Premier Dance × Derek
Meeting Recap · April 25, 2026
For Rebecca · One read · ~3 min

Jamie wants to build the whole thing with us.

She came in asking about a registration portal. She left talking about putting Stageside under the Premier umbrella, an all-women convention, and a partnership with her CPA husband Ken.

The TL;DR

Jamie has been searching for someone like me for months and didn't know where to look. Now she's pitching a partnership — registration portal first, then everything Premier Dance touches, then the whole dance industry through her connections.

01

What she wants built.

Second Priority
The billing nightmare.

DSP makes her manually enter fees per kid. 155 kids, amounts that differ by literal cents. No itemized line items — she emails parents the breakdown of "$650 Talent on Parade" one at a time, monthly. This is Ken's territory and the reason for tomorrow's meeting.

  • Walk through Ken's master spreadsheet
  • Wire DSP API → spreadsheet → parent dashboard
  • Itemized statements parents can read themselves
Third Priority
One app for everything.

Right now: DSP, Band, TeamUp, photos, livestream, masterclasses, schedule, recital tickets, merch — all in different tabs, all in different inboxes. She wants a Premier-branded PWA where parents bookmark one thing and find everything.

02

She lit up at every idea.

This is better than any livestream app I have ever used. You are potentially sitting on a gold mine.
Jamie — on Stageside
I will always pay people for your time. Don't lowball me. I just can't pay ten or twenty thousand dollars for this.
Jamie — on the deal
Then I can use the platform of our social media to start pushing it. And I can send it to Tremaine. I can send it to Radix.
Jamie — on distribution
03

Things that came up after she warmed up.

i.
Recital livestream
300-seat venue sells out in hours. Sell streaming passes to grandparents. Pure new revenue.
ii.
Masterclass livestream
Her daughter's group in California sells crappy Zoom links and people pay for them. Premier could do it better.
iii.
Dancer "baseball cards"
Per-dancer page: photos, awards, comp results, traveling schedule. Shareable with grandma. College recruiting bait.
iv.
AI agent for parent texts
She loved this. An assistant that triages "where is comp this weekend?" so she stops answering it for the fifth time.
v.
Per-event photo dropbox
Password-protected, parents post, Jessie pulls for reels. Replace Band downloads.
vi.
Recital "who's on stage"
Same Stageside engine, just for studio recitals. Test bed for selling to other studios.
04

The reason this matters more than a registration portal.

Jamie isn't pitching herself as a client. She's pitching herself as a partner. She wants to put Stageside under the Premier Dance umbrella, push it to her parents first, and use her connections to land it everywhere else.

Her network — named in the room

Tremaine, Radix, Rubble · Justin Myers (executive director, Crunchtime / Showbiz) · Kerry LeGrand, planning a women-led convention with Jamie running it long-term · Tim, the photographer doing summer barn videography for Premier — could shoot pro marketing for the platform.

Then there's Ken. He's a CPA, runs his own firm, and runs the books for three of their businesses. He floated the idea of structuring this as a separate entity. He's the financial partner already in place.

So the move tomorrow isn't "win the registration project." It's "decide whether the registration project is the on-ramp to a real partnership."

05

What's already on the table.

$1,500 Per month · proposed retainer

Math: $10 per parent × 150 parents = $1,500 / mo. On-call model — like the well driller story. She's good with this. She has the same arrangement with the mom who built her website (invoices on her own pace, gets paid on credit).

What Ken will likely push on tomorrow: a clean scope, clear cadence, and whether this should be a separate entity or sit under Sunday Night AI.

06

What I'm walking in with.

This started as your idea on the couch a year and a half ago. Now Jamie is asking us to build it with her.