TRACE is festival production software that reads your artists' technical riders, scores every extracted field against the source line it came from, and threads it all the way to the run of show.
The same dataset flows through four stages — from the first rider PDF to a festival production plan that's ready to hand off.
Rider extraction you can trust because you can check it. Hover any field and TRACE lights up the exact line in the original rider — colour-coded by confidence, so the values that need a human surface instead of hiding.
Riders flow into a live multi-stage timeline the moment they're approved — then the same dataset drives the console layout, the crew shifts and the logistics. One surface, four views.
Brand mismatches, exclusive-use clashes, missing riders, understaffed stages — TRACE watches the whole festival and surfaces each conflict with a severity, a plain-language reason, and a resolution you can act on in a click.
Equipment totals, crew needs and conflict health — computed from your rider data, ready for the rental order and the call sheet.
Once your riders are in, the TRACE assistant reads them for you — equipment, crew, hospitality, changeovers — and answers in plain language, every number traceable to its source.
Read every rider.
Run every stage.
Trust every number.
I book the lineup and I sign off the budget. TRACE turned two days of cross-checking riders into an afternoon — and I can see exactly where every number comes from.
Per-stage equipment totals and changeover timings used to live in my head and three spreadsheets. Now it's one dataset the whole crew trusts.
When a rider says 'no d&b on this stage', TRACE flags it before doors — not at soundcheck. That alone earns its keep.
Start free with the public timetable. Upgrade when you need extraction, intelligence or a team.
TRACE is built by Formray, a company that runs real festivals. Every feature came from a real production problem — too many rider PDFs, last-minute changes, tight changeovers, understaffed stages. We built the instrument we wished we had.