from wherever you store it now — columns map themselves, you just review.

2

Add your season

Effortlessly import your events — scan your website, upload a doc, or add them manually.

3

Run AI staffing & witness the magic

With a single click, AI generates the roster using your logic and all available information.

Switching

Don't rebuild your season. Upload it.

Coming from another platform — or a folder of spreadsheets? Rooming lists, travel worksheets, schedules, rosters: Herding Cats reads the documents you already have and builds your workspace from them.

Your old documents

Any format

Rooming list — Spring 2026.xlsx

Merged cells and all

Season schedule v4 FINAL(2).docx

The real one, promise

Judge contracts.pdf

Scanned, slightly crooked

Travel worksheet — Kelsey's copy.xlsx

Formulas nobody remembers

reads them

Found in your files

26 events, February through July

43 people — staff, judges, drivers

12 hotel blocks with rates

31 flight itineraries

It all lands on one review screen — nothing saves without your OK.

you approve

Your workspace

Moved in

Season

26 events on the calendar

Roster

43 people, roles assigned

Hotels

12 blocks linked to weekends

Travel

31 itineraries matched to people

1Bring your old documents2Herding Cats reads them3Your workspace, already set up
Start free — up to 5 events

Season schedules, itineraries, rosters, and contracts import today — and the list keeps growing. Your originals stay yours.

On the roadmap

The rest of the competition business, already under construction.

Competition-day tools — scoring, tabulation, judging, and routine scheduling — are in active development. They'll live in the same platform, so the entire competition business runs in one place.

Bad news lands in email. Soon it'll land here too.

We're building integrations that will enable our AI to watch your inbox and chat channels — then proactively surface the problem before you know it exists.

Inbox · Kelsey Moore

Tue 9:12 PM

Gaylord Opryland · Block confirmation

12 rooms held through Oct 10…

Priya Anand · Re: This weekend

“I'm so sorry for the short notice — there's been a family emergency and I won't be able to make Nashville…”

Delta · Your Saturday itinerary

Confirmation #GH42XR…

Herding Cats · Nashville Fall Classic

Watching for anything that affects this weekend…

1Bad news lands in email or chat2Herding Cats AI identifies it instantly3The resolution is one click away
SlackMicrosoft TeamsGoogle CalendarGmailOutlookIn development — nothing changes on its own; the insight opens the same plan a human would.

Before you move a season in

Walled off & secure

Your records never mix with another company's. Your proprietary data stays yours.

Roles match the org chart

Staff, truck drivers & coordinators each see only what they need to get their job done.

Proactive AI that never goes feral

Every change suggested by our AI agent requires explicit human approval.

Start your season

Your whole season, on one system

Start free with up to 5 events. Nothing to install, nobody to call.

  • Free for up to 5 events
  • No card required
  • Cancel any time