It's 1am. A guard radios in for lunch. You pull someone to cover, then someone to cover them, and now you're at the whiteboard with a marker, erasing three names, hoping you don't forget that Post 4 is now standing empty.
Standby is the operating system for live events. Plan the coverage with your client, check people in, post them, and move them with a click. Incidents, gear, and notes live in one place, and the handoff and the proof write themselves.
Running a live event means holding three pictures in your head at once: what you promised, who's actually here, and where everyone is right now. They're scattered across emails, spreadsheets, sign-in sheets, and a whiteboard. They never agree, and the person who needs them most can't see them.
Clock-ins on one sheet, radio handout on a clipboard, breaks tracked in someone's head. The basic questions take a lap of the site to answer.
Three different numbers that should match and don't. A callout at 11pm turns into a gap nobody planned for, and you find out when a post goes quiet.
The client agreement is buried in emails and a spreadsheet. The site lives on a whiteboard. They drift apart all night, and the shift lead has no line of sight to what was promised.
The move that breaks every other tool: one break, one relief, one backfill, and the open post it would have left behind.
Click Falcon's bar, hit Start lunch, and pick Anchor as cover, all in one popover. Falcon's bar closes out, timestamped. Anchor's picks up the post from this second forward.
Pulling Anchor to cover left the Associate Lead post empty. You didn't have to remember that. Standby flagged it and floated it to the top of the board in red. The gap can't go quiet.
Move Ranger into the open post from the position picker. The board is whole again, and the entire chain is now a clean, timestamped record you never had to write down.
Standby was built on site at real events, where an empty post is a real problem. But the scattered-spreadsheets-and-whiteboard dance is the same everywhere there's a roster, a clock, and a client expecting what they paid for.
Standby is opening up to a small group of operators who are tired of the spreadsheet shuffle. Leave an email and I'll show you what running an event on one board actually looks like. No pitch deck, no sales call you have to dodge.