Stop juggling tools.
Start running shows.
Overture brings scheduling, contracts, staffing, shift planning, invoicing, and production into one unified platform — with labour-law rules for your workforce built in.
Event management shouldn't feel like this
Tired of stitching together a working production tool from separate services and subscriptions? Overture solves it — efficiently, in one system.
Scattered information
Event details live in spreadsheets, contracts in email threads, schedules in shared docs, and staff availability in someone's head. Nothing connects.
Disconnected tools
You pay for five different platforms that don't talk to each other. Every handoff between systems creates risk, duplicated data, and wasted time.
Manual busywork
Contracts are copy-pasted from templates. Invoices are rebuilt from scratch. Shift plans are checked against labour law by hand. The admin work never ends.
One platform. Every workflow.
Overture replaces the patchwork with a single system designed around how event teams and venues actually operate.
Visual Calendar & Scheduling
See your entire programme at a glance. Drag events across venues and dates. Multi-day productions, space bookings, and resource conflicts — handled automatically.
Contracts & Digital Signing
Build templates with merge tags that auto-fill event data. Send for signing with one click. Get a live notification the moment a client signs, so nothing slips through.
Staff & Crew Management
Drag-and-drop crew onto events, track availability, send notifications, and collect timesheets — all from the same place you manage the show.
Shift Planner · Labour-law compliant
Working Environment Act rules are encoded directly into the planner. Evening loads, rest periods, weekend distribution and averaged working hours are validated in real time as you build the rota.
§ 10-5 readyTimesheets & Approval
Crew submit the hours they actually worked — event and shift — and Overture compares them to the planned shift to surface overtime and deviations. Unchanged submissions clear automatically; the rest land in an approval queue.
Invoicing & Pricing
Generate invoices directly from event data with venue rates, resource fees, and marketing packages. No re-keying. No spreadsheet formulas.
Reports
Live revenue and utilisation computed from real event data, not a separate spreadsheet. Filter by period to see how a month, quarter or season actually performed.
Production & Instructions
Lighting, sound, front-of-house, marketing — give every department their own instruction space per event. Changes push to all production dates instantly.
Risk Analysis
Auto-fill your organisation's risk-assessment template for each event, or send a fill-in link to the people who know the details. Out comes a finished risk document, ready to file.
PDF Agreements & Preview
Upload artist contracts, riders, and technical specifications. Preview them inline on the event — no downloading, no hunting through email.
Resources & Consumables
Book rooms, gear and vehicles with conflict detection, and track consumable stock that depletes automatically as events complete. Low-stock alerts and a per-department overview keep heads ahead of shortages.
External Crew Proposals
Flag an unfilled slot as external and email a role proposal to a freelancer. One click to accept or decline updates Overture automatically, and multi-day productions are handled as a single request.
Catch & Release
Save filtered event views — by status, missing fields, department or date range — and work through exactly the events that still need attention. No more scrolling the whole calendar.
Ticketing Integration
Give each show its own ticketing ID — even several shows in one event — and pull sold counts and revenue straight onto the event and into its invoices.
Calendar Feeds
Subscribe to personal, venue, or department calendars from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. Always up to date, automatically.
Google Drive
Link event files and folders directly from Google Drive, so riders, plots and artwork live where your team already keeps them.
Notification Centre
A single inbox for contract signings, shift confirmations, and production updates — so the whole team can keep track of what's happened and what still needs attention.
Integrations That Just Work
Connect your ticketing system and sync with existing workflows. An open API lets you pull in event data from any planning tool you already use.
Overture Live
An on-air display for control rooms and foyers — a broadcast-style studio clock with a next-events board, so everyone in the building sees what's running and what's next.
Labour law built in. Because spreadsheets don't know the rules.
Every contract in Overture carries its own rules — evening premium, maximum consecutive evening shifts, rest periods, and averaged working hours under Working Environment Act § 10-5. The planner flags violations the moment you draft a week, not after HR finds them.
