One problem, end to end.
Stagewise · every decision mine · design, code, data, day-of support
One problem, end to end.
Stagewise · every decision mine · design, code, data, day-of support
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The printed program is frozen. The event never is.
Lineups change at 5pm. The house is dark. The poster’s already printed. Parents ask the same question four hundred times.
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01 · One app per event, built by hand
Fully branded program apps — Starstruck, Dance Fierce, Surge. Each rebuilt from the last: new brand, new data, same me.
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The pivot · in writing · May 2026
…create a platform that will do all of this work for the event owner without me having to manually build it.
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02 · The organizer platform
Build from scratch or import — the organizer does in an hour what took me a weekend.
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Live in production
The Dance Academy Spring Concert 2026 · events.stagewise.dance — a real audience, a real dark theater.
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Posters print before schedules final.
Dynamic QR proxy — the code on the door can be re-pointed after it’s printed.
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03 · Adjudication engine
Multi-tenant scoring — configurable rubrics, award thresholds, and a routine pipeline: Draft → Queued → On Deck → On Stage → Scored → Approved → Published.
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Venue wifi always dies. So scoring never touches the network.
Offline-first PWA · all day-of operations on local storage · sync when the network returns.
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Current build: full competition platform — studio registration, organizer roles, national-event scale.
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Coaching.com, contract work: three user types, one system.
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Symplr, enterprise healthcare: established and led the design system in partnership with the existing team.