Your Company's Work Deserves More Than a Lost Spreadsheet

If you run a company, band, collective or youth theatre, chances are your "production history" currently lives in:

Old brochures and posters
A half-updated "Past work" page on your site
A spreadsheet on one person's laptop
Everyone's individual memories

When funders, festivals or new collaborators ask:

"What have you made recently?"
"Who have you worked with?"
"Where has this show toured?"

…you pull from a mix of documents and guesswork.

Parts Known gives groups and companies a way to turn that into a living, shareable production archive that's useful to you and to your collaborators.

The problem: institutional memory is fragile

Companies and collectives are often held together by a small number of people doing everything. When they:

Change jobs
Move cities
Need a break

…it's very easy for history to fall through the gaps.

That history matters:

For funding applications and reports
For showing impact to partners and audiences
For remembering which collaborators were brilliant to work with
For not repeating the same mistakes with venues, touring routes and technical setups

Your work deserves somewhere more durable than a forgotten sheet.

A company page as your production archive

On Parts Known, a group is any organised entity that makes or presents work:

Theatre companies
Touring companies
Youth theatres
Bands and ensembles
Collectives and festivals
Drama/dance/music schools

Your group page can include:

About you

Name, logo, mission statement
Location(s), contact details, website and socials

Production and event history

Past and current shows, tours, concerts and projects
Dates, venues and festivals
Linked to the works you've staged and the people involved

Collaborators and alumni

Performers, creatives and crew who've worked with you
Students and graduates if you're an educational organisation

Press and recognition

Reviews and quotes
Awards and nominations

Over time, this becomes the place you point people to when they ask:

"What kind of work do you make?"
"Who have you worked with?"
"What have you done in the last few years?"

Instead of rebuilding that story from scratch each time, you can say: "Here, look."

Helping your collaborators, not just yourself

Your company page isn't just marketing; it's also a way to lift up the people you've worked with.

Each production or event:

Generates credits for performers, creatives and backstage teams
Links them to your group and to the venues and works involved
Helps their individual profiles look more complete and verifiable

So when you log your history, you're also:

Helping freelancers show their experience more clearly
Making it easier for others to see who you've collaborated with
Contributing to a more honest record of your corner of the performing-arts world

It's infrastructure for you and for them.

Opportunities and casting calls (now and later)

Parts Known also gives companies a place to:

Post casting calls and other opportunities
Attract performers, creatives and crew with relevant skills and experience
Track your opportunities in one place

In early access, the opportunities board will be relatively small—but the structure is there:

You can connect each opportunity to a work, production, venue or season
You can later search and filter by role, skills, location and more

The more of your genuine work you log now, the better these tools will serve you when the network grows.

Why use Parts Known alongside your own site?

For most companies:

Your own website is focused on the current show and basic "About" info.
Updating the "Past work" page is a chore and often gets left behind.
There's no standard way to connect your productions to the people and places involved.

Parts Known is focused specifically on:

Production history – presented consistently, across the sector
Connections – between your work, your collaborators, your venues and your writers
Discovery – so that funders, partners and future collaborators can see what you've actually done

You can:

Link to your Parts Known page from your site's "Past work" or "About" section
Use it internally as your definitive list of productions, tours and collaborators
Let your team and alumni point people at your page when talking about your work

What does it cost?

Creating a group page is free:

Basic profile (logo, about, contact)
Add productions and events
Connect to venues, works and people
Have your history appear in the wider archive

Group Pro (which Founding Companies get free for a year) adds:

Pretty URLs (e.g. partsknown.app/yourcompany)
Multiple admins for your team
Multiple live opportunities at once
Equipment-rental tools where relevant

We keep Pro deliberately low-cost, because we know most companies are running on tight budgets and project funding.

Founding Companies: free Pro for a year

During early access, we're offering:

Group Pro free for 12 months to the first 250 groups that:

Create a group page
Add at least one genuine production or event

Founding Companies get:

A Founding Company badge on their page
A year of full Pro tools at no cost
Priority support getting their back catalogue into the archive
A locked-in low Pro price afterwards if they keep it

If you're serious about your company's history and want your alumni and collaborators to benefit from it too, we'd love you in that first 250.