Built to save time, streamline the budgeting process, and give you clarity and control at every stage.
Drop in a brief or a past budget — Piper turns it into a structured draft with categorized line items, ready to edit.
The blank page is the worst part of any new event. Piper reads your brief — headcount, format, venue, scope — and generates a structured starting point with the categories and line items that actually make sense for the event.
Drop in last year's file and Piper adapts it. Paste an email brief and it becomes a budget. You're editing within minutes, not hours.
| Line Item | Qty | Rate | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| AV & ProductionGenerated | $105,000 | ||
| 12 line items | |||
| Venue & CateringGenerated | $179,000 | ||
| 9 line items | |||
| AccommodationGenerated | $61,000 | ||
| 4 line items | |||
| Staffing & CrewGenerated | $69,000 | ||
| 18 line items | |||
| EntertainmentGenerated | $28,000 | ||
| 3 line items | |||
| Subtotal | $442,000 | ||
| Agency Fee · 15% | $66,300 | ||
| Contingency · 5% | $22,100 | ||
| Total | $530,400 | ||
Enter numbers and line items yourself, or drop them in from an email, a vendor estimate, or a written or verbal prompt.
No single way to get costs into a budget works for every situation. Sometimes you're typing manually. Sometimes you're forwarding a vendor email. Sometimes you're reading from a call and just need to speak it.
Drop Zone accepts all of it. Paste, upload, type, or dictate — Piper places it in the right category and moves on.
Piper picks up your typical markups, line items, and contingency habits — and applies them to every new budget.
Every event professional has a style — a standard markup, a go-to contingency percentage, categories they always include, line items they never forget. Right now that knowledge lives in your head or in copy-pasted templates.
Piper captures it automatically. The more you use it, the more it sounds like you — and the faster a new budget comes together.
Switch between clients and projects from one sidebar. Each one comes with its own saved rate cards.
Running multiple clients means juggling multiple rate cards, markup structures, and naming conventions. House Accounts gives each client their own space — with the preferences, rate cards, and history that belong to them.
Switch from one client to the next in a single click. Nothing bleeds across. Nothing gets shared by accident.
A dedicated, view-only space for clients to review, comment, and approve. No more email chains or formatting headaches.
Sending a budget as an Excel file means it comes back with changes you didn't ask for, questions buried in email threads, and no clear record of what was approved.
Client Side gives your client a clean, read-only view of exactly what you want them to see. They comment in context, approve with one click, and the signed-off version is locked in Piper permanently.
Discuss any line item without leaving the budget.
Budget decisions live in email threads, Slack messages, and meeting notes. Six weeks later when a line changes, no one remembers the context — or even that a decision was made.
Piper puts the conversation directly on the line item. Comment, reply, tag a teammate, resolve when it's handled. The full context stays with the number — forever.
Get one anytime: Piper flags missing contingency, markup gaps, and scope holes.
The budget looks complete. But is there a contingency line? Is the markup consistent across every category? Did you budget for photography even though it's in the brief?
Piper's Second Opinion runs a quiet review whenever you ask — or automatically before you send anything to a client. It catches the things that are easy to miss when you're moving fast.
Every change tracked, with live and approved states you can roll back to.
When a client asks "why did this line change?" or your finance team wants to know who approved the AV increase — the answer should be one click, not a dig through email.
Piper logs every edit automatically. Who changed it, when, and what it was before. Live versions keep moving. Approved versions are locked. You can roll back to any state at any time.
Your margin, recalculated in real time with every change.
The hardest part of an event budget isn't building it — it's knowing whether you're still making money as it changes. Costs shift, scope expands, and headcount moves. Every adjustment changes the margin.
Piper recalculates your gross margin and bottom line with every edit. You always know exactly what you're working with, before the invoice goes out.
Every project, client, and margin in one place. A view from the top of your whole studio.
When you're running five events at once, you need to know at a glance where you stand — which projects are healthy, which are drifting, and where to focus.
Top Line pulls every active project into a single studio dashboard. Budget totals, margin percentages, approval status — all live, all in one place.
Join event professionals already using Piper to build cleaner budgets, collaborate without confusion, and know their numbers at every stage.