General Session Scope & Crew Scaling

The Estimator's Framework: Anatomy + Scaling

A general session is scoped through two coupled tools: a component anatomy (a department-by-department completeness checklist of the gear) and a crew-scaling model (how labor grows with the show). The anatomy tells you what gear lines must exist; the scaling model tells you what labor lines must exist. Together they let a technical director scope a show from a thin brief, gap-check a vendor bid for holes, and size crew, deferring exact dollars to the resolved rate card. The governing principle is to teach the structure, not to invent numbers.