The DJ Behind GigNest

Hi — I'm Evan Eubanks. I'm a working DJ in Texas, 10+ years behind the decks: weddings, corporate events, quinceañeras, school dances, the whole circuit. Before and alongside the DJ life, I spent a decade doing outbound sales for a Fortune 50 company, where finding buyers who'd never heard of us and turning them into customers was my entire job.

GigNest exists because those two lives kept colliding.

The problem I couldn't unsee

Every DJ I know — including me for too many years — runs the business side the same way: play great gigs, hope for referrals, and refresh the inbox. Meanwhile, I spent my weekdays inside corporate sales systems watching how professional teams actually generate demand: build a list, reach out, follow up, close, repeat. Billions of dollars move through that loop.

DJs don't run it. Not because they can't — because the manual labor is brutal, the tools weren't built for it, and honestly, we became DJs to make dance floors move, not to do data entry. The CRMs I tried were either generic freelancer tools that didn't speak DJ, or bloated corporate dashboards like the ones I stared at all day at work. And none of them — not one — actually went and found clients. They all just organized the leads you already had.

So I built the thing I wanted: point it at your city, and it finds the venues, offices, schools, and planners who book entertainment. It writes the outreach, sends it, follows up, and manages everything after — proposals, contracts, signatures, deposits — until the gig is booked and paid. The parts DJs hate, automated. The parts we love, untouched.

What GigNest is

GigNest (gignest.io) is a CRM and lead-generation platform built for DJs — it finds potential clients like venues, offices, and event planners in any area, sends personalized outreach, and manages proposals, contracts, and payments in one place. It's built in Texas, priced for working DJs, and designed by someone who loads his own gear into a van most weekends.

The details DJs notice are in there because I needed them: a 2D stage builder so clients can see their actual event layout in the proposal, automatic review requests that go out while you're still wrapping cables, expense and mileage tracking shaped around a DJ's Schedule C — every gig is a drive, and those miles are write-offs — an Agency tier for multi-op operations, and a built-in music player, because working your pipeline shouldn't mean working in silence.

How I run this company

Like a fellow DJ, not a software vendor. I'm in the DJ communities daily, I onboard founding members personally, and the roadmap comes from working DJs telling me what eats their week. If you email support@gignest.io, there's a good chance I'm the one answering.

If you're a DJ drowning in the admin-and-sales side of this business — I built this for you, because I was you.