The platform
Most agencies license event software and pass on the cost. We built ours, because the failures are almost always integration seams — a registration list that disagrees with the door, a rooming file the hotel cannot read, leads that arrive a fortnight late in the wrong shape.
The operating views
Pick a desk to see what it shows. The rows are drawn for illustration — the shapes are the real ones.
Progress, approvals and money in one place, with what is waiting on you at the top. An approval that is blocked behind an earlier one is not listed, because a queue full of things you cannot action is a queue people stop opening.
| Waiting on you | Status |
|---|---|
| Approve gala venue — Hall B | Today |
| Sign off delegate categories | In 2 days |
| Change request CR-014 — 40 extra rooms | Quoted |
| Production design v3 | Approved |
Committed against approved budgetUSD 612,400 / 690,000 | |
Desk by desk
The same six desks as the console above, written out in full — each one a view of the same event record.
Client view
Progress, approvals and money in one place, with what is waiting on you at the top. An approval that is blocked behind an earlier one is not listed, because a queue full of things you cannot action is a queue people stop opening.
Travel desk
The travel desk groups people by departure city, because that is how the money and the risk actually behave. Ticketed, held and unassigned are separate states, and arrival waves drive the transfer plan.
Visa desk
The visa desk ranks by risk, not by status count. Passport validity, missing documents and no appointment are the three things that stop a delegate at the gate, so they sit at the top of the list as a call sheet.
Rooming
Rooming is where automation usually embarrasses everybody. Ours shows its reasoning, refuses to break a hard rule to improve a score, and leaves genuinely unmatched people unmatched rather than guessing.
Exhibitions
Floorplan, stand allocation, exhibitor manual and a matchmaking engine that fills toward each hosted buyer’s quota rather than maximising a total score — and reports who is short, because that list is a set of phone calls.
Live board
On show days the board answers one question — where is everybody right now. Check-in is idempotent, so a re-scan is not a second person. The close-out report that follows includes the incidents and the budget variance on purpose.
Same record, different view
A closed internal conference and a trade show are the same software and almost nothing else. Picking the event format switches on the modules that apply — visas and rooming for one, stands and hosted buyers for the other — and the switches then belong to the event rather than to the product.
| Who | What they see | How they get in |
|---|---|---|
| Client | Progress, approvals, budget position, change requests | Gated behind a signed NDA |
| Operations | Programme, people, travel, visa, rooming, space, budget | Per-key permissions |
| Delegate | Pass, agenda, documents, transport, support | Personal credential |
| Exhibitor | Stand, staff, meeting diary, leads | Partner credential |
| Door staff | Scan and check-in only | Device credential with a PIN |
Rules that are not negotiable
These are the constraints the platform is built on. Each of them makes something slightly less convenient for us and considerably safer for you, which is generally how that trade should go.
Every portal user gets a login ID and a key. The key is generated, hashed and handed straight to the mailer — we never see it and there is deliberately no way to reveal it, so "send again" mints a new one. One sign-in page routes each credential to the right portal, which means a six-hundred-person mailing carries one link and one instruction.
Not hidden — refused. If an event does not run visas, the visa endpoint returns nothing at all. That also means somebody probing the system cannot map which modules a client runs.
The client sees 41 of 60 visas approved. They never see whose passport expires in March. That distinction lives in the software rather than in whoever assembles the report — the response shape is the access policy.
Totals, margins, head counts, QR payloads and readiness scores are never taken from a request body, and one pricing function serves the proposal, the budget and the P&L — so the three cannot disagree with each other.
Passports and visas are encrypted before they reach storage, not merely sitting on an encrypted disk. Every read is logged against a person, documents carry a retention date, and without the key upload is refused rather than falling back to storing the file in the clear.
Ticket tiers, session capacity, check-in re-scans and coach manifests. A badge scanned twice is not a second person, and a coach cannot be over-allocated because two people assigned at once.
Honest limits
Every platform page on the internet lists features. Here is the other half, because you will find out anyway and it is better you hear it now.
PDF goes through a shared service; today the admin prints from the browser.
Exhibitors do. A room release or a driver assignment still comes by email.
We run them through your existing survey tool and fold the results into close-out.
It is the system our programmes run on, and it is included in the work.
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A login ID and a key that we never see — generated, hashed and handed to the mailer. There is deliberately no way to reveal it, so "send again" mints a new one.
The client sees that 41 of 60 visas are approved. They do not see whose passport expires in March. The response shape is the access policy, not a template decision.
Not merely hidden. If an event does not run visas, the visa endpoint returns nothing at all — so a probe cannot map what a client runs either.
Passports and visas are encrypted before they reach storage, every read is logged against a person, and they are purged on a retention date. Without the key, upload is refused rather than stored in the clear.
We will configure a sandbox event with your formats, categories and approval rules so you can walk the client view and the delegate view before deciding anything.
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