Founding cohort · Now open · Toronto

Get foundby the right gig.

A booking platform that matches DJs to events instead of dumping a list on the client and making them sort. Starting in Toronto, built to run everywhere. The first twenty-five DJs get founding terms, permanently. No listing fee, no membership. Ten percent, only when you book.

Founding cohort · Toronto
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Founding terms

Why get in first

The roster is built to hold thousands. The first twenty-five set the standard for it — and keep terms nobody after them gets.

Permanent

Free featured placement, for good. Every DJ who joins after pays monthly for the same position. Founding members never do — including when the roster is thousands deep.

Priority

First look at every booking. Requests route to the founding cohort before they open to the wider roster.

Input

You shape it. Founding members get a direct line on what gets built, how disputes are handled, and where the rate lands.

Compounding

Your reviews start first. Rating history is what the matching runs on. Twelve months of it before anyone else has any is the advantage that actually lasts.

The honest comparison

You've probably tried the directories

The problem was never that they have too many DJs. It's that they hand the client all of them and walk away. Here's where we sit, using their own published numbers.

Platform
Toronto DJs
What it costs you
GigSalad
132 listed
2.5–5% + membership
The Bash
Active since 1997
5% + $129–219/yr
Nightfall
Matched, not listed
10%, nothing else

Listing counts and fee structures per each platform's published pages, 2026.

Why ten percent

Compare the all-in cost

The headline rate isn't the number that matters. This is.

A directory
~8%
5 bookings at $1,500 = $7,500
5% booking fee = $375
Annual membership = $219
Total $594 — 7.9% all-in
Nightfall
10%
Same 5 bookings = $750
No membership
No annual fee
No booking, no cost

Roughly two points more to be matched to gigs that fit instead of listed and left there — and nothing at all in a year you don't book.

How it works

The client never sees the whole roster

That's the entire difference, and it's what lets this grow without turning into the thing it replaced.

Client side

They describe the event

Date, type, budget, room size, the vibe they're after. Two minutes, no scrolling.

Platform side

We return a shortlist

A handful of DJs who are free that date, price in range, and have played that kind of room before.

Your side

You get sent gigs that fit

Not impressions on a profile page. Actual requests from clients whose event matches what you do.

A directory with a thousand DJs is worse for you than one with a hundred. A matching platform with a thousand isn't — because the client was only ever going to see five of them, and the question is whether you're in those five.

Payment

How the money moves

Escrow through Stripe. The same protection the established platforms run — we're not asking you to accept less.

01

You accept

The client's card is charged on acceptance. The money leaves their hands, not yours.

02

Held in escrow

Funds sit with Stripe until the event is done. Neither side can pull them.

03

You play

The payment conversation happened weeks ago. Show up and do the set.

04

Released

Auto-released 48 hours after the event. In your account in about three business days.

Equipment damage at the event is covered up to $500 per booking through the platform guarantee. This is a platform-backed guarantee, not insurance — full terms in the roster agreement.

Full picture

What we don't have yet

You should decide with this in front of you, not find it out later.

No booking history

We're pre-launch. You'd be joining before there's demand on the other side of the platform.

No client base yet

Early bookings come from direct outreach to planners and venues, not from search traffic.

Untested at volume

The guarantee is funded and documented, but it hasn't been stress-tested by real disputes.

It costs nothing to find out

No fee to join. No fee unless you book. The only thing you're risking is the ten minutes it takes to set up a profile.

Register

Get in the founding cohort

Twenty-five spots at founding terms. The roster stays open after that — the terms don't. You set your own rate either way.

Contact

Booking or partnership

Planning an event, running a venue, or want to talk about the platform? Send a note and you'll get a reply directly.