Describe Your Night.
We'll Build It.

Most hosts don't plan an event in a spreadsheet. They plan it in their head, in a group text, on the back of a receipt: "Saturday, Dani's 40th, eighties theme, about thirty people, she loves movie trivia, do a slideshow with the photos her sister is sending." That sentence is the whole plan. The Event Builder is what turns it into a built night.

It's in the host dashboard now, for everyone, under Event Builder. Here's what it does and why we built it the way we did.

You write the brief, it does the assembly

The Event Builder opens as a chat. You drop in everything you know about the night - the crowd, the theme, the vibe, the in-jokes, the must-haves - and you don't have to format any of it. The more you give, the sharper the result, but a single sentence is a fine start.

From there it asks a few targeted follow-up questions. Not a generic intake form: it reads your brief and probes the parts that actually shape the night. Mention a wedding and it asks how the couple met. Mention music and it asks which eras to lean on. Mention a corporate send-off and it asks whose night it really is. You answer in the chat, and the plan tightens with each reply.

What you get back is a run-of-show: an ordered list of activities sized to your event. A trivia block, a karaoke set, a slideshow break, a ticker of drink specials, a poll - whatever fits the brief. You can add, remove, and reorder any of it. Nothing is locked until you say so.

The brief is the work you were already doing in your head. The Event Builder just refuses to make you do it twice.

Start from a playbook

If you'd rather not start from a blank chat, there are presets. Each one seeds the conversation with a starter set of activities and a tuned list of follow-up questions, so you're editing a draft instead of staring at a cursor:

• Wedding - receptions, how-they-met trivia, a photo slideshow, a toast-friendly run-of-show.
• Corporate - office parties and big send-offs, team-vs-team formats, sponsor-aware tickers.
• Birthday - guest-of-honor trivia, party energy, a slideshow built around the photos people send in.
• Pub Night - the weekly quiz workhorse, multiple rounds, a clean regular-night rhythm.
• Pub Trivia and Pub Karaoke - bar-shaped sessions that carry venue details, a suggested setlist, and clientele notes straight into the plan.

Pick one, tweak the brief, and you're most of the way to a finished event before you've typed a full paragraph.

Questions on tap

When your run-of-show has a trivia block, the Event Builder can fill it. Ask for a batch of questions on any topic and they're generated right into the session, saved as real questions you own. Tell it the categories and difficulty mix you want and it spreads the batch evenly across them, so a single round can run easy-to-hard or hop between three subjects without you sorting anything by hand.

Don't love one of them? Regenerate that single question in place. It comes back the same shape - same category, same difficulty, same format - and it won't hand you a duplicate of the ones already on screen. Swap until the set feels right, keep the rest.

This is the one place the Event Builder spends Brain Credits, the wallet that covers generation work across the platform. Everything else - the brief, the follow-up questions, the run-of-show, the editing - is free. You only spend when you generate questions, and a batch is usually one to three credits. The chat tells you the cost before and after, and the credit pill in the header turns amber as you approach your cap and red when it's empty, so there are no surprises.

Photos become a slideshow

This is the part testers reacted to most. If your night wants a slideshow, the Event Builder hands you a media uploader in a second tab. Drop in the photos, come back, and it notices - the moment the chat tab is back in focus it pulls in what you uploaded, ticks the task off, and shows the thumbnails in the sidebar.

One button turns those photos into a real slideshow: an image slide for every picture, plus quote slides pulled from any lines you put in quotation marks in your brief. It lands in your library as a genuine slideshow, wired into the event's run-of-show, and it opens straight in the full slideshow editor when you want to fine-tune the order, timing, and styling. The Event Builder gets you to a complete first draft; the editor is there for the polish.

It keeps your place

Putting a real event together rarely happens in one sitting. So every session is durable. Close the tab, switch from your laptop to your phone, come back tomorrow - the chat, the activities, the generated questions, and the credits you've spent are all exactly where you left them.

Two things make that work. First, a running to-do list the Event Builder maintains for you: write the brief, upload photos, build the slideshow, generate questions, set the date, finalize. It ticks items off as you go and only shows the tasks your particular night actually needs - no photo task if there's no slideshow in the plan. Second, a project page for each session: a calm, read-mostly dashboard that lays out the whole plan at a glance - progress, activities, questions, photos, schedule, recent chat - with one click back into the conversation. The chat is where you work; the project page is where you check in between work sessions.

Finalize into a real event

When the plan is ready, you set a date and time and hit finalize. The Event Builder writes everything out as the real thing: a scheduled Event on your calendar, the questions saved to your library under your account, the slideshow attached, the activities ordered and ready to launch on the night. There's no export step and no copying things across. The draft you've been shaping in the chat is the event.

From there it runs like anything else in Brainflood: a host view on your phone or laptop, a projector-friendly display on the second screen, and no app for guests to download.

Why a chat, and why no buzzwords

We went back and forth on the interface. A wizard with twelve steps felt like a form. A blank canvas felt like homework. A conversation is how hosts actually describe their events to each other, so that's what we built - and we kept the assembly fast and the credit cost honest and visible.

You'll also notice we don't dress this up as something mystical. It's an Auto tool: it automates the busywork of turning a brief into a built event so you can spend your time on the parts that need a human. That's the whole pitch. We'd rather it just work than sell you on how it works.

Where to take it from here

• Launch the app and open Event Builder from the dashboard if you're already a host.
• The weddings & events venue page - how a one-off private party comes together.
• Where we are right now - the wider tour of what's shipped.

There's a thread on the in-app forum's Host Lounge board for swapping briefs, presets, and setup notes. If you build a night with it, tell us how it lands - especially the rough edges. This is the first version, and the hosts using it are going to shape the next one.

- The Brainflood Devs

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