Buy a ticket before the lineup exists. Vote every week on the venue, the headliner, the support acts, the camping. Once the crowd has made the show, sell your ticket for what it is now worth, or buy more. The platform takes a small fee on every ticket traded.
You find out who is playing after you have paid, or you wait and pay a broker. Either way the show was decided without you.
Booking is a wager placed months out on other people's taste. A wrong headliner sinks the year, and the promoter finds out on sale day.
The difference between face value and what a ticket is really worth is real money. Today it goes to resale bots and brokers, not to the fans and not to the event.
The people with the most information about what the crowd wants, the crowd, are the last to be asked and the last to be paid. Ticketing sites, crowdfunding and prediction markets each hold one piece of the fix. Nobody has put them together.
The founders' round sells 3,000 tickets at a flat $100. No venue, no lineup, just a date and a promise: you will decide both.
Ten rounds, one a week. Venue first, then headliner, then support, then everything from camping to set times. Ranked choice, one ticket one hand.
After each round the ticket reprices. Sell to someone who wants in, or buy more if you believe. Every trade happens on the platform and carries a fee.
Whoever holds the ticket on the day scans it at the gate. The crowd that walks in is the crowd that booked it.
Committed before a venue is named. Enough to sign the venue shortlist and put real guarantees on the artist ballot.
A paid, verified electorate. Big enough to be a real crowd voice, small enough to sell out fast. Scarcity is the engine.
The only price a founder ever pays. Everything they hold after that, the crowd made. Later buyers pay the market price.
Biggest decisions first. The venue sets the budget, the headliner sets the tone, and everything after that is the crowd furnishing the house it chose. Examples below are from the simulated first festival.
Founders only. Three pre-signed sites with capacity, camping and cost on the card.
Sim: Redgum Flats, 12,000 cap
The biggest swing. Every artist on the ballot has already confirmed the dates and their price.
Sim: Nova Fenwick
A different lane, so the top of the bill has range.
Sim: Glass Harbor
Pick four from twelve.
Four more. Rising acts and locals.
Electronic, comedy, or silent disco.
Sim: silent disco
Glamping tiers, showers, quiet camp.
Who gets the commission budget.
Vendor shortlist and bar policy.
Who closes which night.
Sim: Nova Fenwick closes Saturday
Artists and venues opt in before a round opens: dates held, price set, a sixty-second pitch, and a listing fee that keeps the ballot serious. $500 placeholder Whoever wins is booked. There is no "they said no."
Every artist gets a page and a share link. Their fans can buy in and vote, which is how a mid-size act beats a bigger name. Losing artists and venues keep their listing and go to the front of the next ballot.
After week 10 the show is fully specified. Tickets keep trading until the gates open, and new waves release at the market price up to the venue's capacity.
Founders paid $100. After the headliner vote the same ticket is a seat at a show with a name on it, and it trades like one.
Ticket #0001 from the simulated first festival. Bought once, sold twice, scanned once. The fee is taken inside the transfer contract before the token moves, so there is no way to move a ticket without paying it. rates are placeholders
Card payment. A token is minted to a wallet the fan never has to see.
The first holder wanted roots, the crowd picked pop. They sell up 38% and leave happy.
Vote travels with the ticket. The new holder votes on Friday.
Scanned by its third holder. Three transactions, three fees, one seat.
Every ticket the platform issues, founders and later waves alike. Happens once per ticket.
Every time a ticket changes hands. Small and unavoidable, Kalshi-style. This is the stream that grows with excitement, because the crowd changes its mind every week for ten weeks.
Artists and venues pay to be on a ballot. It keeps the ballot serious and it pays for the campaign tools they get in return.
Defaults are the simulated first festival. Move anything.
Platform revenue is separate from the event. Primary sales minus the platform fee are the promoter's to book the show with. For the pilot that promoter is us, so the first event earns both sides.
Primary happens once. Resale happens every time the crowd changes its mind. In the simulation, resale is more than half of platform revenue, and a ticket that changes hands twice earns the platform more than it did on the day it was sold.
Fans pay by card and see a ticket, a ballot and a price. Under that, each ticket is a token and each vote is a signed message. Here is the whole path, left to right.
Normal checkout. Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a card. Dollars in, no crypto.
Created at signup, held by the platform, tied to a verified identity. The fan never sees it.
One token, one seat. It cannot be screenshotted, duplicated, or sold twice.
The holder's phone signs a challenge. The scanner checks who owns the token right now, not a barcode.
