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AI workforce for Event Planning Operations

AI agents for operations teams in event planning

Actionist is an AI automation tool whose agents operate the apps your event ops team already uses, from rebuilding the cue sheet after every supplier change to one current version and clashes flagged early.

Event ops teams get back the hours lost to cue sheet rewrites, supplier reconfirmation, and load-in juggling.

Your AI workforce
30 hrssaved on avg per person / month
$1,080avg saved per person / month
27avg scheduled jobs a week
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How it works

AI Employees for Event Planning Operations in 4 simple steps

  1. Manual Time

    We'll go over where you currently waste your time doing manual tasks.

  2. Actionist Automations

    We'll show you exactly how Actionist can automate these manual tasks.

  3. Your Benefits

    How much time and money you'll save by onboarding AI agents.

  4. Easy to use

    We'll show you how easy it is to enable AI across your business.

01

Where you spend your time

Why Event Planning Operations teams switch

We know how your week actually goes

What matters to you
  • One cue sheet, always the current one
    Every vendor works from the latest run-of-show, not the version emailed on Tuesday before the caterer moved.
  • Suppliers confirmed before they are needed
    Caterers, AV crews, and rental houses are reconfirmed a week out, and a quiet one is flagged while there is time.
  • Agreements signed, not just agreed
    A vendor contract that is still unsigned ten days from load-in is chased before it becomes a verbal booking.
  • Trucks that do not collide at the dock
    Arrival windows are slotted against the venue's dock rules so the florist is not queued behind the staging crew.
  • Certificates and permits on file
    Insurance certificates, licences, and fire sign-off are tracked against the venue's deadline, not found missing.
  • Built around your site-day stack
    These are examples. Build a custom agent for whatever your operations team repeats before the doors open.

And hundreds of other tasks you do manually..

An agent can take a lot off your team's plate. Take a look below to see the time and cost you could save by adding AI agents to your Event Planning Operations team's day.

The problem

Where the hours go

  • The run-of-show changes six times in event week, and each change means someone re-checks every cue that follows it and re-sends a PDF, so half the vendors end up working from a version that is already out of date.

    An agent keeps one cue sheet, diffs each revision against the last, flags any cue that now clashes, and drafts the change note for every vendor, so each one works from the current version.

  • A caterer or AV crew goes quiet in the last week and nobody notices until load-in, because reconfirming every supplier's timing and crew size one message at a time is the job that slips when the floor plan is also changing.

    An agent reconfirms every booked supplier on a schedule a week out, logs each reply, and flags the ones who have not answered, so the gap is found while there is still time to replace someone.

  • Two trucks arrive for the same dock slot and the venue's loading hours are tight, because vendor windows are juggled by hand across a dozen emails and a half-updated sheet.

    An agent fits every vendor's requested arrival into the venue's dock rules, flags overlaps, and drafts the revised window for each supplier, leaving you to approve the final order.

  • Insurance certificates, alcohol licences, and fire sign-off are discovered missing on the morning of the event, because each lives in a different inbox and nobody owns the checklist against the venue's deadline.

    An agent tracks every certificate and permit against its deadline, drafts the request to each vendor with the venue's wording, and flags any that lapse before the event, so the paperwork is on file before the doors open.

02

Actionist Will Automate

Anatomy of an automation

What one automation looks like

Trigger·Seven days before load-in, every event
Trigger
Step 1
Actionist
Schedule fires seven days before load-in at 08:00
Confirmation
Step 5
Human
You review the exceptions, decide any supplier swap or timing change, and approve the reconfirmation drafts
Saved per run
~2 hrs
Runs / week
~1×
Every supplier is reconfirmed and every clash is found a week out, while there is still time to fix it
A week in the life

A week with your Event Planning Operations agents

27Scheduled jobs
6Agents at work
24/7Always on
Agents
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Apps

Some of the apps for your Event Planning Operations team

Some of the event operations apps your agent operates for you. Hundreds more are in the Actionist App Store.

Triggers

Your Agent wakes up Automatically whenever something happens

Your agents watch the apps you already use and act the moment something happens, usually within about a minute, handle it based on your instructions, 24/7.

WhenA supplier emails a new arrival time or crew sizefires within about a minute
The agent automatically

When a caterer, AV crew, or staging company writes in with a new arrival time or a different crew size, the agent reads the message within about a minute, applies it to a draft version of the run-of-show, checks the dock schedule for a clash, and posts a plain list of what moved. Nothing goes back to any vendor until you approve the draft.

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Your benefits

Manual vs agent

Where the time goes back

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Operations
    180 min / week
    Rebuilding the cue sheet after each change

    A planner edits the run-of-show, scans every cue after the change for knock-on effects, and re-sends the PDF to each vendor group, usually while also answering the venue.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent versions the cue sheet and lists what moved

    An agent saves each revision, lists the cues that shifted, checks them against the dock schedule, and drafts the note for each affected vendor, held for your approval.

  • Operations
    150 min / week
    Reconfirming suppliers one by one

    A planner writes to every caterer, AV crew, and rental house to confirm timing and crew size, then searches the inbox for who has replied.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent reconfirms and flags the silent ones

    An agent drafts each reconfirmation for approval, logs every reply against the booking, and lists the suppliers who have not answered after two days.

  • Operations
    120 min / week
    Juggling dock windows across emails

    Vendor arrival requests arrive by message and are slotted into the venue's loading hours in a spreadsheet that is half a day out of date by the time anyone reads it.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent builds the dock schedule and flags overlaps

    An agent fits each request into the venue's dock rules, orders heavy kit first, flags overlaps, and drafts revised windows for your approval.

