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What is Plot?

A free tool for musicians and crews to draw stage plots, write riders, and build input lists — and share them with anyone.

Plot is a free tool for musicians, bands, production managers, and technical crew. It helps you make three things: stage plots, riders, and input lists — and share them with anyone, no matter what software they use.

You can make as many as you want. Plot is always free.

The short version

The Plot dashboard showing recent stage plots and riders
Your dashboard — everything you make lives here.

You log in, you create a document, you share a link. That's the whole thing.

  • Stage plot: a drawing of your stage. Where the drums go, where the amps stand, where the lead vocal mic needs to be. You drag shapes around a canvas.
  • Rider: a written document that tells the venue what you need — audio gear, dressing rooms, catering, hospitality. Plot writes it for you in clean, professional language.
  • Input list: a spreadsheet for your FOH engineer. Every microphone, every DI, every channel, numbered in order.

You can make each one on its own, or link them together so they travel as a set.

Who Plot is for

Plot was built by people who tour for a living, so the language is built around how real tours work — not how software people think tours should work.

It fits you if:

  • You're an artist or band tired of emailing outdated PDF riders back and forth.
  • You're a production manager who wants clean paperwork without fighting Word templates.
  • You're a tour manager or FOH engineer who needs to hand something consistent to every venue.
  • You're managing a small festival stage and want to collect riders from all your artists in one place.

How the three documents fit together

A rider can embed your stage plot and input list, so one link tells the full story.

Most artists end up with one of each:

  1. You draw your stage plot so a venue knows where to put things on the floor.
  2. You build your input list so the FOH engineer knows what signals to expect.
  3. You write your rider and embed both of the above inside it, alongside anything else (hospitality, load-in requirements, catering).

When you share the rider, the recipient can click through to the linked stage plot and input list from the same page. One link to rule them all.

What makes Plot different

  1. It's actually free

    No trial, no "free up to X documents", no paywall that appears at the worst moment. You can make as many stage plots, riders, and input lists as you like.

  2. It's built for touring reality

    Language, sections, and defaults come from how real riders are written. You won't have to fight it to make a normal rider.

  3. Anyone can open what you send

    Recipients don't need an account, don't need to install anything. They click a link and see your document. If you prefer, they can download it as a PDF.

  4. AI helps, but doesn't take over

    Plot can turn an old rider PDF into editable sections, or polish your rough notes into clean language — but you stay in control. Nothing is sent anywhere without you clicking a button.

What's next

If Plot is new to you, start with creating an account. If you already have one, the dashboard tour is a good next stop.

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