Hot CuesFor DJs and event companies
Every formality has a track, and a spot.
Hot Cues turns a wedding timeline into a run of show your whole team works from — with the right song cued at every moment that needs one, and nothing left to the group chat at 4pm on a Saturday.
The way it goes now
The timeline is in a PDF. The songs are in an email. The changes are in your head.
Three sources, one truth
A planner's timeline, a spreadsheet of songs, and a thread of “actually, can we swap the recessional?”. Whichever one you opened last is the one you're working from.
The gaps show up at the altar
Nobody notices the bride's entrance has no track until the officiant looks at you. The list of what's missing should exist before the day, not during it.
Only you know how it runs
Send a second DJ and you send a phone call with them. What's in your head has to be on the sheet, or you can never not be there.
What a hot cue is
A processional isn't one moment. It's four — and three of them need a different song.
Every template breaks the formalities out the way they actually happen, so nothing hides inside a line that just says “Ceremony”.
The questionnaire builds itself
Click once and Hot Cues asks the couple only about the cues that need an answer — placed in the order the day runs, not in the order someone typed the form.
Answers land on the timeline
A song they pick attaches to the cue it belongs to. Say no to the garter and that cue comes off the sheet. Nobody retypes anything.
Music arrives in tiers
Everything they gave you, in one place, sorted by how much they mean it — so a request and a rule don't look the same at 10pm.
From first email to last dance
One place the whole event lives, from the inquiry to the debrief.
- Inquiry
A couple asks about your date
They land on your own sign-in page — your logo, your colors, your name on the door. No password to invent, just a code to their inbox.
- Proposal
You quote from your own menu
Services and prices you set once. The dashboard tells you which proposals have gone quiet and which calls never got their notes written up.
- Planning
They fill in the parts only they know
Hot Cues reads your timeline, works out which formalities need music, and builds the questionnaire from them — in the order the day actually happens.
- The week of
Everything lands in one sheet
Songs attach to the moments they belong to. Bridal party, parents, vendors and their arrival times sit where the DJ will look for them.
- The night
It works with no signal
Save the sheet before you leave. Tick cues off, type what actually happened, change the order on the fly. It syncs when you're back on wifi.
- After
The money, and what you learned
The balance, each DJ's share off the assignment that earned it, and a debrief while the room is still fresh in your head.
Pick your segment
The rest of the story, page by page.
- ALL WEEKThe kit
Everything the event runs on
Contracts that sign themselves into a deposit, a questionnaire that writes itself, music in tiers, money that adds up.
- 7:15 PMTheir phone
The portal your clients open at dinner
Everything the fancy planner apps do — wearing your brand, not theirs.
- 9:40 PMNo signal
The sheet that works in a barn
Saved before you leave, ticked off as it happens, synced when you're back in range.
- THE MATHPricing
One wedding pays for the year
Free runs your next three events forever. Pro is $240 a year. The math is the pitch.
- THE CREWWho builds it
A DJ company, building for its own Saturdays
Gifted Geeks runs real weddings on Hot Cues. The roadmap is public, and so is what we won't build.
The best DJ in the room is the one who already knew what was next.
Hot Cues · built by people who work weddings
Invite only, for now
Tell us about your business and we'll send you a way in.
We're letting companies in a few at a time so we can actually help each one set up. Leave your details and you'll get a private link.
- A person reads it — not a queue, and not a drip sequence.
- A private link comes back to that address when there's room. Usually within a few days.
- The link does the setup. It signs you in and creates your business in one step — no password to invent.
Already a member? Sign in here — or use your company's own sign-in page if they gave you one.