Working with Roadie

Roadie is the closest thing to having a manager: someone who knows your act, does the fiddly bits, and doesn't need a cut. You talk to it in plain English and it does the work in your account.

Open it from the Roadie button anywhere in your dashboard, or just start typing. There's no syntax to learn. "Add a show at the Murray on the 14th", "write me a bio", "who's on my list from the Bozeman gig" — say it how you'd say it to a person.

What it can actually do

Roadie isn't a chatbot bolted onto a help page. It has hands, and it works on your real account:

• Your site — add or reorder sections, rewrite copy, swap a photo, change your theme, turn a page's nav placement on or off.
• Shows — add a gig, update the details, tidy up a date you got wrong.
• Your bio and blurbs — a short one for your site, a longer press bio, a booking pitch. It writes in your voice, not a press-release voice.
• Setlists — build one from your repertoire, tighten it to fit a slot, reorder for pacing.
• Artwork — gig posters, social posts, cover art, merch designs. See The Studio.
• Your fans — draft an email to your list, pull up who you met at a particular show.
• Finding things — "where do I set up payouts?" and it takes you there.

It asks before it acts

The rule is simple: Roadie proposes, you approve. Anything that changes your site, sends something, or spends money is shown to you first, in plain words, with a button to say yes. You'll never find out after the fact that it published something or emailed your list.

Nothing Roadie writes goes live until you say so. If you don't like what it wrote, tell it what's wrong — "too formal", "we're a four-piece not a trio", "lose the second paragraph" — and it'll redo it. That's usually faster than editing it yourself.

It remembers your act

Roadie keeps notes on the things a manager would know: your venues, your contacts, which rooms treat you well, what you played last time. That's what makes the second conversation better than the first.

You own all of it, and you can read, correct, or delete any of it. See What Roadie remembers.

Getting better answers

• Be specific about the thing, vague about the wording. "A poster for the Murray show, more inky than glossy" beats "make me a poster."
• Tell it what you didn't like. It's much better at revising than guessing.
• Correct it once. If it's got a venue name or a lineup wrong, say so — it writes that down and stops getting it wrong.

On your phone

Roadie is also the whole point of the iPhone app: it's built for the moments you're not at a desk — in the van, at load-in, the morning after a gig. See The Sonic Bloom app.