Crew Tracking App for Event Production Teams
See every crew member live on an empty site. SOS fires with exact coordinates.
What it is
Every crew member appears on a shared live map in BuddySOS, and a one-tap SOS sends exact GPS coordinates to the rest of the crew, whether the site is finished or still half-built. It runs on iOS and Android.
Build and strike happen on sites that are half-finished and changing by the hour. BuddySOS keeps a production or event crew on one live map across the whole site and turns a single tap into an SOS with exact coordinates when something goes wrong.
Build and strike run on a site that matches no map yet. Load-in starts on an empty field or a bare hall, and the landmarks people would use to describe where they are get built over the next two days. Directing someone to a spot means describing what is not there.
Crews also split by trade rather than by area. Rigging, audio, lighting, and staging work the same ground on different schedules, and a crew chief who needs one person from another department has no way to know whether that person is fifty meters away or at the far gate.
Then there is the part nobody schedules. Someone goes down on a half-built site with heavy gear around them, and the crew loses minutes working out which corner they are in before anyone can reach them.
Why standard apps fall short here
- Open sites and empty fields have no signage and no clear way to direct people.
- Crew is spread across staging, load-in, and the build with no shared view of who is where.
- Departments run separate schedules on the same site, so nobody has a picture of who is on the ground right now.
- When someone is hurt on a large site, finding them costs critical minutes.
- A radio left on a charger or handed to the wrong person takes a crew member off the network for the rest of the shift.
- Radios are limited and easy to leave behind during a long build.
What BuddySOS gives you
- Every crew member's live position sits on one shared map across the whole site.
- A one-tap SOS sends exact coordinates, so help reaches the right spot fast.
- Pins carry name, distance, and direction, so a crew chief pulls the nearest person off a task rather than the first one who answers.
- A phone that loses signal in a loading dock holds its last known position instead of dropping off the map.
- Crews that work several sites keep a separate group per site and switch between their maps.
- Load-in, staging, and strike get coordinated without anyone guessing where people are.
- It runs on phones the crew already carries, visible to the crew only.
Where crews run it
Questions about BuddySOS for production & event crews
Does BuddySOS work on a site before it is built out?
Yes. BuddySOS uses GPS, so the live map works on an empty field or a half-built site as long as crew phones have a data connection. It is useful exactly when there is no signage to navigate by.
Can one crew member be in more than one group?
Yes. A switcher at the top of the map flips between groups, and each map shows only the members of that group. A touring crew group and a venue crew group stay separate.
Does it keep working when the app is closed?
Yes, as long as that person granted location permission. Their pin keeps moving in the background while the phone is in a pocket.
What does it cost to put a crew on it?
The live map and one-tap SOS are free on iOS and Android, with no charge for adding crew to a group. Each group gets one safe zone free, and zones two through five unlock by subscribing or by watching a rewarded video.
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BuddySOS is free on iOS and Android. Download it tonight, be ready for your next event by the weekend.