  • Operations
    100 min / week
    Chasing certificates and permits

    Insurance certificates, licences, and fire sign-off live in separate inboxes, and the checklist is rebuilt each time the venue asks what is outstanding.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent tracks paperwork against the venue's deadline

    An agent keeps one compliance sheet, drafts the request for each missing document with the venue's wording, and flags any policy that lapses before the event.

  • Operations
    90 min / week
    Reconstructing site day from messages

    After the event someone scrolls the group chat to work out what was short, what was damaged, and who signed for it, before the rental house's invoice arrives.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent keeps the issue log and drafts the claim

    An agent logs each issue with its owner and photos as it happens, reconciles rental returns, and drafts the supplier claim, ready for your review.

+ 100s of other automations
Average monthly
28 hrs / person / month
ROI

What that's worth

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
3 people
Hourly rate
$36 / hr
Hours saved / week
21
Hours saved / year
1,050
Annual ROI
$37,800

Based on typical team usage: the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~7 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

04

How easy it is to use

Automatic onboarding

We'll do all the heavy lifting for you.

From entering your website address to having a working AI team, no effort from you.

  1. Step 1

    Enter your website

    • We'll research your business
    • Automatically configure everything for you
    Try the demo
  2. Step 2

    Actionist Auto

    Optional
    • Watches you work
    • Creates your agents, workflows and schedules
    Get the extension
  3. Step 3

    Marketplace

    • Hundreds of apps, plus agents and workflows
    • Pre-configured by other users
    Browse the App Store
  4. Step 4

    Invite your team

    • We'll automatically onboard them too
    • Focus on the things that matter
    Open Actionist

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See exactly what Actionist would automate for your business.

Trust & control

You stay in control

An agent that touches your run-of-show and supplier relationships only earns trust if you stay in control. Actionist is built so you see everything it changed, approve anything that reaches a supplier or the venue, and own every record it keeps.

Supplier and venue messages wait for approval

A reconfirmation, a contract chase, or a revised dock window is drafted and queued for your sign-off. Nothing reaches a caterer or the venue on its own unless you widen that autonomy yourself.

Cue sheet changes are shown, not hidden

Every revision is saved as a new version with a plain list of what moved, so you can see exactly which cue shifted and put the old one back.

Full audit trail of every vendor record touched

Each contract status, certificate request, and dock slot the agent logged is recorded with a timestamp, so a dispute about who was told what has a clear answer.

Your supplier terms and plans stay yours

Rates, floor plans, and vendor contacts are encrypted and never used to train any model. Self-host on a VPS if the whole stack needs to stay on your own infrastructure.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does my event operations team need to be technical to use Actionist?
No. Actionist is built for event operations teams, not developers. You describe how your run-of-show, supplier confirmations, and load-in schedule work in plain language, connect the apps you already use, and the agent does the rest. There is no code to write, and most tools need no API set up because the agent operates them the way a person would.
How do I get started with an operations agent for our events?
Book a free demo and an Actionist team member will walk through your biggest site-day pain point, whether that is cue sheet versions, supplier reconfirmation, or dock scheduling, and set up a working example you can test against a past event. Most teams have a first operations agent running within a day of the demo.
How do I make a customised AI agent for how our operations team runs an event?
Tell the agent which role it plays, which tools it may open, and which steps need your sign-off. For the cue sheet you say which sheet is the source and who must be told about a change; for load-in you give it the venue's dock hours and your preferred vendor order. It applies those rules every run, and you adjust them as the way you run events changes.
How quickly can I set an event operations agent up?
A basic agent, such as one that compares each run-of-show revision and posts what moved to Slack, can be running within hours of your demo. Workflows spanning several tools, like supplier reconfirmation tied to a dock schedule, typically take one to three days to tune. You test against a past event before it touches a live one.
Our venue's floor plans and run-of-show live in files and portals with no API. Will it still work?
Yes. The agent uses computer use in the cloud: it opens your spreadsheet, the venue's portal, or a drawing viewer the way you do, reads what is on the screen, and updates the fields. That means it can work with CAD exports, venue booking portals, and tools that have no supported integration, because it is operating the actual interface.
Will the agent email a caterer or the venue without me seeing it first?
No. By default anything that reaches a supplier or the venue, a reconfirmation, a contract chase, a revised dock window, or a damage claim, is drafted and waits for your approval. The agent queues it in Slack or your inbox and only sends when you confirm. You can widen that autonomy for steps you trust, but external messages ask first.
A supplier changes timing on the morning of load-in. Can it keep up?
It picks the change up from your inbox within about a minute, applies it to a draft of the cue sheet, checks the dock schedule for a clash, and posts what moved to the event channel. The scheduled checks run at the same cadence on a heavy event week as a quiet one, so the planner is told about the change, not left to spot it.
Is this replacing our production managers and site leads?
No. Reading a room, deciding a supplier swap, and talking a caterer through a late change stay with your team. The agent takes the version control, chasing, and checklists that crowd out those jobs. Decisions on who to book, who to replace, and what goes on the contract are always a person's call.
Where does our supplier and venue data live, and is it used to train AI models?
Your supplier terms, floor plans, and contract data stay yours. Everything the agent reads and writes is encrypted, and none of it is used to train any model. Every action it takes, from a contract status update to a drafted claim, is logged in a timestamped audit trail. If you need everything on your own infrastructure, you can self-host Actionist on a VPS.
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See an agent keep your cue sheet current and reconfirm every supplier

Book a free demo and watch an Actionist agent diff a run-of-show revision, flag a dock clash, and draft the supplier reconfirmations for approval, end to end.