Why pay subscription fees that increase as your team grows?
Own the application outright, customize it to your workflow, and leverage AI to evolve it as your business changes.
BlackSheep Productions makes the software it needed after 25+ years running corporate events. Now you can buy it. Source code included. Your API keys. Your infrastructure. Your cost structure — forever.
No SaaS. No subscriptions. No per-event fees.
Deploy these applications wherever it makes the most sense for your organization. Smaller organizations will typically choose a secure cloud deployment, while larger organizations may prefer to host the application within their own infrastructure, maintaining complete control over where it resides and who can access it.
See the apps ↓Building your own event production tools costs weeks — maybe months — of prompting, iterating, debugging, scrapping, and starting over. Every one of those tokens is a cost with zero revenue attached. When you buy ours, your first token is a production token.
| Build It Yourself | Monthly Subscription | Buy Ours | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first use | Weeks to months | Same day | Same day |
| Development token cost | High — 100% overhead | None | We absorbed it |
| First revenue-generating use | Whenever you finish | Day one | Day one |
| Ongoing cost | Your API keys + maintenance | Monthly, increasing with number of users | Your API keys only |
| Customizable? | Yes | NONE | Yes — source is yours |
This isn't a SaaS comparison. This is a build vs. buy comparison. And for operators who can't afford to waste a dollar on AI that doesn't pay its way, buying wins.
Manages the moment-by-moment flow of a live event: what's happening, who's responsible, what time it starts, and who needs to know when something changes. Role-based access means your A/V team can pull it up without accidentally editing your script. To see a sample of how a shared link appears and is able to be used, please click here.
Sends targeted availability requests to your contractor network, collects responses — rates, roles, and notes — and gives you a clean dashboard of who's in, who's out, and who's maybe. Confirm a contractor and they get a booking email with an ICS calendar hold automatically.
Generates the production schedule for an event — who's where, when, and what's happening in each room. Connects to your Airtable base and outputs structured schedules you can hand to a crew.
Replaces spreadsheets with the ability to have 5 tiers of markups, easy reconciliation with the ability to attach invoices and notes for each line item, views that can be shared with clients, import from an existing budget spreadsheet, export to a spreadsheet, and more!
Replaces per-event SaaS tools like Slido at an event. Attendees submit questions from their phones, vote on what they want answered most, and a stage view auto-refreshes on screen — all without asking anyone to install an app.
Everything BlackSheep Productions built — one purchase, all source code included. ~30% savings vs. buying separately.
You run a real book of business without an engineering team or a software budget. You need tools that work the way you do — not tools you have to bend your workflow to fit.
Under 20 people. You compete on quality and relationships. When a per-event SaaS charge cuts into a margin that's already thin, you feel it. You want to own your tools.
/event for Q&A. /month for a budget template. These tools are already tested and running — you just haven't had time to build them. Now you don't have to.
Cloud-backed, role-based access, secure credential handling, proper data isolation. Designed like enterprise tools. Priced for operators who don't have 200 salespeople in the margin.
Technically capable, but not necessarily a developer. Each app includes a SETUP.md that walks you through Supabase, environment variables, and deploying to Netlify. If you can follow instructions and aren't afraid of a browser-based dashboard, you can do this.
Supabase (free tier covers most use cases) and Netlify (free tier handles most deployments). AI API usage for the Budget Tool's import feature goes straight to the API provider — no markup from BlackSheep Productions.
Each purchase includes a First Prompts document — a prompt pack you load into your own AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to create an AI assistant that knows the codebase inside and out. This is intentional: your AI will answer faster than a support ticket, and it's available 24/7. BlackSheep Productions does not provide direct technical support.
Yes. That's the point. You get the source code. Change the UI, add fields, wire it to different data sources. The license covers internal use and modifications — not resale or redistribution.
Yes. Running your clients' events using these apps is internal use — you're the operator. What you can't do is sell the apps themselves to those clients as standalone software.
These run on your own Netlify and Supabase accounts. You have direct access to the logs, the database, and the source. You're not waiting on a support ticket — that's part of what you're paying for. Your AI assistant (set up with the included First Prompts doc) can walk you through most issues in real time.
BlackSheep Productions is a corporate event production company based in Georgia. Mark Bowling, BlackSheep's Chief Shepherd, has been in the event production business for over 25 years.
Mark hosts the MAD Events Podcast — a show about the business and craft of event production, made for the same independent contractors and small shops these tools are built for.
If you found these apps through the podcast, welcome. If you haven't listened yet, it's worth your commute.
Questions before you buy?
No sales process. Just a straight answer.
mark@blacksheep-productions.com