Who it’s for.

Crew lists change by the day, the venue changes by the week, and backstage at load-in is a different place from backstage after doors. Laminate brings your crew in from the spreadsheet you already keep, credentials them at the desk, and lets each zone tighten and reopen at the times you set.

What matters most

• Postures scheduled for a set time, applying on their own or asking you first.
• Your crew list read from a Google Sheet every hour, or from a CSV or Excel (.xlsx) file, its groups and first and last days taken from your own columns.
• Wristbands handed out at the credentialing desk, each tap checked cryptographically by the device that reads it.
• Through the show, the Feed lists every admission and referral, where and when.
• A day set to wristbands only, for a venue where you would rather not use face recognition.

Someone who works only on wristbands-only days is never asked about face recognition, and no face of theirs is learned.

A small team, a principal, their family and the people around them, and an itinerary that moves between a residence, a hotel floor and a venue. Laminate holds who belongs where, from the advance to the day, and its face matching runs on the team’s iPhones and iPads.

Laminate informs; the person on the team decides.

What matters most

• Postures that admit only the groups you name, such as the security team and the principal’s family.
• An exception for one person at one zone, lasting until the posture next changes.
• Scanner, carried by one of the team, to put a name to a face and see whether they are on today’s list.
• Your own watchlist, matched only once someone at your organization has recorded the lawful basis.

The principal, the family and the team are each shown what face recognition involves before any of them is asked to agree.

The call sheet changes every day, each department has its own paperwork, and some people are on set for a single day. Laminate brings cast and crew in from your crew list with their first and last days, asks each department for what it needs before anyone arrives, and leaves the badging desk only what is still to do.

What matters most

• Each department asked for its own paperwork, as text, dates, files, signatures, photos or ID documents, with a waiver for one person.
• Agreements signed on each person’s own phone, before they arrive from a link sent by email, or at the desk from a code shown there.
• Groups by department, with first and last days, from your own crew list.
• A group lets a person in only once they have everything it requires.
• Closed-set zones, with a posture that admits only the groups you name.

Cast and crew can read what face recognition involves, and give their answer, on their own phone before day one.

Workers arrive from many subcontractors, trades come and go with the schedule, and some areas inside the perimeter are for only a few of them. Laminate keeps each company’s people and paperwork together, and gives each restricted area a zone with its own rule for who gets in.

What matters most

• Companies with requirements of their own, which replace the group’s for everyone who works for them.
• Something a company has agreed once for all its people, recorded on its page until it lapses or you withdraw it.
• A chief for each company, who sees from their own link what their people still need and can remind them.
• Your roster from a Google Sheet or a file, with each person’s company, group, first and last day and chief taken from your own columns.
• Wristbands checked at each zone’s gate, and the Feed showing who came through where.

A company’s chief sees what its workers still owe, and never what any of them gave.