Information is entered once
The negotiated fee becomes the contract line, the budget line, the invoice amount. Nobody retypes it. When it changes, it changes everywhere.
Why Kotana exists
I ran a label, Braize Records. I did what everyone in this business does: the contact in a CRM, the hold in a spreadsheet, the contract in an email, ticketing somewhere else, accounting somewhere else again. And every Monday, someone pieced it back together.
I am also a developer. I spent years building tools for other industries — industries that had long since stopped entering the same information five times.
The gap was impossible to unsee. Live entertainment carries a tooling lag nobody seemed willing to close: trade software stops before the ticket, ticketing starts after the contract, and in between there is a spreadsheet and a lot of tiredness.
I talked about it around me — promoters, touring agents, venues, festivals. The same account came back, word for word. Kotana is the answer we wished we had found: one tool, from first email to last transfer.
Franck Guérin, founder
What we hold true
The network drops, the show goes on
A basement, a field, a saturated cell tower. Scanning and payment keep working offline and resynchronise afterwards. That is not a feature, that is the job.
Your audience data is yours
The people who filled your room belong in your database, not a platform's. They are the ones who fill the next date.
The team
Five people, between engineering, product and the field.
Guérin Franck
CEO & développeur full stack
Madani Noan
Chief of Sales
Terrat Fabien
Chief of Product
Roth Mina
Product Manager & UI/UX designer
Mushio Leader
Développeur frontend