About GrooveGrade

Festival Rats Turned Industry Watchdogs

We’re just a bunch of jaded festival regulars who got tired of:

• Paying $500 for porta-potty dystopias
• Watching corporate fests recycle the same lineups
• Hearing about "community vibes" from brands that exploit theirs

So we built GrooveGrade—a crowd-powered rebellion disguised as a review platform.

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Our Story: From Campfire Rants to a Movement

In 2023, three festival survivors huddled together after:

• Dylan (CEO) sold out another merch drop for his brand The Wobble Factory—but couldn’t ignore how festivals nickel-and-dimed his community.
• Chris (CTO) spent his 10th year in tech thinking: "Why do ticketing apps suck this bad?"
• Maddie (CMO) watched "sold out" fests have half-empty VIP sections (marketing lies, exposed).

With Imran and Beckett (ex-VICE journalists who’ve seen all the backstage drama), we spent 18 months turning campfire complaints into a weaponized review platform.

Now? We’re launching to arm attendees with truth—and terrify bad festivals into reform.

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Meet the Rebels

🎪 Dylan Scully, CEO
Merch anarchist. Sound Haven’s sponsorship wrangler. Once crowd-surfed 300 yards to protest a $20 water bottle.

💻 Christopher Cuartas, CTO
Decade in tech, zero patience for broken apps. Built GrooveGrade to survive mosh pits and monsoon rains.

📢 Maddie Snyder, CMO
Exposed "sold out" scams. Believes marketing should serve fans, not fests.

✍️ Imran Hafiz & Beckett Mufson (AUX)
Ex-VICE journalists. Professional hype-killers. Wrote the book on festival chaos (literally).

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Why Trust Us?

• We’ve lived every fail we’re fighting:
  • Dylan’s merch empire proves he knows fan culture.
  • Chris built tech that won’t crash during your sunrise set.
  • Maddie’s "Festival Autopsy" reports go viral for a reason.