A California technology company building software for the people who make celebrations happen.

Escalate Enterprises builds and operates consumer software. We are independently owned and based in Irvine, California.

We build in one category and intend to keep building in it: the live event economy. The people who get hired to make a night memorable, and the people doing the hiring.

The marketplace for live event talent.

Event hosts find and book DJs, photographers, mariachi and banda groups, bands, and dancers directly, for a specific date, without chasing quotes across five inboxes.

Comparsa is in invitation-only pre-launch beta, launching first in Los Angeles. We are hand-picking the first creatives.

Supply before demand. A marketplace is only worth opening if the people on it are worth booking. We hand-pick every creative before we open a city, rather than filling a catalogue and sorting out quality later.

The creative sets the terms. Their calendar, their rates, their work, presented the way they would present it.

Documented from day one. Escalate operates under a written operating agreement, with intellectual property formally assigned to the company and published terms, privacy, and accessibility policies for Comparsa.