The morning a parade lines up is the one you cannot improvise.
Lanes, order, staging lengths, and step-off times on one board. Give an entry a lane that cannot hold it and Karsenics refuses, and tells you the room actually left. Lock the order and the signs print from the same board you have been working all along.
Book a ConversationA festival can absorb a late vendor. A parade cannot absorb a float that does not fit.
The lineup is arithmetic done under time pressure, usually the night before, usually in a spreadsheet, and the mistakes only show up once the street is closed and the units are already rolling in. Karsenics does that arithmetic while there is still time to fix it, and refuses the assignments that were never going to work.
- Lineups built by hand the night before
- A float that measured 40 feet turning up at 90
- Signs printed, then three entries drop and two more arrive
- Nobody at the gate knowing who is cleared to roll
From applications to step-off in four steps.
Ask for both lengths
Your application asks how much road an entry needs while it stages and how much it takes up once it is moving. Those are different numbers for anything that packs tight and spreads out, and using one for both is wrong in both directions.
Let it build the lineup
Karsenics assigns lanes and order in one pass, keeps apart the entries that should not be near each other, and sets aside anything it cannot fit rather than guessing. Every rule it had to bend comes back named, in red.
Lock it and print
Locking the order ends the drag and drop and switches to deliberate moves. Staging signs, the lineup roster, and the per-entry number sheets all print from the same board, so the paper and the screen cannot disagree.
Work the gate
Staff open one link on any phone and pick their station once, and it stays picked. Every arrival is checked against what that entry still owes, so nobody is waved through unchecked.
Built by people who have stood in the staging area at 6am.
Lanes that know their limit
Give an entry a lane that cannot hold it and Karsenics refuses, and names the room actually left. You can overrule it, and an entry you overruled is never moved again on its own.
Capacity that counts the gaps
A lane's capacity counts the space between entries, not just the entries themselves, so the number means the road you actually have.
Two lengths, not one
Staging length drives the lanes and the signs. Parade length drives the timing along the route. One number doing both jobs is wrong for every float.
Watch it before it happens
Play the whole parade down your own route at any speed and see where the gaps and the pile-ups land, before anyone steps off.
Printed signs stay true
Once the order is locked, a late arrival slots in without renumbering anybody, so the signs you already printed do not quietly become wrong.
A real gate, not a clipboard
One link per station, staying put on the device, with every arrival checked against what that entry still owes.
Everyone who touches the staging area.
One board, instead of a spreadsheet, a printout, and a phone.
Lane assignments already checked against real lengths.
One link, one station, a clear answer on every arrival.
A public map with the route and the road closures, and nothing operational.
Ready to stop building the lineup by hand?
We're welcoming a founding group of festivals, parades, and community events. Let's walk through your staging area and see what the board would look like.