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.
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.
Open the calculator → 02 / ReferenceWhat 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.
See the inventory → 03 / ReferenceStraight 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.
Read the FAQ → 04 / WalkthroughSix 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.
Read the process → 05 / PositioningDirect 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.
Read why us → 06 / Planner-specificBuilt 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.
For production managers →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.
The full timeline from brief to load-out. Twelve-week guide for the corporate conference producer.
Keynote planningThe line-items that get missed on first-time corporate keynote scopes.
RFP guideWhat to ask, what to never ask, what makes a great vendor self-select in.
Pricing philosophyThe structural reason every quote is custom — and what to ask for instead.
Virtual productionColor uniformity across a curved volume — the calibration day before the DP shows up.
OperationsWhat every LA permit, every union deal, every venue rep wants on the COI.
Festival engineeringHow a stage gets engineered for wind load, rain, and crowd compression — and when you call a hold.
Vendor selectionWhy the cheapest quote almost always becomes the most expensive one.
Email hello@anydaylive.com. Reply inside four hours. Scoped quote inside twenty-four.
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