Abilene, Texas · Now signing the first residents
LoneForge Events is where Abilene books a party.
One place to find the DJ, the food truck, the photographer and the venue. Pick your date, see who's free, book them all at once, pay once. That's the whole idea.
If you're throwing a party
Three steps. One payment.
- 1Pick your night.
Quince, wedding, birthday, company party. Tell us the date and about how many people.
- 2See who's free.
Every DJ, truck, photographer and venue on the floor shows their price and their open dates. No calling around.
- 3Book them all at once.
One deposit, one balance, one company to call if anything goes sideways on the night. We pay the vendors.
Booking someone directly is always fine. Every vendor's page has their own phone number on it. The platform is for the nights you'd rather make one call than ten.
Tell us your dateWe're booking by hand while the floor fills. You'll hear back the same day.
What a page looks like
Every resident gets one of these.
Photos, prices, open dates, a story, and two ways to book: through us or straight to them. Here are two, one for a photographer and one for LoneForge's own gear.
Pineline Photo
LoneForgeIf you make parties happen
The deal, in one breath.
You get a page and marketing for free. You keep your own gigs. We take 15% only on the bookings we bring you, and you get 15% of our gear when it's booked at your party.
- Free
- A page we build with you: your photos, your prices, your calendar, a book button. No website? This can be it. Leave any time and it's still yours.
- Yours
- Not exclusive. Book your own way, keep your own clients, run your own ads. We take nothing from anything you book yourself.
- 15%
- Only when a customer books you through us. You set the price. Our cut comes out of it, never on top of it.
- 15% back
- When our photo booth, lights or sound get booked at a party you're playing, 15% of that goes to you. Same number both ways.
- 2 days
- We take the deposit and collect the balance before the party. You're paid two business days after the event. You never chase a check.
The math on a $1,000 booking through us
| The customer pays | $1,000 |
| You keep | $850 |
| LoneForge keeps | $150 |
| of which card processing takes about | $29 |
| and the rest runs the platform, the payouts and the marketing | $121 |
| If our $350 photo booth is at that party too, you also get | + $52.50 |
No monthly fee. No lead fees. If we don't bring you a booking, we don't make anything, which is how I want it.
Why 15% and not nothing
The platform costs money to run, and I'm the one in the middle. When a customer flakes, when a deposit needs refunding, when something goes wrong at nine on a Saturday, that's my phone. A cut of the bookings I bring in is how that gets paid for without charging anyone a monthly fee. For what it's worth, 15% is what Amazon takes from a seller; Fiverr takes 20%, the delivery apps take up to 30%, and lead sites like Thumbtack charge for every lead whether you win the job or not.
Get a pageOne email. I'll build it with you this week. Nothing to sign yet.
Who's behind this
Matthew Valdez. Abilene. Ten years in IT, three in AI.
We planned our own wedding here and made ten phone calls to ten vendors to do it. I'm building the version where it's one. If you throw parties or make them happen, I want to talk to you.
hello@loneforge.aior text the number on any resident's page