Welcome to Loadout

Loadout is the one app for working bands — setlists, the stage view, gigs, audience requests, and tips, all in one place.

This series walks you through the five minutes between "fresh account" and "running a setlist on stage Saturday night." Go in order if it's your first time. Skip around if you're poking at one thing.

The first-time path

1. Create your band — name it, pick a URL slug, you're the owner.
2. Invite your bandmates — email links, two roles, accept and they're in.
3. Add your first songs — import from Spotify, YouTube, BandHelper, OnSong — or paste a ChordPro chart.
4. Build your first setlist — drag and drop, or describe the gig in plain English and let the AI draft it.
5. Take it on stage — the stage view, the autoscroll, the lyric follow, the band sync.

What Loadout assumes about you

You play gigs. You've used BandHelper or OnSong or SetBook or Stage Traxx (or a Google Doc and a prayer). You know what a chord chart is. You've squinted at a phone screen at a dim bar. You don't need anyone to explain what a setlist is.

So we won't.

When something looks ambiguous

Tip: The help drawer (the ? icon in the top nav while signed in) shows you the articles relevant to whatever page you're on. Tap it from the stage view and you get stage-view articles. From Songs, you get song articles. It's the fastest way back to the right doc.

What's next

• Create your band