About GridMagik

Built by operators. Shipped for operators.

We've run venue floors, league nights, and activations ourselves. Generic booking tools stop at the front desk; the rest of the venue ran on spreadsheets and prayer. So we built GridMagik — booking, payments, customer accounts, and live operations on one platform.

Escape rooms
One booking. Every room.
Axe lanes
Lanes & leagues, live.
Sim racing
Every rig, every lap.
All systems green

Operators running on GridMagik

Apex Sim Lounge
Redline Sim Co.
Velocity GT
Pole Position
Grid Club
Stage 14 Activations
Our mission

Be the operating system for every experience venue.

Venue ops runs on thin margins, packed weekends, and people who care about the experience. A booking that doesn’t load, a payment that doesn’t capture, a guest standing at a desk while staff hunt for a waiver — those are the small gaps that turn a Saturday into a refund pile.

GridMagik is the one platform that knows the entire visit: the slot the guest booked, the card they paid on, the room or bay or lane they sat down at, the experience they had, and the receipt that landed in their inbox. Everything connected. Nothing duct-taped.

We ship product every week. We answer support in minutes. We charge a flat subscription — and we never take a cut of your bookings. That’s the bar.

Our story

From weekend prototype to operators’ default.

Built by operators, for operators. Here's how GridMagik came together and where it's going.

01
Origin
The booking-site gap

We were running a venue and the booking site didn't talk to the floor. Operators were stitching together calendars, payment dashboards, customer email lists, and timing software with spreadsheets. The first GridMagik was a weekend prototype that closed that gap.

02
Now
One platform for venue ops

GridMagik is a unified platform for booking, payments, customer accounts, communications, and live operations. We started with sim racing centers because that's where we'd run venues ourselves; escape rooms, axe lanes, golf simulators, and VR arcades followed — same operating model, different vocabulary.

03
Next
More verticals, deeper integrations

We're expanding into more experience-based venue categories and deepening integrations with payment, calendar, and communications providers.

Values

Six things we refuse to compromise on.

We answer the phone.

Real humans, in minutes. Support runs through our engineers — not a third-party call center with a script.

Ship weekly or it didn't happen.

Every week, every team ships something customer-facing. If a quarter passes with no customer-visible change, we got distracted.

Operators own their money.

Flat subscription. No commission. No held funds. Next-day payouts to the operator’s bank — not ours.

Default to action.

A prototype on Monday beats a spec on Friday. We run small teams, ship small PRs, and measure what moves revenue.

Respect the floor crew.

Every feature is reviewed for how it plays on a Saturday at 3:02 PM with a line at the door, a guest who needs help, and a payment that didn’t post. Clarity > cleverness.

Learn in public.

We share roadmap, status, and honest postmortems. When we’re wrong, we say so — in writing, with our names on it.

Office

Based in Irvine, CA.

Email or call us during business hours and you'll reach a real person on the team.

Irvine, CA
West Coast HQ
PT · UTC−8
Careers

We're hiring builders who love operations.

Remote-friendly for most roles. Real ownership of real surfaces. Bring your keyboard and a spare Saturday — we’ll show you the floor.

Talk to us about joining
  • Senior Platform Engineer
    Engineering · Irvine, CA · Remote-friendly
  • Hardware Integration Engineer
    Engineering · Irvine, CA · Remote-friendly
  • Onboarding Specialist
    Customer Success · Irvine, CA · Remote-friendly
  • Account Executive
    Sales · Irvine, CA · Remote-friendly

See the platform your venue has been asking for.

30-minute walkthrough with an operator-turned-CSM. No slides — we’ll spin up a tenant, wire it to look like your venue, and run a session against the live ops board.

Booking
Built-in
Payments
One ledger
Operations
Live
Pricing
Flat subscription