Professional connections
The Gantry is the support you're never given when networking. Read the room before you attend, know what makes each person interesting and give them a nudge to break the ice before you attend.
Mobile-first. Built around real UK networking events. Free to join a Room.
How it works
Most networking is a lottery: you turn up, you hope, you leave with a pocket of cards and no follow-up. The Gantry turns that into something you can actually prepare for.
Swipe events near you, filtered by how far you'll travel and how far ahead you plan. Interested, saved, or not this time.
Once you're going, see who else is. Each card leads with what they're working on right now.
Shortlist the people you are interested in meeting, then send a nudge that breaks the ice.
An accepted nudge opens a small thread scoped to that Room. Enough to learn a little more, and open a dialogue you can carry on in the room.
For attendees
Filter by how far you'll travel and how far ahead you plan — and swipe. Each Room shows the industry, the venue, how full it is and how many people share your field, before you commit an evening to it.
Once you're going, the Room opens up. Every attendee card leads with what they're working on and what they'll happily be asked about — so you're deciding on substance, not on a headshot.
A nudge is not a message request — it names an intent before it says a word. Discuss collaboration. Understand each other's work. Ask for an introduction. The recipient knows what they're accepting before they open it.
Accept a nudge and a mini-thread opens, scoped to that Room and capped at 50 messages. It exists to arrange the conversation, not to replace it — when it gets real, you move to email, and The Gantry gets out of the way.
A board seat, an advisory role, a round table, a piece of consultancy. Projects can stay invite-only inside your trust graph, or open to pitches from the wider network — with deadlines that are published up front and honoured.
Not a job board, and deliberately so. No listings wall, no public applicant counts, no value figures — the brief is described in words, and the conversation does the rest.
For event owners
Run a networking event, a chamber breakfast, a conference track or a members' club night? Upload your delegate list, hand every attendee premium access for your event, and see exactly what the room produced.
Drop in your delegate list and The Gantry classifies every row: new to the platform, already a member, or already Premium. Each gets the right invitation email — nobody is double-invited, and nobody is dropped in silence.
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Premium Delegate Access lifts your attendees above the free tier for your event only. One button grants it to everyone; the table lets you grant or revoke person by person. Existing Premium Members keep what they already have — you're never charged twice for them.
It's the difference between "we put 200 people in a room" and "we can show you what those 200 people did next".
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Not door numbers — outcomes. Verified attendance, nudges sent and accepted, connections made afterwards, and how your delegates moved through from invite to introduction. All aggregate: no message bodies, no attendee emails, ever.
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What it deliberately isn't
Plenty of products want your attention every day. This one wants about ten minutes, twice around an event you were going to attend anyway.
Nothing to scroll, nothing to perform for, and no public tallies of who knows whom. Your connections are yours and they are not a scoreboard.
Skips are visible only to their author. Pending invitees see a stripped view.
Pitches get reminders at 7, 3 and 1 days, and close honestly at the deadline with a plain message. An unanswered ask is a bug here, not a feature.
Pricing
Every plan sees every Room. What changes is how many people you can reach around each event — and, for organisers, what you can hand your delegates.
Free
Everything you need to try a Room.
Premium Member
For people whose calendar is mostly rooms.
Event owners
List, invite, and prove the value of the room.
Delegates don't pay for delegate access — their event owner grants it.
Questions
No. The swipe is a triage tool, not a matching game — it exists because reading 60 attendee profiles as a list is a chore, and because a considered shortlist beats a scattergun. There is no mutual-match requirement, no chat until someone accepts an intent-led nudge, and no way to see who passed on you.
Nothing they will ever see. Skip marks are stored against your account only, and every API and screen is built so the other person cannot learn they were skipped. It is never labelled a rejection, and it doesn't stop them nudging you.
Because unlimited outreach is what ruined the last network you left. Scarcity does the work: if you only have a few, you spend them on people you genuinely want to meet, and receiving one means something. One nudge per person per event, and the window closes when the event ends.
Premium Delegate Access for your event: double the nudges of the free tier, post-event connection requests, and full visibility of who is in the room — live from 14 days before to 7 days after. You grant it in one action after uploading your list, and any of your delegates who are already Premium Members simply keep what they have.
Aggregate outcomes: RSVPs, verified attendance from QR check-in, nudges sent and accepted, connections made afterwards, repeat attendance across your events, and a funnel from uploaded delegate to introduction made. You never see message contents or attendee email addresses — that boundary isn't negotiable, and it's what makes delegates comfortable using it at your event.
No. The Gantry is a progressive web app — it runs in the browser and installs to your home screen if you want it there. It's designed thumb-first for the walk from the car park, and it works on a desktop too.
Your profile is visible to people in Rooms you've said you're going to, and on a public profile link only if you create one. Your shortlist, your skips and your saved Rooms are private to you. Times are always shown in UK time with the right GMT or BST suffix, because a 7pm event should say 7pm.
Founding members
We're opening The Gantry with a small group of members and event owners across the Midlands and the South East. Leave your email and we'll be in touch about the next Room near you.
Event owners: tell us the event and the date, and we'll set the Room up with you.