You don't get a survey.
You get a vote.
Tell us what you want built. Tell us what you would realistically pay. We put your demand next to what the thing actually costs, in public, and the arithmetic decides whether it happens.
Why a cheap ticket needs a big crowd
We don't pretend a $10 ticket magically pays for a million-dollar night. We work out how many people have to turn up to make it true. Change any line and watch the last number move.
Those cost lines are an illustration of the shape of a budget, not a quote for a booked event. When there is a real one, the real figures go on Receipts with the date they were counted.
What the first money builds
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Put someone forward
An artist, a designer, a sound engineer, a vendor, a whole night you want to exist. Anything a event needs, somebody has to name first.
What happens to it
It does not appear on the site when you send it. It goes into a queue and moves submitted → researching → priced → eligible → published, and only the last of those is public. That is not bureaucracy for its own sake: a write-in that publishes itself lets anybody put a real person's name next to a fee nobody asked them about, and lets one account flood a ballot until the vote means nothing. You can see your own at every stage, and you get told if it is declined and why.
What a night actually costs
The venue is not the bill. Here is every line an event has to pay, and every one of them is empty, because nobody has researched them yet.
Why they are all blank
We could fill these with plausible-looking figures in ten minutes and
the page would look far more impressive. It would also be inventing
numbers on a site whose entire argument is that its numbers are
checkable. So they ship empty and each one gets filled in when there
is a real source, which is recorded next to it.
Artist fees are never estimated here at all. A booking fee is a
private negotiation, and publishing a guess next to somebody's name is
a claim about their business we are in no position to make. That line
says quote required and will keep saying it.
How this vote works
A pledge is not a vote
Your pledge tells us how much demand exists. Your vote tells us what you want. Neither buys the other. Somebody pledging $1,000 does not get a thousand votes — they get one, the same as somebody who has given nothing.
Signing in is the whole qualification
There is no tier, no invitation and no approval. If you have an account you are on the roll. The account exists so that one person gets one vote, not to decide who deserves one.
Secret by construction
One table records that you voted. A different table records what was chosen. They share no column that could connect them, so there is no query anybody can run — us included — that reconstructs your ballot. It isn't hidden. It was never written down.
Results stay sealed until it closes
Turnout is public the whole time, because a count of ballots reveals nothing about anyone's choice. The tally is not, so nobody can watch the race and vote tactically, and no half-finished count can be screenshotted as though it were the answer.
What we can't do, said plainly
We cannot show you your own ballot after you submit it, and there is no
feature coming that will. Nothing in the database knows which option you
chose, so there is no honest way to answer the question. That is the
cost of a real secret ballot and we would rather pay it than fake it.
The one thing this design does not defend against: somebody with live
access to the database as writes happen could correlate them in real
time. Defending against that needs infrastructure we do not have, so we
are telling you instead of implying otherwise. What we can say is that
our own database cannot tell you who voted for whom afterwards, and
that is true.