How it works
Four moves, and the awkward bit disappears.
Most networking is a lottery: you turn up, you hope, you leave with a pocket of cards and no follow-up. Here is what The Gantry does instead, in order.
How it works
Four moves, and the awkward bit disappears.
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.
Find the Room
Swipe events near you, filtered by how far you'll travel and how far ahead you plan. Interested, saved, or not this time.
Read the room
Once you're going, see who else is. Each card leads with what they're working on right now.
Nudge with intent
Shortlist the people you are interested in meeting, then send a nudge that breaks the ice.
Keep the thread
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.
The window
It starts before the event, and it does not stop at the door.
A room is only useful either side of the evening itself. The Gantry opens 14 days before an event and stays open for 7 days afterwards, because that is when the preparation and the follow-up actually happen.
14 days before
The room opens. Read who is going, shortlist the people you want to meet, and spend your nudges deliberately rather than in the queue for coffee.
On the day
You arrive knowing names and knowing why. Accepted nudges have already opened a thread, so the first conversation is not an introduction.
7 days after
Send post-event connection requests to the people you actually met. After that the window closes, which is what stops it becoming another inbox.
Then it is yours
Accepted connections stay. Threads stay. The room closes but the relationships it produced do not depend on it.
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.