For attendees
Everything you need to walk in prepared.
Five things, each doing one job: find the room, read it, reach out with intent, keep the conversation, and take on the work that comes out of it.
For attendees
Everything you'd do on the way there — done properly.
The events worth your evening, one card at a time.
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.
- Right for interested, up to save, left to move on
- Distance shown from your location or your town
- Not many nearby? It switches to a list and offers to widen your radius
Read the room before you're in 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.
- Shortlist the people you'd genuinely like to meet
- A second pass turns your shortlist into a considered one, not an impulse send
- Free shows you 30% of the room; delegates and Premium Members see all of it
A limited number of asks. So each one lands.
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.
- Capped per event — 2 on Free and delegate access, 10 as a Premium Member
- One nudge per person per event. No second bites, no pestering
- Accept, decline or ignore — declining is easy, and nobody's embarrassed
Small threads that end in a real meeting.
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.
- One inbox for what's waiting on you, what you sent, and what's live
- No read receipts, no typing indicators, no pressure to be always-on
- After the event, log a verified introduction — confirmed by the other person
The work that comes after the handshake.
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.
- Three short answers to pitch: what you bring, a relevant example, your availability
- Owners triage privately, and can open a one-to-one thread to ask a question
- Every pitch is answered — silence is closed out honestly at the decision deadline
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. Projects are part of Premium Membership.
Founding members
The first rooms are being built now.
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.