The Nightshift
Quotes that used to take two weeks, done overnight.
A crew of digital specialists who work the hours the job used to eat, quietly, inside the systems your team already uses.
Seeking a founding client
An enquiry goes in, and a finished quote comes out.
We built it because the diagnosis pointed here, at a real bottleneck in a real industry.
In live events, a request for quote arrives at 2am and touches nine departments before anyone can put a number on it. Every department head has to be chased. Every spec has to be reconciled against every other spec. Two weeks later, a quote goes out, and by then the client has often asked someone else too.
The Nightshift is a crew of digital specialists, one per department. Each one writes its own spec against real domain knowledge and live kit availability. A department that is not needed says so, rather than padding the job. Then their specs are reconciled, cross-department conflicts are caught, the whole thing is priced, and a human signs it off.
Intelligent, and quiet.
The Nightshift is a crew that works a shift. There is no chat window to open and no new interface for your team to learn. It lives in the background of the systems you already use, and it announces itself only when a person needs to make a decision.
It holds real domain knowledge and it exercises judgment. It reconciles specs that contradict each other, it flags the consequences of a change before you approve it, and it declines work it cannot price responsibly. Your department heads reply to an email in plain English and it revises exactly what was asked.
The work happens overnight, in the hours the job used to eat. In the morning there is a draft waiting, and a person decides what happens to it.
Five steps, with four human gates.
Triage
The enquiry is read and assessed: is this a real job, is it complete, is it urgent? A human project manager decides what happens next: quote it, ask for more information, or decline.
The crew specs it
Each department's digital specialist writes its own scope against the brief, the catalogue and live availability. They work in parallel, which is where the two weeks goes.
Conflicts get caught
The specs are reconciled against each other. Three departments each assuming the same rigging points can carry their load is the kind of thing that surfaces here, rather than on site.
Your department heads approve
Each human head gets a card by email: approve, or ask for changes in plain English. "Remove the tent for the crew" is a complete instruction. The revision comes back with any consequences flagged.
Priced, then signed off
Line items, hire tiers, contingency, overhead, VAT, and a margin check. The project manager approves the final number. Only then does anything reach the client.
Four things, in this order
What it does not do.
It does not quote on its own. A human approves every client-facing step. That is deliberate, and it is the part we would never remove.
It does not replace your department heads. It writes the first draft so they review instead of assemble. The expertise stays where it was; the typing goes away.
It refuses work. Given a job with no confirmed dates or undefined scope, it declines to release it for costing and lists exactly why, including when the stated budget looks too thin to hold a margin.
It is running in live testing, and we are looking for a founding client. We would rather build the first one properly, alongside a team who wants it, than sell it widely before it has earned that.
We are looking for the first one.
If you build shows, tours, installations or productions and quoting is eating your week, we would like to hear about it. The founding client shapes how this works, gets our full attention, and keeps what we build together.
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