ShowScore

THE OFFER

After the fair, the math decides which ones you do again.

A market vendor works 5–30 shows a year and every season asks the same question: which fairs earned their booth fee again? The answer usually lives in a shoebox of receipts and gut feeling. ShowScore turns it into a repeatable ritual — the post-show score — that does four things:

• Score each worked show: booth fee, travel, other costs, revenue, units and hours become a score (0–100), a grade (A–F) and a rebook verdict — Rebook, Maybe, or Skip — measured against the vendor's own target dollars per hour.
• Rank every show side by side by profit per hour, so the season's winners and losers are obvious at a glance.
• Export the CSV, the printable scorecard, a plain-text rebook list, a season sheet (season totals, profit/hour vs your target), and a booth ask (revenue needed to clear a candidate booth fee and your hourly target) to carry into next season's applications.
• Everything runs in the browser — no account, nothing uploaded. Clear the sample before entering your own numbers.

Try it with the fictional sample first: open the working demo — "Maple & Thistle Studio" is already loaded with two shows (one winner, one loser). Score them, download the CSV, the scorecard, the rebook list, the season sheet, and a booth ask (revenue needed to clear a candidate fee and your hourly target). Nothing you type leaves your browser.

Price to test: $79 one-time setup per vendor (show import + season plan) plus $19/month optional show-tracking. That is a hypothesis, not a result — the first three vendors are free pilots (see START-HERE, step 4).

Against the alternatives (checked 2026-10-02)

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Sources: independent public sources on craft-show economics — named in the kit. See the research.

From costs and revenue to a rebook decision

The walkthrough below uses the kit's own sample files: a fictional vendor, "Maple & Thistle Studio" (target $25/hour), with two shows. The results were produced by the included engine when this page was built.

Run it yourself — the sample vendor is preloaded and nothing is uploaded.

What your client receives

The printable scorecard ranks every show before the fold: grade badges, the rebook verdict, profit, ROI and profit per hour per show, then the ranked comparison. It's a single HTML file the vendor prints or saves — no account, no cloud.

The economics, as hypotheses

Every figure below is a hypothesis unless marked measured. The same model ships in the kit (ECONOMICS.csv) with a MEASURED column for real pilots to fill in. The largest uncertainty is demand: will a vendor do post-show math at all?

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If pilots won't pay $79, lower the price or re-scope before claiming anything. All inputs and the kill tests →

How much runs by itself

The math is automated; the service is a person — honestly.

• Automated · tested The scoring engine validates every show (warnings for blanks, losses, missing hours), ranks by profit per hour, and exports the CSV, the printable scorecard, the rebook list and the season sheet. Test assertions ship in the kit and pass.
• A person Scoring a vendor's season with them, setting the hourly target, walking through the comparison, and handing over the rebook list before application season. The $79 setup and $19/month are this person's time.
• Not claimed Fair discovery, price setting, inventory tracking, tax records, automatic bookkeeping. None of these exist; the kit does not pretend they do.

Everything inside the free kit

• START-HEREThe sample vendor, the demo, and the three free pilots
• BUSINESS-PLANBuyer, offer, comparison, fulfillment, kill tests
• ECONOMICSHypotheses, labor model, the 10-vendor sketch
• FIRST-TEN-CUSTOMERSChannels, outreach scripts, what success looks like
• AI-OPERATORField list, validation rules, the season workflow, privacy rules
• LAUNCH-CHECKLISTLocal proof, pilot readiness, before paid work
• PILOTTerms and runbook for the first three vendors
• BRANDScorecard-with-grade mark, swatches, voice, honest labels
• RESEARCHSources on vendor show economics and the alternatives, named
• Scorecard app + sourceWorking browser demo, offline source, tests, sample data

Version 0.1.1 beta. Includes a file manifest with SHA-256 hashes and a license. Nonexclusive reuse; check your chosen business name before launch.

Your first three steps

1. Run the sample, then the checklist.
   Unzip, open the demo, score the sample vendor's two shows, then work through the launch checklist.
2. Run three free pilots.
   Use the first-ten-customers plan. Score one real season per vendor, and ask whether the rebook list changed their applications.
3. Make it yours, or stop.
   Re-brand with the brand guide if the kill tests pass. If visitors score one show and never compare, re-scope or stop.

Version history

• 0.1.1: Released 2026-10-02 as a working beta. Folds the booth ask into the downloadable kit (previously live-demo only); 0.1.0 stays downloadable. Passed three independent reviews (creative, functional, commercial) on the repaired revision. Demand is unproven; the kill tests in the business plan decide what happens next.
• 0.1.0: Released 2026-10-02 as a working beta. Reviewed independently for creative, functional and commercial quality before release. Demand is unproven; the kill tests in the business plan decide what happens next.

The current kit and the previous beta are both served. Retired download links redirect to this page.