Close the books in minutes, not days.

Four sold-out nights, 3,800 shifts, three agencies, a marketplace, and 600 internal staff. Under the old process, closing this out meant two weeks of spreadsheets, agency emails, and a finance lead reconstructing hours from paper. On Tuesday morning after the final, the finance lead opens Pay instead: every shift already carries its verified clock-in, breaks, and checkout from the floor.

The platform has done the sorting overnight. Roughly 3,700 shifts matched cleanly — hours × rate by location, transit-time policy applied at the gates, overtime computed for the W-2 staff who ran long on night three. What's left is 84 flagged discrepancies and 22 agency-proposed changes, each shown against the location-verified record. Accept, reject, done — the disputed line items take about an hour, not a week of email.

By mid-afternoon: itemized invoices out to every agency and the marketplace, one payroll export covering W-2, 1099, and agency labor, and custom pay fields mapped straight into the GL. And because every line traces back to a fill decision — including the day-of moves from gap analysis — the post-event review isn't archaeology. It's a report that was true the whole time.