Live Event Operations

Ghostlight

The system that stays on after everyone else goes home.

Budget, schedule, crew, logistics and documents for a live production, held in one place, updated in real time, and visible to exactly who's supposed to see it.

What it is

One production. One live record.

Most shows are still run out of a dozen disconnected files — a budget spreadsheet nobody's sure is current, a crew list in three versions, a schedule that gets re-sent every time a call time moves, a drawing set nobody can confirm is the latest issue.

Ghostlight replaces the pile with a single system of record. Every department works from the same live data, scoped to what their role should see — so the production manager, the technical director, the client, and the crew member checking tomorrow's call time are all looking at the same show, not five different copies of it.

07Working Modules
05Stakeholder Access Levels
Spreadsheet Versions, Retired
The Platform

Seven modules.
One register.

Every part of the production paperwork, rebuilt as a live, shared system instead of a folder of files.

01 / BUDGET£

Budget & Purchase Orders

A live budget with sectioned line items, unit rates, quantities and markups across multiple currencies. Crew labour costs post automatically from the crew sheet, and a six-step purchase order wizard commits spend straight back to the budget as it's raised, against a shared supplier database.

02 / SCHEDULE

Schedule

The run of show, built day by day with sticky navigation between them. Inline editing, department filters, bulk edits and Excel import keep everyone working from the same version of the day — no more asking which schedule is current.

03 / CREW

Crew Management & Onsite Registration

Crew sheets carry rates, departments, dates and travel, editable in bulk or imported from Excel. A public, no-login form lets external suppliers and drivers book their own delivery or load-in slot directly into the site's master schedule.

04 / LODGING

Accommodation Lists

Rooms, dates and nightly costs sit alongside every crew member's other details and roll into the daily cost totals automatically — one list instead of a hotel spreadsheet that has to be kept in sync by hand.

05 / FILES

File Management

A version-controlled library for every project file, with a full history behind each one. Upload a new revision of a slide deck and Ghostlight detects what actually changed between versions, without anyone having to say so.

06 / DRAWINGS

Drawing Issue Sheets

A formal document register for plans and drawings, with full version history behind every sheet. Issue a transmittal to a distribution group and recipients get a secure, time-limited download link — no account required on their end.

07 / STATUS

Status Deck Analysis

Import an updated status deck and Ghostlight reads it slide by slide, surfacing what changed as a tracked, assignable list of design updates and outstanding issues — with a before/after view of exactly what moved.

Under the Hood

Built like the paperwork it replaces.

Precise, and seen only by the people it's meant for — enforced where the data lives, not just in what the interface shows.

Database
PostgreSQL, with row-level security policies enforced on every table — access is controlled at the data layer, not left to the front end to hide what it shouldn't show.
Access Scope
Every record is scoped to the project and role that touched it. There's no shared "everyone" table sitting underneath the interface.
Internal Files
Files marked internal are walled off with a restrictive policy at the database level, so they stay out of reach even if a link or a view is shared by mistake.
Audit
Logins and sessions are tracked per project, so it's always possible to see who's been in the numbers, and when.
Encryption
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, on the same infrastructure used to run production databases at scale.
External Sharing
Transmittals go out as expiring, single-purpose links rather than a forwarded folder — so a drawing issue reaches exactly the recipient it was meant for, on a clock.
Who Sees What

Five roles.
The same show, at the right resolution.

Not everyone attached to a production needs the same view of it. Ghostlight scopes what a person can see and change by role, per project.

01Admin
Full control across every project in the workspace, including workspace-level settings and who else gets access.
02Owner
Full control of a single project — budget, schedule, crew and documents — plus the ability to grant and change access on it.
03Manager
Day-to-day control of the modules they run — building the schedule, managing crew, issuing drawings — without the project's access controls.
04Stakeholder
Full visibility into progress, numbers and documents to stay current on the production, without edit rights over any of it.
05Crew
Their own schedule, call times and details — nothing of the budget or the planning behind it.
Beyond the five roles: distribution groups and transmittals reach people who never get a login at all — a client, a supplier, a driver — through a scoped, time-limited link that shows exactly the document or delivery slot they need, and nothing else.
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The show comes down every night.
The record doesn't.

See Ghostlight running on a real production, or bring your current spreadsheets and we'll show you what they look like inside it.