Description
Every event goes wrong in one of four places: the building, the approval, the handoff or the bill. This is one instrument for each, with the money in its Essential Edition.
What is in it
- Walk It Twice — The Venue Evaluation System ($19 on its own). A fourteen-page printed field set walked in the order the building gives it to you, and a ten-sheet working file that turns what you measured into occupant load, rental quantities, connected load, load-in labor, flip time and a comparison across four venues. With Venue Reality, the companion that keeps every venue fact with its source.
- This Isn’t What I Pictured — The Design Approval System ($19 on its own). Five decision levels with one named owner each, choices put bounded rather than open, a decision record issued the same day, a dozen lock dates counted back from what suppliers need, and a late change priced instead of absorbed. Nine printable forms and an eight-sheet working file.
- Nobody Told the Florist — The Vendor Handoff System ($19 on its own). One record of the event and a separate brief for every vendor, built only from what that vendor needs. It will not issue a brief built on an unknown measurement or an unapproved decision, keeps every issue, and shows which vendors hold an old one and who has confirmed which version. One file that runs in your browser, offline.
- Where Did the Money Go — Essential Edition ($12 on its own). The money side of one event in one workbook: the true cost on every line, what you committed to and what it really cost, one forecast of where the total is heading, the reserve, and what is due next.
What it costs
Bought one by one at today’s prices, the four come to $69. Together they are $55. That is the price every day, not an offer that ends.
How they work together
They follow the order an event is built in. Walk It Twice settles what the room can actually hold before anyone signs. This Isn’t What I Pictured gets the design approved, with one named owner for each decision, before production commits. Nobody Told the Florist turns the approved plan into a brief for each vendor and keeps track of who holds which version; the venue evidence from Walk It Twice pastes straight into it. Where Did the Money Go carries every commitment into one forecast, so a change reaches the budget before the invoice does. None of them needs the others, and each works on its own.
Who it is for
Planners, producers, designers and in-house event teams who carry an event from the first venue walk to the last invoice, and want one system for each stretch of it.
If you already own one of the four, buy the others on their own: this price assumes all four are new to you. If you need invoices, quotes, change orders and vendor scorecards, the Professional bundle carries them.
Files, formats and license
Everything each instrument downloads on its own downloads with this bundle. Walk It Twice and This Isn’t What I Pictured also have web editions, which open in full in the browser you buy in and print from it.
- Walk It Twice: the ten-sheet venue workbook (.xlsx) and the field forms (.pdf); the Venue Reality companion as a blank workbook and a worked example (.xlsx), with its quick start and worked decision brief (.pdf); and the fourteen field forms as a web edition
- This Isn’t What I Pictured: the eight-sheet approval workbook (.xlsx), and the nine forms as a web edition
- Nobody Told the Florist: the system, one HTML file that opens in any browser, and its quick start (.pdf)
- Where Did the Money Go: the Essential workbook as a blank and as a worked example (.xlsx), and the quick start (.pdf)
Each instrument is exactly the one sold on its own page, and corrections I make to any of them arrive on this order too. License: single practitioner or single studio. Use them on every event you plan, for as many clients as you like, and share what they print. Do not resell or redistribute the blank files.
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