"I want to have a two day offsite for a team of 12 in Cambridge in April."

It then started pulling up results in Cambridge UK. I meant Massachusetts. I didn't say that in the prompt, but I figured since there are two equally famous Cambridges, it would ask me for clarification.

I redid it specifying Massachusetts and it worked pretty well (although all the options it found were about double the price of what we actually booked).

An interesting idea!

BTW I didn't continue, but I assume you manage the whole booking process? How do deal with questions from the venue and other human in the loop issues?

1. Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (actually ok location) 2. Marysville, Ohio, United States 3. Lisboa, Portugal 4. Nashville, Tennessee, United States 5. Kenmore, Washington, United States 6. Golden, Colorado, United States

I would expect there to be some reviewer agent that ensures that all found locations are at least within the same country?

Another challenge is travel, e.g: scheduling an event in Europe for a distributed team of U.S. people during bad weather leads to people stranded at airports, missing the event.

I think this is a great idea, but I am surprised to learn that organizers are spending most of their time communicating with hundreds of venues. Once you have a location and budget, finding a venue is straightforward.

Huh this surprised me as a forgone opportunity.

I heard second-hand about the process for organizing our last offsite. Searching for venues was not the time-consuming part.

The time-consuming part was actually engaging with the venues to confirm specific details not available online. Our teammate who did this engaged with _hundreds_ of venues. It was a lot of work on their part ... and probably not the most fun part of their job.

That seems like an ideal agent scenario?

Haven't organized large meetups, but for regular enterprise companies this could be a difficult to buy decision, because you have ChatGPT + bunch of connectors which can get company policies.

This could be good idea for event companies who regularly schedule things, but even for them, probably difficult to justify the value when you have access to ChatGPT and other connectors

It’d be cool to offer one-off event suggestions, but I understand that’s probably not as easily monetizable.

Booking.com and similar moving into this space with their own generic AI tool.

Or even Gemini improving their UI so it presents search results more neatly.

> (2022)

Has there been a rebrand as of late? What was the product pitch before that? I guess "AI for planning company retreats" (and possibly SaaS for company retreats before that)

This capacity to pivot into these buzzwords shows that at least sometimes they are more phenomenons with marketing (or at least UX) definitions rather than technological ones.