Sound familiar?
Hyss replaces the spreadsheets, group texts, and mental gymnastics you use to book, manage, and pay freelance AV crew. Staff a show in minutes, catch double-bookings before they happen, and turn every booking into a clean invoice. Built by people who've lived the grind.
30 days free. No credit card.
See it in action
A day in your life
And you know it doesn't have to be this way.
Today
Scrolling through your contacts, texting the same availability question to 35 freelancers. Again.
With Hyss
Tell Hyss when and what you need. It shows you who's free, qualified, and nearby. You just pick.
Today
Busy season. 10 events this weekend. You're cross-referencing three spreadsheets and a group chat to make sure Brad isn't accidentally in two places at once. Whoops.
With Hyss
If it's a new event, Hyss shows you if Brad's already somewhere else. You booked Brad and the event moved? Hyss flags if Brad can't do the new date. Automatically.
Today
A tentative just got confirmed. That's 13 texts to send. And that's not including finding someone to replace the freelancer who took a real offer while you were waiting on the client.
With Hyss
Confirm the event. Hyss notifies your crew instantly. Lost a soft hold? Your roster is right there, filtered by who's free and qualified for that exact position. Restaffed in minutes.
Today
Date changed? New call sheet. Dress code updated? That's callsheet_v3_final_THISONE.pdf. And your A1 still shows up looking like an angel at a funeral.
With Hyss
Hyss generates call sheets in seconds. And it's always live. When something changes, everyone's copy updates instantly. No v2, no v3, no THISONE.pdf.
Today
“Hey man, I'm so sorry, I can't make it today.” Load-in is at noon. You're calling down your contact list from bed, hoping someone picks up.
With Hyss
The moment they dropped, Hyss started offering the slot to your top-call operators first, in your roster order — qualified and available only. First to accept gets it. It was working while you were asleep.
Today
Digging through texts for who actually stayed until 1 AM. Rebuilding the invoice twice. The overtime nobody wrote down? That's your margin walking out the door.
With Hyss
Every booking already knows its hours, rates, and OT. Planned vs. worked is reconciled per person, the client invoice builds itself, and your books stay clean. Billed everything, typed nothing.
More than staffing
The booking is just the beginning. Hyss carries every event all the way to the money.
Live call sheets mean nobody is working from last week’s run of show or the wrong deck version. And every event gets its own crew chat — the whole team on the same page, without twenty “who is the 917 number?” texts.
Hours, overtime, and rate changes are tracked against every booking, so the invoice reflects what actually happened on show day — not what someone remembered a week later.
Send agreements and W-9s for e-signature before call time. Sync invoices and payments straight into QuickBooks. Your accountant will think you hired someone.
W-2 internal staff, 1099 freelancers, and vendor-supplied labor — finally managed seamlessly together in one place. Same roster, same booking flow, same call sheets, with the pay and paperwork trails kept straight for each.
Hyss integrates with several gear management softwares — insert pull lists straight into your call sheets, and invoice gear and labor together in one place.
Isn’t it crazy that someone who has only ever seen an X32 holds the same title as a DiGiCo Quantum op? Hyss tracks your whole roster’s AV-specific competencies, so you never have to remember who knows what.
Who's behind this
We're Dor and Austin. We met in college, spent years making music together, and both ended up in the AV production world. Austin spent years freelancing as an audio and video engineer and managing crew at places like Columbia University and Citibank. Dor comes from a decade of music production and audio engineering, building studios and mixing records.
We both know what it's like to manage crew with spreadsheets and group texts. We both know the 10pm sick-call scramble. We both know the “hey, what's your month looking like?” text you send 35 times a month.
So we built the tool we wished existed.
Pricing
No hidden fees, no “contact sales for pricing.” You see what it costs.
+ 0.5% of labor costs on your events
White-glove onboarding
Contact us and we’ll take whatever you have — .csv files, spreadsheets, or plain notes on your crew roster and upcoming events — and import it into your account quickly and accurately. Painless from day one.
That's it. No surprise fees, no annual lock-in, cancel anytime.
