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What this is, who it is for, and what it costs you in time.
ConferenceOS is a conference management platform that runs the full event lifecycle — call for proposals, schedule, registration and ticketing, sponsors, onsite check-in, communications, and post-event reporting — in one system. What makes it different is that it is built so the AI assistant you already use can work inside it: not just answer questions about the event, but complete real work, with your approval and a record of what changed.
Two groups. Event organizers running conferences of roughly a few hundred to a few thousand people who are tired of stitching six tools together. And technology companies that want to embed a full conference platform in their own product under their own brand.
An afternoon for a straightforward event. You connect your AI assistant, describe the conference, and it creates the event, applies your branding, and drafts your ticket tiers and CFP. You approve before anything goes public. There is no mandatory onboarding engagement.
No. Every part of the platform has a normal interface with buttons and forms. The AI connection is an accelerator, not a requirement, and you can hand a colleague the console without teaching them a single prompt.
No. Built-in ticketing runs through your own Stripe account, so the money is yours and lands on Stripe's normal payout schedule rather than being held until after the event. But if you would rather keep the ticketing you already use — Luma, Eventbrite, or anything else with a ticket page — you can point your event at that URL instead. The public Register and Buy buttons then link straight there and native checkout switches off. That is a hand-off rather than a sync: those registrations live in that system, not in ConferenceOS.
Honestly, we are still working that out. ConferenceOS came out of running our own conference, and we have not yet decided whether it becomes a community project or a business. We would rather tell you that than post a price we would have to walk back later. One thing we can say now: it will not be priced as a cut of every ticket you sell. Getting tired of a ticketing platform taking a percentage and sitting on the money is a large part of why this exists, so rebuilding that on the other side would defeat the point.
The questions that matter most are rarely the ones on the feature list.
You do. Registration runs through your own Stripe account, so ticket revenue lands in your bank on Stripe's normal payout schedule. We never take custody of your funds, hold a reserve against them, or make you wait until after the event to get paid. This is one of the sharpest differences between us and platforms that collect on your behalf.
You own it. Your deployment is an isolated instance with its own database. There is a full REST API with scoped keys, portable exports, and a one-click configuration backup that pushes to a GitHub repository you control. Leaving should be a decision, not an engineering project.
No. Attendee data belongs to the event. The platform includes consent capture with withdrawal, per-channel communication preferences, and GDPR and CCPA export and erasure workflows.
Three things that exist today, and one that does not yet. Every AI action is scoped to the role on its key, so the assistant simply cannot reach what that role cannot reach — and a key with no role is read-only. Keys issued for one event are pinned to that event. Every call is written to an audit trail with what changed and when. The CRM write tools return a preview by default and only commit when you say so. What is not built yet: a blocking approval queue that holds every write until a human releases it. Today the bound is the role and the audit trail, not a stop-and-wait gate on all writes. A wrong answer at a live event is public and permanent, so we would rather say exactly where the line is.
No. The attendee experience is an installable web app: it works in the browser, and anyone who wants it on their home screen can add it in two taps with push notifications. No app store, no download friction two days before your event. Notifications are opt-in per channel.
Named honestly, hedged where it should be, and current as of July 2026.
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Enterprise suites are genuinely more capable across the widest range of event types, and they have a track record measured in decades plus support organizations we cannot match today. The tradeoffs buyers most often describe are configuration depth that expects formal training and implementation timelines measured in months. We are built for a narrower job — conferences — with setup measured in an afternoon and an assistant that can do the configuring for you. If you need a global enterprise standard across hundreds of events a year, buy the suite. We will say that on a sales call too.
This is the closest comparison, and these are good products. The meaningful differences are structural rather than feature-count: your ticket money goes to your own Stripe account rather than through the vendor, your deployment is isolated rather than a tenant in a shared system, and your own AI assistant can take approved actions rather than only reading data. Several platforms in this segment now offer read-only AI connections; the step we have taken is letting the assistant change things, bounded by the role on its key and fully audited.
Event apps are one layer of a conference — the attendee experience. We include that layer as an installable web app with opt-in notifications, and then also run the CFP, the ticketing, the sponsors, the money, and the reporting behind it. If you only need an attendee app, a dedicated app is a reasonable purchase.
Those tools are excellent at their individual jobs and hard to beat for a single simple event. The cost shows up when a conference needs six of them: the same speaker typed into a CFP tool, a scheduling tool, an email tool, and a sponsor spreadsheet, with no single place that is right. We are one system holding all of it, and with general ticketing platforms specifically, the other common complaint is waiting for your money — see the payouts answer above. That said, we do not think you should have to abandon a tool your community already lives in, so you can point the event at your existing ticket page and keep selling there while running the conference here. To be straight about the limit: that is a link hand-off, not a data sync, and we do not have a Luma API integration — we started one and removed it rather than ship something half-connected.
Sponsor lead-capture badge scanning, onsite badge printing, AI attendee matchmaking, and SMS are on the roadmap and not shipped — they are marked "coming soon" on the comparison page rather than buried. We are a young product with a small team, so we do not have a decade of references or a 24/7 phone support floor. What you get instead is direct access to the people building it.