You can now connect Claude, ChatGPT or Grok straight to VenueWiki. Hand your AI a venue's tech pack and it will read it, split it into suggestions and send them in for review, or ask it anything about a venue already on VenueWiki.

Your company rosters you in Connecteam, but your life's in Google Calendar or Outlook — so the roster manager books you on the day you told everyone you were away, because Connecteam never saw it. VenueWiki now syncs both ways: Connecteam shifts land in your calendar, and anything you're busy with in your calendar shows up in Connecteam as unavailability, without you typing it in twice.

You're rostered to the ivy ballroom. You search it, and you find two pages: one for the ballroom, one for ivy, each holding half of what you need. Google lists the ballroom as its own place, so adding it made a second venue. From today, a listing that's really a room inside a venue we already have gets filed as a room, automatically.

Occasionally an AV company changes a shift without asking you, or telling you. You said yes to a 10am start — but you can't make an 8 or 9am start, and nobody checked. If a company does the sneaky on you like that, VenueWiki now emails you immediately, and keeps a log of what was changed and when.

Link a rigging plot, patch schematic or spec sheet to a suggestion card and it now appears in the venue's AV manual under the right section, in the Files list and on the card itself — with the same voting as photos, and a way to add links straight from the suggest form.

Upload a loading dock policy or technical advance and VenueWiki reads the numbers — dock heights, lift dimensions, door widths, room sizes — and shows the exact line each one came from. Also: AV manuals never silently drop a contribution, and venue-wide cards finally reach their pages.

Upload a technical advance or dock policy and it is sorted into AV manual cards for review. Rigging gets its own category. Record every lift and loading dock a venue has, with dimensions. Attach PDFs and CAD drawings, or link Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint and Sync documents, to any card.

You can now add yourself: flip on self-polaroid from your profile, pass the photo check, and your card shows up at the venues you work — supplier badge and all. First one went live at the MCA the same day it shipped. Faces on walls, the proper way.

Not every event in your calendar should tell a roster you're busy. Now you can exclude them — by tag, or by colour — and they won't mark you unavailable. Recolour or retag an event and the sync respects it retroactively. Your calendar, your rules.

Venue pages now have a staff wall: polaroid cards of the crew who work there, added by venue managers. Walk into a venue already knowing who's who — names, faces, roles. It's the green-room corkboard, except it's there before you are.

If your company rosters through Humanity, they can now connect it to VenueWiki once and every matched crew member's shifts flow to their own calendar automatically. That's three roster systems live — Rentman, Deputy, Humanity — with Humanforce next on the bench.

Working for more than one company? You can now give each connected company its own colour — AV1 in one, Scene Change in another — so a glance at your week tells you who the gig's for. Works on Google Calendar and Outlook. And yes, one of the yellows is called "JJ Yellow" in the picker. The crew know why. Colour per company is part of VenueWiki's Calendar Sync.

Every spec on a venue page now carries its provenance. Anything unconfirmed wears an UNVERIFIED badge, and when two crew independently submit the same correction, the page updates to the crew-sourced value — no committee, no gatekeeper. What you read is what the room actually is, because the people in the room said so.

Not everyone lives in Google Calendar. Calendar Sync now writes to Outlook too — same automatic sync, same updates and cancellations, pick whichever calendar you actually look at.

The early pages had to come from somewhere. The deal was simple: invite-only beta, and anyone with 10 approved contributions before July 31 locked in membership free for life. The founding crew who took it built the backbone of the manual — and they never pay. That offer's closed now, but it's why the good venues already have good pages.

If your company rosters you through Rentman or Deputy, your shifts now land straight in your Google Calendar — new gigs appear, changed times update, cancelled gigs vanish. Rentman runs two-way: block out a day in your personal calendar and your Rentman availability updates itself. No screenshots, no double-entry, no "hang on, i'll check the app."

VenueWiki is a shared field manual for event venues — loading docks, patch, power, house rig, room by room — written by the techs who actually work them. It's in closed beta now, with venues across Sydney already documented. If you know a venue like the back of your hand, this is where that knowledge stops walking out the door every time someone changes jobs.