Gigsmith press fact sheet
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Gigs, venues, money and late-night check-ins for working performers.

Developer: Fouled Anchor Safety LLC
Location: Northern Virginia
Label: Punchline Foundry
Founder: Nicholas Schnaufer, CIH, CSP
First released: April 24, 2026
Current version: 3.0
Platforms: iPhone and iPad
Requires: iOS 18.0 or later
Category: Business
Price: Free download; Pro: $39.99 one-time ($27.99 military). US prices. Prices vary by country.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gigsmith-gig-manager/id6759660114
Website: https://www.fouledanchorsafety.com/comedy/gigsmith.html
Web app: https://gigsmith.fouledanchorsafety.com (Pro)
Press contact: comedy@fouledanchorsafety.com

About
Gigsmith is the business tool for comedians, musicians, DJs, hosts and other performers: a gig calendar, a venue rolodex with a comedy venue database, a contact CRM, invoices, mileage and tax-year summaries. Night Watch is a personal check-in reminder for late-night gigs, and comedians can link Jokesmith recordings to specific shows.

Key features
- Gig calendar with categories, pay, mileage and expenses
- Venue rolodex plus a searchable comedy venue database
- Contact CRM for bookers, promoters and agents
- PDF invoices, unpaid tracking and tax-year exports
- Night Watch check-in reminders for late-night gigs
- Gigsmith for Web: gigs, money and venues on a computer (Pro)

About the founder
Nicholas Schnaufer, CIH, CSP, is the founder of Fouled Anchor Safety LLC. He served 20 years as an Industrial Hygiene Officer in the U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps, with two deployments aboard USS Carl Vinson, including the opening strikes of Operation Enduring Freedom, and a ground deployment with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in Al Asad, Iraq. He holds a BS in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of Georgia and an MSPH in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of South Carolina, and has more than 25 years of occupational health experience. He had the idea for field safety apps in 2010 and began building them in 2025. He took up stand-up comedy through the Armed Services Arts Partnership in 2024, which led to the Punchline Foundry apps. A foodie who loves regional differences in food, he also built the Flavor Trek Wayfinder apps.

About Punchline Foundry
Punchline Foundry is the comedy label of Fouled Anchor Safety LLC. It builds tools for working comedians: Jokesmith for material and laugh analytics, Gigsmith for running the gig business, and Riffsmith for daily AI improv practice. Founder Nicholas Schnaufer, a Navy veteran, started it after discovering stand-up at the Armed Services Arts Partnership comedy bootcamp in 2024.

Updated October 19, 2026.