A crewing marketplace for Australia’s live events industry

TechnicalTalent connects experienced audiovisual technicians with the production companies that need them — across corporate events, tours, festivals, clubs and streaming. Live entertainment came out of the pandemic with a serious skills shortage: plenty of work, not enough crew, and no good way to find the right people at short notice. TechnicalTalent set out to fix the matching problem, and needed a platform robust enough to carry an industry’s hiring.

The problem: crewing by phone tree

Finding crew for a show has always run on personal networks: a production manager rings the technicians they know, and if they’re booked, rings the people those people know. It works until it doesn’t — a festival needs a dozen specialists across audio, video and lighting, or a corporate job needs a streaming technician in another city. Skills are specific, reputations matter, and none of it was captured anywhere a production house could actually search.

The approach: a full-stack platform, web and mobile

We built the platform on a Next.js full-stack architecture — one codebase carrying the public site, the application logic and the real-time features a marketplace depends on, designed around the complex data relationships between technicians, skills, equipment and events. Alongside it we delivered a native mobile app, because technicians live on their phones — backstage, in transit, on the road.

The matching is the product: advanced filtering by skills and equipment, profile matching that connects the right technician to the right job, endorsements built from real work history, and integrated messaging so hiring happens inside the platform rather than around it. Membership is vetted — technicians join with an ABN and demonstrated industry experience — so production houses know who they’re getting.

The outcome: discovery to placement, one platform

TechnicalTalent now covers the engagement end to end: a production house posts the job, filters the field, checks endorsements, messages candidates and confirms the booking without leaving the platform. Technicians carry their reputation with them from show to show. What used to live in one person’s phone contacts is now an open, searchable market.