01 — The Problem
Every Tool in This Space Got Faster at Building the Wrong Document.
Templates, drag-and-drop builders, auto-routing — they all solve the same problem: how fast can you produce a PDF. None of them solve what happens the second something changes after you hit export. PatchMap isn't a faster document. It's a live one.
02 — The Problem
One QR Code on the Rack. Ninety Days Later, Still Right.
Print it once. Tape it to the case. Anyone loading in — your crew, the house tech who's never seen this show, or local/daily labor — opens it once and leaves it open. Every change you make from the tour bus pushes live, with a timestamp showing exactly when it last updated. No rescanning needed.
03 — The Problem
Your Patch, Wireless, and Dante Don't Live in the Same World.
Three documents, three windows, cross-referenced at showtime and hoping nothing's out of sync. PatchMap unifies all three under one source of truth — accessible by anyone on the crew, live on their own device.
04 — The Problem
Signal Flow Shouldn't Be Verbal and Lossy.
A channel issue gets shouted over comms — you mentally add it to your list. Maybe it gets fixed, maybe it gets forgotten. But good luck remembering all the details before the next show. PatchMap gives the whole crew one common source of truth everyone can look at, working off the same document that's constantly updating. Every user — stage tech, monitor engineer, musician, or front of house — can flag a specific issue on a specific channel, and everyone has the entire signal flow in their hands. Empower your crew to resolve issues with tighter communication, faster than ever, with Live Room.
05 — The Problem
It Walked Out With Your Last Engineer.
Every fix and pattern from the run — gone the moment the person holding it moves on. Now PatchMap collects the show data as you work, so the next show, the next season, the next tour starts knowing the lessons from last time. Introducing Show Intelligence — a record of what was never trackable before. You couldn't measure any of this. Now you can.
Smart Import
Import the Roster. Patch Nothing Until You Say So.
Drop a CSV, an Excel sheet, or a PDF — Smart Import reads the gear inside it, understands the position and the channel you're placing it in, so you don't have to repatch anything. It also checks the gear you already have listed and asks whether you want to add it to your locker or your rental inventory — one-step import.
It builds a staging shelf with the exact nodes it found, correctly counted, named the way you already had them.
Most "smart importers" populate a list but require you to re-patch everything by hand. We're anti-data entry.
If your string section starts at channel 21, PatchMap waits for channel 21 to become available and pages itself there automatically. There's no need to patch things twice — that would make it a dumb importer.
Show Chain
Press Next Show. Everything Comes With You.
Next stop on the tour. Next week's date. Next Sunday. Hit Instance Forward and PatchMap carries the show ahead — no copy-paste, no erasing this week's data to make room for next week's. Every concurrent show becomes part of a chain, and PatchMap quietly keeps what came before it — so you never have to wonder what changed since last month. Not a folder of old PDFs you have to dig through and compare eye to eye. PatchMap tells you what's different.
Your whole history of shows lives in your account, not on a laptop that can get left in a case. Log in from any computer — any venue, it's the same data.
Show Chain starts at Plus