Resources

For the people who plan the show.

Free tools, references, and reading for production managers, event planners, and clients trying to scope a project before they brief out.

Use them, fork them, save the PDFs. Email hello@anydaylive.com if anything is missing.

Tools we built to help plan.

01 / Tool

LED Wall Calculator

Pick a pitch and a size. Get back: panel count, pixel resolution, weight, power draw, processor count, minimum viewing distance, and a directional read on what the wall will need at the venue.

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02 / Reference

Equipment Inventory

What AnyDay Live owns across audio, lighting, LED video, processing, staging, RF, and cameras. Brand, model, scale-of-use. Useful for cross-checking a vendor's quote against actual gear classes.

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03 / Reference

FAQ — how it scopes

Straight answers on what moves a quote: insurance, travel radius, weekend coverage, gear ownership, Sunday deliveries, bringing your own FOH engineer. The questions clients actually ask.

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04 / Walkthrough

The Process

Six chapters from brief intake to strike and handoff. What we do in each phase, what you get back, what we ask of you. The discipline behind the room.

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05 / Positioning

Why AnyDay Live

Direct side-by-side comparison: typical LA AV broker vs. AnyDay Live. Six dimensions where the difference shows up — load-in, doors, when something breaks, the day after, the invoice.

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06 / Planner-specific

For production managers

Built for the production managers who are running the show on behalf of an agency, brand, or studio. How we interface, what we deliver, what to ask of any AV vendor.

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What a good brief looks like.

A brief that gets a fast, accurate quote has six lines. Use this as a starter template — copy, paste, fill in.

Email it to hello@anydaylive.com. You'll hear back inside four hours with three clarifying questions if any. A scoped quote arrives inside twenty-four — weekends included.

Reading from the journal.

Conference planning

Plan AV for a 500-Person LA Conference

The full timeline from brief to load-out. Twelve-week guide for the corporate conference producer.

Keynote planning

AV Requirements Checklist — 500-Person Keynote

The line-items that get missed on first-time corporate keynote scopes.

RFP guide

How to Write an AV RFP for a Corporate Event

What to ask, what to never ask, what makes a great vendor self-select in.

Pricing philosophy

Why Corporate AV Pricing Isn't Published

The structural reason every quote is custom — and what to ask for instead.

Virtual production

Cast & Calibrate — Multi-Wall LED Volume

Color uniformity across a curved volume — the calibration day before the DP shows up.

Operations

Permitting & Union Labor — AV in LA

What every LA permit, every union deal, every venue rep wants on the COI.

Festival engineering

Festival Stage Engineering

How a stage gets engineered for wind load, rain, and crowd compression — and when you call a hold.

Vendor selection

The Cheap AV Shop Myth

Why the cheapest quote almost always becomes the most expensive one.

Ready to brief?

Email hello@anydaylive.com. Reply inside four hours. Scoped quote inside twenty-four.

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