How it works

A specialist desk, with software that makes the contest honest.

Not event-management software. Not a venue directory. More than fifty cities have their own guide; send any city.

  1. 01

    You send the meeting

    Forward the brief you would have emailed to hotels. City, dates, people, must-haves. We lock it into one comparable package so every quote is like-for-like.

    Rooms, food and drink, AV, bedrooms and cancellation terms, all fixed before any hotel sees it.

  2. 02

    Hotels quote the same thing

    We source comparable properties in the city you named and bring them on for that brief. No extras hidden in a PDF. Incomplete offers show as incomplete.

    A round needs at least three comparable offers before it can open.

  3. 03

    They compete, live

    You open a reverse auction. Price can only go down. Hotels see their own rank and the price to beat — never each other. You award on best value, not a hunch.

    Anti-sniping extends the deadline when a bid lands in the closing window.

  4. 04

    Finance gets a figure

    The savings proof is the awarded total versus the average of confirmed comparable offers on that same package. You file it. The booking contract is still directly with the hotel.

    Every proof is hashed, printable and reproducible under its recorded scoring profile.

The output

One document finance can file.

Awarded total, the confirmed-offer basis, the saving, the method, and a SHA-256 hash of the proof. Sourced quotes a hotel has not confirmed are excluded from the basis.

Sample savings proof
Illustrative · not a live booking

Leadership offsite · London · 40 people

One locked package · 4 confirmed comparable offers

Awarded total
£9,850.00
Average of 4 confirmed offers
£11,175.00

Saved versus 4 confirmed offers

£1,325.0011.9%

Method: awarded total versus the average of confirmed comparable offers on the same locked package. Sourced quotes a hotel has not confirmed are excluded. Not a guarantee of future savings.

proof · sha-256 · 3f9c…a1e2 (sample)

Ready to run a contest you can defend?

Send the meeting you were about to email around. Our service is free for buyers; you pay only the hotel.