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AV Freelance Launchpad

You already know how to run the show. Build work that belongs to you.

For event technicians who want more control over their time, clients, rates, and direction. Keep your income stable while you build a freelance runway one relationship at a time.

Find AV work Use the free Work Agent Get the $9 templates

Start free. The San Diego AV Network is an early beta for connecting technicians, production companies, and useful freelancer tools. 3DVR is not affiliated with Encore.

San Diego beta

Find calls. Find crew. Build your network.

We are starting small with the live-event community we understand. No fake listings and no paywall to join the beta.

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Workers

Get listed for calls

Tell us your roles, experience, home market, availability, and preferred rates. We will use the first listings to shape the public directory.

Join the worker directory

Companies

Post an AV opportunity

Send the role, date, location, rate, and call details. Early beta postings are free while we learn what the market actually needs.

Post a job free

Your pipeline

Track every lead

Keep applications, production companies, follow-ups, and opportunities in one place instead of losing them across texts and inboxes.

Open Job Tracker

Free freelancer tool

Know the day rate you need.

Start from the labor rate you want, then include overtime, daily costs, and a buffer for the business overhead a payroll job normally hides.

Suggested quote —

Rounded up to the next $25 so the number is easy to quote.

This is a planning tool, not tax or financial advice. Adjust the buffer for your own taxes, insurance, unpaid admin time, gear, and downtime.

Help first

The Work Agent reduces the booking admin.

Give it the information a good freelance booking manager needs, then let it reduce the admin between you and the next good call.

Know your open days

Sync Google Calendar, protect days off, or paste a schedule from an employer portal.

Read the work inbox

Scan Gmail for bookings, availability requests, rates, call times, and schedule changes.

Negotiate from rules

Compare offers with your minimum and target rates, prepare a reply, and send only when you approve it.

Open Work Agent — free

Download immediately after payment

AV Freelancer Starter Kit — $9

Prefer files you can keep offline? Pay once, return from Stripe, and download the rate card, outreach scripts, and show-day checklist immediately. The 30-day transition plan opens on the same verified purchase page. No account, call, or manual delivery is required.

Set a rate

An editable CSV with fields for your target and minimum rates, standard day, overtime, travel, gear, cancellation, and invoice terms.

Get called

Six copy-and-edit messages for warm contacts, production companies, referrals, availability, follow-up, and post-gig thanks.

Run the gig

A 19-step show-day checklist plus a four-week transition plan you can use while still employed.

Pay $9 — download immediately

Secure checkout is handled by Stripe. Downloads unlock only after the returned checkout session is verified as paid for this kit. Educational templates only; no income guarantee.

Build a runway, not a leap

Make independence boringly real.

  1. 01

    Pick your lane

    Start with the AV role you want people to call you for.

  2. 02

    Set your rate

    Know your target day rate, minimum, and boundaries.

  3. 03

    Build relationships

    Find production companies and people who can call you directly.

  4. 04

    Leave when ready

    Track repeat work until freelancing can support the life you want.