A California technology
company building software
for the people who
make celebrations happen.
Escalate builds and operates consumer software in one category: the live event economy. The people who get hired to make a night memorable, and the people doing the hiring.
Escalate Enterprises builds and operates consumer software. We are independently owned and based in Irvine, California.
We build in one category and intend to keep building in it: the live event economy. Comparsa is the marketplace for the people who get hired to make a night memorable. ESC·ALATE is the operating workspace we run the company on.
The marketplace for live
event talent.
Event hosts find and book DJs, photographers, mariachi and banda groups, bands, and dancers directly for a specific date, without chasing quotes across five inboxes.
Comparsa is in an invitation-only pre-launch beta, launching first in Los Angeles. We are hand-picking the first creatives.
Comparsa.ai
One instrument panel for the
whole operation.
Home, Strategize, Tasks, Academics, and Business on one surface: the pipeline, the plan, and the day, without five apps disagreeing about what matters.
Atlas is the assistant inside it. It briefs you in the morning, keeps the day honest, and asks before it acts. No decision moves without you.
Live event talent is one of the last large categories still booked almost entirely on word of mouth.
A host planning a wedding or a quinceañera ends up chasing quotes across five inboxes with no way to compare real work side by side. A DJ or a photographer who is genuinely good stays invisible outside the network they already have. Both sides lose to the same missing piece, and that is the piece we are building.
Three principles guide how we build, open markets, and earn trust.
Supply before demand.
A marketplace is only worth opening if the people on it are worth booking. We hand-pick every creative before opening a city.
The creative sets the terms.
Their calendar, their rates, and their work, presented the way they would present it.
Documented from day one.
Escalate operates under a written operating agreement with company-owned product IP and published policies.