The transfer path is the fee. A database rule can be skipped by an admin. A contract rule cannot.
Every hand raised is on the record. The tally is public and cannot be edited after the fact, by us or anyone.
The gate checks the ledger. A copied ticket is not a ticket.
Seller paid, buyer seated, fee collected, in one step. No escrow, no chargeback window on resale.
Venues, artists and a future white-label promoter can check the books without trusting us.
Build-partner choices: a low-fee chain such as Solana or Base, the card on-ramp, and the identity provider. None of them changes what the fan sees.
Six months to build and clear the legal questions, one month to sign the ballot, a week to sell the founders, ten weeks to build the show in public, then waves until the gates open. dates are the simulated plan
Build the ticket token, ballot, market, card on-ramp and gate scanner. Legal review of resale and securities rules in parallel. Dry run with 200 staff in February.
Opt-in window. Four venues and 32 artists sign: dates held, price set, listing fee paid.
Founders' round opens. 3,000 tickets at $100. Simulated sell-out in five days. Market switches on.
Ten weekly rounds, venue first, set times last. Ballots close Fridays.
Five waves at market price up to capacity. Artists announced in the order the crowd chose them.
The show. Gate scanning and identity checks tested on site. The crowd that booked it is in the field.
The natural second event is the total solar eclipse that crosses Australia on 22 July 2028, with one legal wrinkle to plan around: New South Wales and Queensland cap ticket resale at 10% above face, while Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not.
Every number on this slide is a simulation built on the placeholder rates. It exists so the model can be argued with. Venues and artists are invented.
Tickets issued. 3,000 founders at $100, then 9,000 in five waves at $165 to $210.
Scanned at the gate, 95% of tickets issued.
Primary ticket sales across founders and waves.
Traded on the market across 18,000 trades, 1.5 per ticket.
Platform revenue. $98,625 primary fee, $144,000 resale fee, $18,000 listings.
Event net for the promoter, after $1.78M of costs and $455k on site.
Average turnout across the ten rounds. Lowest 80%, highest 91%.
Last trade before the gate, on a ticket that started at $100.
| Week | Decision | Winner | Price after | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venue, founders only | Redgum Flats, 12,000 capacity | $104 | 91% |
| 2 | Headliner | Nova Fenwick | $138 | 89% |
| 3 | Second headliner | Glass Harbor | $131 | 86% |
| 4 | Support, wave 1 | Four of twelve | $152 | 84% |
| 5 | Support, wave 2 | Four more | $149 | 85% |
| 6 | Late-night stage | Silent disco and electronic | $160 | 82% |
| 7 | Camping and comfort | Glamping tier, quiet camp, showers | $158 | 80% |
| 8 | Art and installations | $60k commission budget | $171 | 83% |
| 9 | Food and drink | Local-producer shortlist | $175 | 81% |
| 10 | Set times | Nova Fenwick closes Saturday | $190 | 88% |
Four tickets per verified person, every trade on the platform with a fee. A ticket bought to flip is a ticket that voted, paid, and can be seen. That is the opposite of a bot farm.
The cap is per verified identity. Swinging a headliner vote would take 750 real people. At which point they are just the crowd.
If the event is cancelled, every holder is refunded what they paid, from escrow the contract holds. No change-of-mind refunds. That is what the market is for.
They cannot win without signing first. Every ballot option has confirmed dates and a price before the round opens.
The design answers this deliberately. The ticket is admission first. No share of revenue, no dividend, no promise of profit. Its price moves because the show it admits you to changed, the same way a sold-out ticket is worth more than a sold-in one. Legal review per jurisdiction is a line item in the ask, not an afterthought, and where a state caps resale, the contract caps it.
The Bailey Perspective built and operated the crew media platform, live switching, press desk and public galleries for an international eclipse festival in 2026, in the field, on festival WiFi, with thousands of files a day moving through it. Show of Hands is the same team pointed at the ticket instead of the camera.
Use of funds, in order: build, legal, pilot marketing, artist guarantee float. split to confirm
For festival owners: Show of Hands can run your next event's ballot and market under your brand, on a revenue share, with your crowd as the founders. Ask us about that version.
Show of Hands is a concept from The Bailey Perspective. If you own a festival, book artists, or invest in live events and want to build the first one with us, get in touch.
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Prices, fees, timelines and the ask are placeholders for discussion. The first festival on slide 8 is a simulation. Artist and venue names are invented.