Demand
Repeat organizers
Community groups, workshop leaders, and small teams planning meetups, classes, and offsites. The value proposition is less coordination work across each event.
Investor overview
The place to bring
a gathering together.
EzGathr connects the space, the organizer, and the guest in one event workflow. Our thesis: making the whole gathering easier creates a reason to return for the next one.
Working product demo · Proposed Richmond-area pilot · Commercial model under validation
The problem
Booking a room is only the beginning.
A gathering can mean a venue search in one place, a quote by email, invitations in another tool, and a guest list in a spreadsheet. Changes to the room, date, or capacity have consequences across all of them.
EzGathr is being built around that coordination problem. The venue and the event share a workflow, so organizers can move from finding a suitable space to managing participation and running the day.
Initial customer focus
Start local. Earn the next gathering.
The proposed starting market is Richmond and the surrounding region, with a focus on organizers who gather people repeatedly and hosts with suitable spaces.
Supply
Local space operators
Studios, meeting rooms, community spaces, and other permitted venues. The value proposition is clearer requests, explicit house rules, and organized booking operations.
Participation
Guests and attendees
A clear event page, the right way to RSVP or register, and useful arrival information. A good guest experience supports the organizer's next event.
Product position
A marketplace with a reason to stay.
Venue discovery is an entry point. The longer-term opportunity is the operating relationship: the organizer keeps the event, participation, and venue context together, while the host manages the space and its requests.
The product also supports the case where an organizer already has a location, or needs a space without public paid registration. These entry points let the workflow fit the gathering.
Our differentiation hypothesis is continuity across venue and event operations. Repeat use, reliable local supply, and a useful history of past gatherings could strengthen that position. Customer preference and defensibility still need to be demonstrated in a live pilot.
Proposed business model
Revenue aligned with useful activity.
These are proposed revenue streams, not current revenue or final pricing.
15% of each paid booking
Venue booking fees
Proposed as a commission on the rental and any required cleaning, with no cost to list: a $400 rental pays the host $340 and the platform $60 before costs.
4% or 2% of paid registrations
Registration fees
4% on Pay as you go, 2% with Organizer Pro. Free RSVPs carry no fee, and card processing is separate.
$29 a month
Organizer Pro membership
Event series, audience tools, team access, and reports across events for recurring organizers. At $2,000 a month in paid registrations, Pro saves $11 after its subscription.
The economics we need to prove
Booking and registration fee revenue plus subscriptions must cover payment processing, refunds and losses, support, acquisition, and operating costs. The pilot should measure contribution per completed gathering and organizer repeat use before expanding acquisition spend.
Evidence today
A product you can walk through.
The demo demonstrates implementation. Its sample activity is not customer traction.
Implemented in the demo
Space discovery and comparisons; gathering setup and event pages; venue requests and house rules; RSVP, registration, and waitlist scenarios; event workspaces and check-in; simulated payments, refunds, and financial records.
Still to validate for a live service
Real host supply and demand, live payments and payouts, production communications, operating procedures, legal agreements, and sustainable unit economics. This site reports no verified customer, revenue, booking-volume, or retention metrics.
Pilot plan
Milestones that reduce uncertainty.
A proposed sequence for validating the business, with expansion tied to evidence.
- Bookable spaces
- 10
- Local organizers
- 20
- Completed events
- 30
- Paying Pro members
- 5
Proposed targets for a 90-day Richmond-area pilot, counting completed events and actual payments rather than listings or free trials. Measures of success: half of organizers booking again within 30 days, and at least $40 of contribution per booking.
01 · Prepare
Recruit a focused local cohort
Work with prospective hosts and repeat organizers on a defined set of gathering types. Validate permitted uses, availability, pricing, and the practical support needed.
02 · Prove
Complete real gatherings
After launch prerequisites are met, measure request-to-book conversion, host response time, completed events, cancellations, support effort, and contribution per event.
03 · Repeat
Test retention before expansion
Track returning organizers, repeat bookings, host retention, and willingness to pay for subscriptions. Use those results to decide where and how to grow.
Capital priorities & risks
Fund the path from demo to repeat use.
Proposed capital priorities are product and payment readiness, local host onboarding, organizer acquisition experiments, and the operations needed to support completed gatherings. Allocation and milestones belong in a diligence conversation.
The central risks are building enough suitable local supply and demand together, converting requests into completed bookings, managing cancellations and support costs, and earning repeat use in a market with established venue and event tools.
We are seeking conversations with investors and pilot partners who understand local marketplaces, event operations, or software for small businesses. No raise amount, valuation, financing instrument, or closing date is announced on this page.
Let's talk
See the workflow. Discuss the business.
Start with a product walkthrough and a conversation about the pilot, commercial assumptions, and what needs to be proven next.
This page is informational and is not an offer to sell securities or a solicitation to invest. Plans are subject to change. Investment discussions require separate diligence and documentation.