Tour Manager
Auto-generate venue advance sheets from tech pack PDFs in 15 minutes.
Tour managers live in PDFs, settlement math, and 3am venue calls. This route turns the recurring paperwork (tech pack advancing, settlement reconciliation, manifest building, comp lists) into Claude scripts that read PDFs and produce the docs you need. The capstone is a venue advance generator that produces a venue-ready sheet from a raw tech pack in 15 minutes.
The exact path you follow.
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Foundation
Claude Code installed, key in place, one tour folder per artist. We connect Claude to your Drive so it can read tech packs, hospitality riders, and stage plots without you having to upload each time. 45 minutes including the part where we test PDF reading on a real rider.
Example outputClaude reading a 14-page hospitality rider and extracting the green room requirements as a clean list.
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Stack inventory
Tour managers run Master Tour, Eventric, a settlement spreadsheet, a Google Drive of PDFs, WhatsApp groups per leg, and a Notion or Airtable. We map all of it and rank by hours bleeding per tour. The biggest bleeds (advancing and settlement) become the first scripts.
Example outputA stack map showing 8 tools and the 3 recurring tour tasks that eat 12+ hours per leg.
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Contract review with AI
Performance contracts, venue agreements, and promoter deals get red-lined fast with Spellbook plus a Claude playbook. We encode your standard asks (deposit, settlement timing, force majeure, merch cut, comp allotment) and Claude flags any clause that violates them. Saves 90 minutes per contract once the playbook is built.
Example outputA red-lined venue agreement with 9 flagged clauses, ranked by which to push back on and which to accept.
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Tour ops automation
This is the heart of the route. Claude reads a venue tech pack PDF, your artist's tech rider, and the hospitality rider, then generates a venue advance sheet with every gap highlighted and every comp/guest/credential request laid out. Bruce built the prototype during a DSTRO7 tour. It cut advance time from 90 minutes to 12.
Example outputA 4-page advance sheet for a 600-cap venue, generated from 3 source PDFs in 14 minutes, ready to send.
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Capstone
You ship one tour ops workflow end to end. Most route grads ship the advance generator. A few ship a settlement reconciler that takes the merch settlement PDF and the box office settlement PDF and reconciles them against your tour budget. You document it, submit it, get peer review from other route grads.
Example outputA capstone submission: 1 working settlement reconciler, 1 README, 1 short Loom showing it run on a real settlement.
The 2026 stack for this seat.
3 deliverables that go on your LinkedIn.
Every route grad finishes with working automations they can demo on a call. Not certificates, working software.
A venue advance generator that turns a raw tech pack into a venue-ready sheet in 15 minutes.
A settlement reconciler that matches merch and box office PDFs against your tour budget.
A contract review playbook for performance contracts you can apply to every venue deal.
10 to 14 hours total, self-paced over 2 to 3 weeks.
Self-paced means you start today and finish whenever the workflow ships. No cohort, no webinar, no scheduled call.
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