- Three presets for averaged working hours — individual agreement (8 weeks / 48 h / 10 h), collective agreement (52 weeks / 54 h / 12.5 h) and Labour Inspection Authority consent (26 weeks / 48 h / 13 h).
- Rolling N-week window that warns when the average breaches the contract's target.
- Minute-precise evening detection — a shift that ends at 17:00 no longer counts as an evening shift.
- Time bank, time-off-in-lieu and Visma payroll fractions, with live hour-balance badges per employee.
Your whole season on one page
Audience, revenue, sell-through and the shows worth repeating — computed live from your event data. The board deck builds itself.
What's new in Overture
We ship constantly. Here's what landed in the last few releases.
Risk analysis
Generate a risk-assessment document from your org template, pre-filled per event — or send a fill-in link to whoever holds the details.
Timesheets & approval
Crew submit actual event and shift hours; overtime and deviations against the planned shift are flagged, and unchanged submissions clear without approval.
Catch & Release
Saved, filtered event fetches — by status, missing fields, department or date — so incomplete events are easy to find and finish.
External crew proposals
Email a role proposal to an outside technician with one-click accept or decline that writes straight back into Overture.
Overture Live
A broadcast-style on-air display — studio clock and next-events board — for control rooms and foyers.
Time bank & payroll fractions
The shift planner now tracks a running time bank, time-off-in-lieu, Visma payroll fractions and live hour-balance badges per employee.
Passkeys & two-factor
Sign in with a passkey — Face ID, Touch ID or a security key, no password to phish. Or TOTP (Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password), required for admin accounts, with a 30-day "trust this device".
System push notifications
Bell, chat mentions, contract signings and shift requests arrive as native iOS / Android / desktop notifications, even when the app is closed.
Role-aware staffing
When you pick a staff member, the role suggestions narrow to the roles they can actually hold — primary plus any extras from their profile.
Results, not features
Here's what changes when your cultural institution runs on Overture.
Weeks of admin work disappear
Contracts, invoices, and staff notifications that used to take hours happen in clicks. Merge tags pull event data automatically — no copy-pasting.
Your whole team sees the same picture
Producers, technicians, front-of-house, and management all work from one live system. No more "which spreadsheet is the latest?" conversations.
Your rota is compliant by default
Labour-law rules are encoded directly in the shift planner. Violations are flagged while you plan — not three months later when HR finds them.
Nothing falls through the cracks
Every event has a full audit trail — contracts, staff assignments, instructions, history. When someone asks "did we confirm that?", the answer is one click away.
Replace five tools with one
Stop paying for a calendar app, a contract tool, a staff scheduler, an invoicing platform, and a project tracker. Overture covers all of it — without the integration headaches.
Hosted in Norway. Isolated. Yours.
Hosted and operated by us in Norway, with a dedicated, isolated database per institution. GDPR-ready by construction, not by promise.
Passkeys & two-factor
Passwordless sign-in with passkeys (Face ID, Touch ID or a security key), or TOTP-based 2FA (Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password). Required for admin accounts and never disable-able by the admin themselves — only another admin can reset on a lost device.
Hosted in Norway
Runs on Norwegian hosting we operate for you. Each institution gets its own isolated installation and database — your data is never mixed with another customer's.
GDPR by design
No third-party data processors. No analytics pings. No external CDN for app code. Personal data never leaves your installation unless you explicitly export it.
Granular roles & permissions
Per-role access on every tab and action. Producers see their events only when you want; staff see their own shifts; admins see everything. Define what each role can read or edit.
Encrypted in transit
HTTPS-only via Let's Encrypt SSL on your domain. Push notifications use VAPID-signed payloads. Trust tokens are random 256-bit values, server-validated with constant-time compare.
Full data export, anytime
Every collection (events, staff, contracts, timesheets) is a JSON blob in your MySQL database. You can dump and migrate at any moment — no lock-in, no proprietary format.
Common questions
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