Amsterdam – September 19, 2026 -- ABOSS, the Amsterdam-based operating system for live music, said roughly $1 billion in deal value is moving through its platform this year, while artist-owned records account for just 4% of that volume.
Booking agencies still run deals through email and spreadsheets, ABOSS founder says
"After all those years, deals are still made on relationships, and they're still being executed in chaos," said Arvid Silos, founder of ABOSS. "If your data lives in inboxes and spreadsheets, you're leaving margins on the table."
ABOSS has spent a decade building infrastructure to connect booking agencies, artists, managers and crews on a single structured record, covering contracts, financial tracking, planning and pre-production.
Platform splits control between two linked environments
The Agency Platform lets booking agencies manage deals, contracts and logistics, while Artist Pro gives artists and their teams access to the same underlying data. The architecture determines who owns operational records, historically held by agencies or scattered across inboxes, yet despite a decade of availability, only about 4% of the roughly $1 billion in deal value processed this year runs through artist-owned records.
Mobile app and open API extend the record on tour and into third-party tools
A mobile application brings schedules, travel and operational data offline for touring teams, with automated summaries. ABOSS exposes its records through an open API, allowing external tools to build on top of the same data layer.
SAPPS AI plugs AI-native micro-apps into ABOSS's structured data
SAPPS AI, a platform-agnostic AI-native micro-app layer for live music, uses ABOSS as a data supply system. According to ABOSS, AI models require data that is structured, owned, secure and current to specific business cases, treating the operating system as infrastructure rather than a substitute for AI tools.