Nowadays

Product Introduction

1. Nowadays is an AI-powered corporate event planning platform designed to automate and streamline the entire lifecycle of organizing corporate events, including SKOs, offsites, retreats, and conferences. It handles tasks such as venue sourcing, vendor negotiation, budget management, attendee tracking, and day-of coordination through proprietary AI tools and a database of 400,000+ vetted venues.
2. The core value of Nowadays lies in reducing manual labor and costs by leveraging AI to automate time-intensive processes like venue research, proposal analysis, and vendor communication, while providing exclusive access to negotiated rates and centralized tools for travel, payments, and logistics.

Main Features

1. AI-Powered Venue Sourcing: The platform uses machine learning algorithms to instantly match event requirements with 400,000+ pre-vetted venues, suppliers, and vendors, filtering by capacity, location, budget, and amenities like A/V equipment or catering. Proposals are generated in seconds, with AI-driven comparisons of costs and terms.
2. Flight & Budget Estimator: Integrates real-time travel data and attendee-specific inputs (e.g., locations, dates, preferences) to forecast total travel costs across cities, enabling data-driven decisions on event locations while optimizing for budget constraints.
3. End-to-End Vendor Management: Automates contract negotiations, invoice consolidation, and communication with venues via AI-generated emails and phone calls, reducing human intervention. The platform standardizes proposals into comparable formats and enforces budget alerts to prevent overspending.

Problems Solved

1. Manual Planning Inefficiency: Traditional corporate event planning involves weeks of fragmented communication, spreadsheet tracking, and manual vendor research, which Nowadays replaces with automated workflows and centralized data.
2. Target User Groups: Corporate event planners, executive assistants, HR teams, and travel managers at startups, enterprises, and agencies who need to organize events efficiently without dedicated planning staff.
3. Typical Use Cases: Organizing multi-day retreats requiring venue bookings and travel coordination, negotiating bulk rates for hotel room blocks, or managing registration and payments for company-wide offsites.

Unique Advantages

1. AI-Native Architecture: Unlike traditional event platforms or human planners, Nowadays is built on proprietary AI models trained on millions of event data points, enabling real-time negotiation, cost benchmarking, and predictive budget adjustments.
2. Exclusive Partnerships: As an IATA-certified agency, the platform accesses commissionable rates and concessions typically reserved for high-volume planners, often undercutting public pricing by 10–25%.
3. Unified Platform: Combines tools for venue sourcing, registration, travel logistics, and vendor management into a single interface, eliminating the need for disjointed software like Cvent, SAP Concur, or Aventri.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. How does Nowadays reduce venue sourcing time from days to minutes? The platform’s AI cross-references event parameters (e.g., attendee count, budget, location) against its database of 400,000+ venues and historical pricing data, generating ranked proposals instantly without manual outreach.
2. Can Nowadays handle international events with complex travel logistics? Yes, the flight estimator tool factors in multi-city attendee origins, visa requirements, and local tax rules to provide accurate cost projections, while AI manages vendor negotiations in local languages and time zones.
3. How does the platform ensure cost savings compared to direct bookings? By aggregating event volume across clients, Nowadays secures bulk discounts and uses competitive pressure during AI-led negotiations, often achieving lower rates than individual corporate accounts.