Editors

Every event on Showout passes through an editorial process — part human, part purpose-built software.

What editing a calendar means

Aggregating events sounds like a plumbing problem. It's actually an editorial one. Sources disagree about dates. Venues change names, move, or close. The same show gets announced five different ways in five different places. A listing that says "this weekend" means something different depending on when it was written.

Before an event reaches the calendar, it gets:

• Verified — the date, time, and venue are checked against the original source, and suspicious listings (a "festival" that's really five separate nights, a date that reads like an address) are flagged and reviewed.
• Deduplicated — when the venue, the promoter, and a newsletter all announce the same show, you see it once, with the best information from each.
• Placed — mapped to a real venue with a real address and neighborhood, so "where is this" always has an answer.

Who the editors are

Right now the editorial team is small — honestly, it's mostly one person and a lot of software built to be a very careful assistant. The software does the reading (hundreds of sources, every day); humans set the standards, review the edge cases, and fix what slips through.

We'd like that team to grow. If you know your corner of Seattle's scene — music, art, comedy, food, anything — and you care about it being represented well, get in touch. Contributing editors help us catch what software can't: the unlisted show, the venue that quietly closed, the listing that's technically accurate and completely wrong.

Spotted an error?

A wrong date, a duplicate, a cancelled show still listed — email hello@showout.ai and it gets fixed. Corrections are treated as bugs, not feedback.