A 3-guard wedding and a 200-guard festival shouldn't cost the same, and you shouldn't pay a monthly seat fee for a roster that existed for one weekend. Standby is priced by the size of the event you're running, as one fixed number you see before the event starts. Put it on the bid. No meter, no surprise at the end.
When you build the event, you've already told Standby the posts and the hours. We add that up into agent-hours, the total staffed time across the whole event, and that lands you in a band. It's the honest way to size the job: a single overnight and a four-day festival are different animals, and the price should know it. You see your band and your number when you plan. You're never billed by the hour, and tracking one more walk-up or breaker never costs you a cent.
Run events back to back all year? Buying them one at a time stops making sense somewhere around six or eight. The Season plan is a flat annual that covers your whole calendar, white-labels under your own brand, and handles multiple teams. If your company's name is going on the bid, your company's name should be on the board. Let's talk numbers.
Numbers are still settling while Standby is in early access, and the first operators in get founder pricing that won't move on them later. If you run events and want in, leave an email and we'll talk real numbers. No sales theater, no webinar.
Cutting the person who reconciles spreadsheets the night before is the easy number to believe. It's also the floor. The real value shows up the night something goes wrong.
Nobody hand-reconciling the contract grid against the schedule export with a highlighter. That alone pays for most events.
When a client questions the invoice, you have coverage of record, post by post, against what they signed off on. One contested invoice on a big show is worth more than the tool.
The system catches the open post before it goes quiet. In security, an uncovered post during an incident isn't an inconvenience. It's a liability event and a lost contract.
Show the client a live, read-only coverage view nobody else can offer. That's not a cost you saved. That's a contract you landed.
Because I spent years watching software bill us per head, per month, for a roster that existed for a weekend and then evaporated. The tool should fit the work. Events are bursty, temporary, all-hands. The price should be too, and you should know it before you ever say yes to the client.