Sprinter Investor Overview
AI-Powered Tour Planning Engine
Currently in MVP development phase. Not seeking investment at this time.
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$31B
Live Music Industry
Patent
Algorithm Pending
Q1 2026
MVP Launch Target
The Problem
Tour planning is broken. Artists and managers face critical challenges when booking tours. Routing decisions are based on intuition rather than audience demographics, leading to poor market selection. Capacity mismatches are common—artists play 200-capacity venues when they could fill 800, or book 1,000-capacity rooms that sell only 300 tickets.
Poor routing adds thousands in travel costs and causes artists to miss high-demand markets entirely. The manual research process for cities, venues, and demographics takes weeks of work. Most critically, there are no validation tools to prove demand before committing to deposits and promotion.
The touring industry operates on spreadsheets and gut-feel while sitting on terabytes of unused demographic data.
The Solution
Sprinter uses AI to convert streaming demographics, social engagement, and market economics into accurate ticket projections, optimized tour routes, and shareable tour maps. Our proprietary algorithm analyzes DSP listener density by city across Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. It factors in social media follower geography and engagement rates, local market income and spending power, genre-specific conversion patterns, and travel logistics for routing optimization.
Patent Pending Innovation
The output delivers predicted ticket sales, recommended venue capacity, optimized routing, and revenue projections in minutes instead of weeks.
How It Works
Data Integration
Artist connects DSP accounts including Spotify for Artists, Apple Music, and YouTube, then uploads social media analytics. Sprinter ingests city-level demographics automatically.
Demand Calculation
Patent-pending algorithm calculates sell potential scores using DSP listeners, social followers, engagement rates, and market income factors, multiplied by genre-specific conversion rates.
Interactive Heatmap
Visual map displays demand intensity by city with color-coded markers. Click any city to see predicted ticket sales and venue recommendations instantly.
Tour Builder
User inputs starting city, travel mode, skip days, and tour length. Sprinter generates optimized routing using distance calculations, demand-weighted pathfinding, and date scheduling logic.
Exportable Tour Maps
Shareable visual tour maps with Sprinter watermark for social media distribution, creating viral organic growth while artists promote their tours.
Market Opportunity
Market Size
The live music industry generates $31 billion globally as of 2024, with the US touring market alone accounting for $12 billion annually. Our target users include over 2 million actively touring artists and 50,000+ managers and agents.
Revenue Model
Pro
$29/mo
Unlimited tours, DSP auto-sync, route optimization
Team
$99/mo
Multi-artist management, venue database, deal tracking
Agency
$499/mo
White-label, API access, custom integrations
Total Addressable Market
At just 1% conversion, 2 million touring artists at $29/month represents $58 million in monthly revenue, while 50,000 managers and agents at $99/month adds $5 million monthly. Conservative 5-year projection shows $15 million ARR at 3% market penetration.
Competitive Advantage
Current Market
Spotify for Artists shows listener cities but provides no venue recommendations or routing capabilities. Chartmetric and Soundcharts offer analytics dashboards without tour planning features. Bandsintown and Songkick focus on event listings with no demand prediction. Traditional booking agents rely on manual processes and gatekept industry knowledge.
Why Sprinter Wins
First-Mover Advantage
No platform combines DSP data, social analytics, routing optimization, and venue matching in a single solution.
Viral Growth Mechanic
Watermarked tour maps create free distribution as artists share their tour announcements, similar to how Triller grew through watermarked videos.
Disintermediation
Empowers artists to make data-driven decisions without relying solely on agent intuition and industry gatekeeping.
Network Effects
More users generate better conversion data, leading to more accurate predictions and a more valuable product for everyone.
Strategic Partnership: Indie On The Move (IOTM)
Potential collaboration with IOTM's venue database would give Sprinter access to 10,000+ independently verified venues with contact info, capacity, and booking details—creating an unmatched data moat and seamless booking workflow.
Beyond Music: Multi-Industry Expansion
While starting with musicians, Sprinter's algorithm applies to any touring professional—comedians, podcasters, motivational speakers, DJs, and more. The TAM multiplies 5x when expanding beyond music.
Strategic Acquisition Target
Natural fit for Live Nation, CAA, UTA, Bandsintown, Spotify, or major record labels seeking tour planning technology.
Product Roadmap
Phase 1: MVP Foundation
Weeks 1-4In ProgressDSP data ingestion via Spotify API, interactive demand heatmap, basic tour routing algorithm, exportable tour maps with watermark, CSV upload for social data.
Success Metric: 100 beta users generate 500 tour maps
Phase 2: Scale & Automate
Weeks 5-12OAuth for Apple Music, YouTube, Instagram. Automated social media analytics parsing, venue database integration, advanced routing optimization, revenue projection calculator, mobile-responsive design.
Success Metric: 1,000 active users, 50 paid conversions
Phase 3: Monetization
Weeks 13-24Freemium paywall implementation, Team and Agency tiers with white-label options, API for booking agencies and labels, deal memo and contract management, Ticketmaster/Eventbrite integration, machine learning model trained on actual show outcomes.
Success Metric: $25K MRR, 10 agency partnerships
Phase 4: Market Expansion
Months 7-12International market expansion covering UK, EU, and Australia. Genre-specific optimization models, venue marketplace with direct booking integration, historical performance tracking, merch sales projections, festival routing optimizer.
Success Metric: $100K MRR, 10K active users
Phase 5: Platform Play
Year 2+Full tour operations suite covering travel, lodging, and logistics. Promoter network and bidding system, fan pre-sale demand validation tool, partnership with insurance providers for tour cancellation coverage. Position for acquisition.
Exit Metric: $5M ARR, acquisition by Live Nation, Spotify, or major agency
Technology Stack
Frontend
React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Mapbox GL JS
Backend
Supabase (PostgreSQL, Auth, Storage)
APIs
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Instagram, Mapbox
Algorithms
Haversine distance, nearest-neighbor routing, genetic optimization
Hosting
Vercel (auto-scaling, global CDN)
Patent Status
Algorithm pending (Sell Potential Score + routing system)
Go-to-Market Strategy
Artist Direct (Months 1-6)
Beta launch with 100 hand-picked indie artists. Product Hunt launch, Reddit outreach in music communities, TikTok and Instagram content strategy featuring "I built an AI to plan my tour" narratives. Watermarked maps create organic viral loop.
Manager/Agent Partnerships (Months 7-12)
Outreach to boutique management companies. Free Team tier for first 50 agencies. Case studies showing ROI such as "Saved $15K in bad routing." Conference sponsorships at SXSW, A2IM, and Pollstar Live.
Label Integration (Year 2)
White-label offering for label A&R and marketing teams. API access for tour planning within existing label workflows. Co-marketing with DSPs including potential Spotify for Artists feature integration.
Funding Status
Current Status
Not Seeking Investment At This Time
Sprinter is currently in active MVP development and private beta testing phase. We are building product-market fit with early adopter artists and collecting validation data before considering external capital.
Future Funding Plans
Once we achieve 1,000 active beta users, 50 paid conversions, and proven demand prediction accuracy with 75%+ correlation to actual sales, we will consider a seed round of $500K to $1M to hire 2 engineers (backend and ML specialist), hire 1 music industry BD lead, accelerate venue database integration, and scale marketing and user acquisition.
Estimated timeline for fundraising: Q2 2026
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Last Updated: December 2025 · Version 1.0 - MVP Development Phase