Job 02 · Research artists and venues

Go deep on the ones that matter.

Search venues and artists in plain English, open the full dossier on any of them, and pull the booking contact when you are ready to reach out. The dashboards and reports that frame the market are one click away.

See plans

01Pick the best night 02Research artists & venues 03Plan and run the tour 04Book the venue's calendar

Venue Search

Ask for the venue the way you would say it.

Type the ask. Your AI Assistant turns it into a real query over real venues, and the filters fill themselves in: state, city, capacity, venue type, the genres a venue actually books, and whether there is a contact on file.

✓Filters that mean something. Capacity as a number, not a guess. Genre from what the venue has booked, not what it says on its website.
✓Artist Discovery too. Find acts by genre, home market, venue size and where they have played.
✓Ask the Data. Count or rank venues, acts and shows by region, genre, day of week and venue size. "How many jazz acts in Illinois have a management contact" is a question, and it gets a number.

◉ MIC

Illustrative queries · results drawn from the live dataset in the app

The venue dossier

Everything about a venue, six tabs deep.

Open any venue from search, a report, the grid or a tour stop and the same dossier appears. Photos, hours, contacts and a Census read of the neighbourhood, next to every show it has hosted.

overview

analytics

calendar

demographics

01OverviewType, capacity, ages, established, address, website and socials, a plain-English summary and similar venues nearby.

02Analytics + CalendarShows over time, busiest weeknights, the genre spectrum, and every dated show the venue has hosted.

03Booking, Photos, DemographicsThe booking contact, venue photos, and Census demographics for all 50 states and DC.

Artist Analytics

Where an act plays, who with, and what comes next.

Every artist carries its show history, its markets, its venue-size progression and the acts it shares bills with. Preview the music without leaving the page.

✓The dossier. Genre, home market, states played, top venues, recent shows, socials and streaming links, all counted server-side so it loads in a blink.
✓Touring acts included. Tens of thousands of acts derived from real event listings, not just the ones with a press kit.
✓A pitch on demand. Ask your AI Assistant for a booking one-sheet and it writes one from the act's own history.

artist-dashboard

The artist dossier

Every act, three tabs deep.

Open any act from search, a dashboard or a bill and the same dossier appears: the numbers, the people who book and represent it, every dated show, and the music itself.

overview

shows

listen

01OverviewShows, upcoming dates, cities, states and venues on record, the booking and press contacts on file, bio, most-played venue and typical ticket. The one-sheet pitch and the market entry report sit at the top.

02ShowsEvery dated show the act has on record, upcoming and previous, with the venue, the city and the night of the week.

03ListenThirty-second previews of the act's own tracks, so you can hear the band before you write the email.

Contacts and the pipeline

The contact to close, and a place to run the conversation.

Discovery ends with a person. Cultivate keeps booking contacts on the venue and artist records themselves, and gives you a pipeline to track every lead from first email to confirmed.

Venue contacts

Booking email, phone, website, socials

Mined from venue sites and verified sources, kept in one place. Filter any search to venues with a contact on file.

Artist contacts

Agent, management, press

Per-act contacts crawled from artist sites and label rosters, with the role labelled so you write to the right person.

Your contacts

The people you already know

Your own contacts as first-class records, linkable to any venue, artist or tour crew slot.

The Booking Pipeline

✓Every favorite becomes a lead. Venues, artists and events you starred during research land here automatically. Add hand-entered leads for venues not in the data yet.
✓Stages, dated notes, reminders. A real notes history per lead, follow-up dates, and a My Leads tab.
✓Outreach drafted by your AI Assistant. One click writes a pitch from the venue's own booking history, ready to send from your mail.

You leave with

A contact on file and a conversation started. Next: pick the night.

Next: Find the best night →

Pipeline · sample lead

The Loving Touch

Contacted

FERNDALE, MI · BAR / CLUB · 400 CAP · ROCK / ELECTRONIC

SEP 24 · NOTE

Booker replied, open to a Thursday in November. Wants a local opener.

SEP 21 · OUTREACH · DRAFTED BY YOUR AI ASSISTANT

"You've booked 31 rock shows this year and Thursdays run light in November…"

REMINDER · OCT 1

Send three Thursday options from the Competition Grid.

Questions

Common questions.

How many venues and artists are in Cultivate?

About 80,000 venues that book live music and 63,000 artists, across all 50 states and DC, refreshed weekly.

Do venues include booking contacts?

Yes, where a contact is published: booking emails and phones on venues, and agent, management and press contacts on artists, crawled from their own sites and checked before they are applied.

Can I search in plain English?

Yes. Type what you want, such as venues under 500 cap in Nashville that book Americana, and the filters fill themselves in.

Where does capacity come from?

From the venue’s own listings and verified sources. Where no capacity is published the venue is marked unlisted rather than guessed.