If you've ever settled a show at 1am while the headliner's tour manager paced behind you and the merch person asked about a refund, you know the feeling. Five tools open. Three spreadsheets. A printed contract somewhere. The bartender wants the comp count.

Most platforms built for live events were built by people who've never had that night. We have.

That's the whole reason Opendate exists.

We were the room

Our team didn't come out of a deck and a dream. We came out of venues. Box offices. Production trailers. Talent buying. Marketing. Settlement. We sold the tickets, ran the door, walked the deposit to the bank on Monday morning.

Which means we built Opendate the way we wished it had existed when we were on the other side of the screen. One system. Booking, marketing, ticketing, settlement, box office, fan data. Not five tools held together by Zapier and prayer.

It also means we have opinions. Strong ones. We're bringing all of them to NIVA Con '26 in Minneapolis, and we want to share them with you.

This is why we're showing up loud at NIVA

Most years, conferences are sales theater. A booth. A demo loop. A bowl of mints.

We're doing it differently.

Opendate Office Hours. New this year. Six themes across two days at the booth. Performing Arts. Talent buyers. Marketing. Box office. AI. Owners and Operators. No slides, no pitches. Real questions with real people. Sign up for one slot or three.

Two parties Tuesday night. State Fair Soiree at First Avenue with TBA, 6 to 9pm. MPLS Showcase at Hook & Ladder with NoBool, 7pm to 1am. Both are free. Both have an RSVP. Both will be a good time.

The whole team is coming to Minneapolis. Sales, product, engineering, design, customer success. Not because we need that many people to staff a booth (we don't). Because we want every part of Opendate sitting in real conversations with the people who actually run the rooms. The engineers want to hear what's broken. The designers want to watch you try things. The CS team wants to put faces to ticket numbers. Our founders want the unfiltered version of how it's going.

We borrowed the Husker Du and First Avenue Star Wall vibe for the booth design. Loud, local, hard to miss. If you can't find us, you're not looking. (Also, we're booth #6 in case you do miss us...somehow)

What we've been building

In case you've missed it, we've been busy.

Conductor, our built-in AI assistant. Ask your Opendate instance a question in plain language. How did last weekend's shows perform? What's the average spend per fan from the Tuesday show in March? Which offers are still open? Conductor pulls from your event, ticketing, financial, offer, and fan data and answers in seconds. No dashboards to build. No SQL to write. Just ask.

Memberships. Venues can now sell memberships through Opendate. Use the ticketing widget or drop in a standalone membership widget. Same backend, same fan data, same reporting. If you've been duct-taping a separate membership platform to your stack, this is the duct tape coming off.

Opendate Distribution. List your tickets to StubHub directly from Opendate. Sync inventory in real time. Reduce the scalper noise. Capture fan data from every resale transaction. Resale used to be a black box. Not anymore.

‘Just For You’ email marketing. When you use the Opendate Widget to build an email, the ‘Just For You’ block dynamically shows each recipient the event they're most likely to care about, based on their real fan data. Same email, different content per person, no segmenting headache.

We also raised a $14M Series A this January. Not to brag (okay, a little). To say this: we're investing hard in this product because we believe the operating system for live events should belong to the people running the shows.

And the work keeps going. We have something new with Tixel dropping June 2nd, the week of NIVA. You'll want to see that one live.

Come find us

Everything (booth #6, party RSVPs, Office Hours sign-ups, full schedule) lives on our NIVA hub.

Or just walk to Booth #6. We'll be the ones in punk posters arguing about settlement workflows.

See you in Minneapolis.