Concerts, festivals & stadium shows
Big rooms and big gates. Watch the arrival curve and catch the entry bottleneck before it becomes the story of the night.
For organizers and venue owners
Know who actually came. And what's going wrong while you can still fix it.
Blend'n checks attendees in against your venue's geofence, so you know who turned up rather than who said they would. Then it reads the event's own chatroom as it happens, so the live view shows you the bar queue is the problem tonight, while the doors are still open. Afterwards it tells you the thing every organizer sells and nobody measures: whether anyone actually met anyone.
Free while we are building. We will tell you before that changes.
Live now
Inside now
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Entry rate
42/min
▲ median 31
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What Blend'n does
What ships today
Attendees already use Blend'n to find events and talk to each other in a pseudonymous chatroom. You get the operational side of that: verified attendance, and the problems named while you can still act on them.
Attendance
GPS-verified check-in
Check-in is validated against a geofence — a circle, or a polygon you trace around the building — with the device's own reported accuracy folded into the decision.
Check-in · GPS verified
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1 rejectedAn RSVP is a promise. A check-in inside the fence is a fact.
Live view
What the room is doing, right now
How many people have checked in, the arrival curve as it draws, and entry rate against tonight's median — with alerts that fire on combined signals rather than one twitchy number.
- Checked in so far, updating live
- Arrival curve and entry rate
- Compared against tonight's median
A strong sample, not a turnstile count: it sees attendees who checked in on their own phone. The count is cumulative for now — automatic check-out is built on the server and waiting on the app, so it is in "building next" below rather than here.
Capacity
When the room goes over its number, you see it
Check-in does not turn anyone away at capacity. Your geofence covers the queue on the pavement, so refusing the hundred-and-first person would have denied them the chatroom and quietly erased them from your attendance — you would have finished the night believing 100 came when 120 did.
So capacity became something to watch instead. A room over its stated size shows up while it is happening. Blend'n tells you; it does not stop anyone at the door. That is the door's job, and the fire officer's.
Occupancy counts everyone in the building, crew included, because a headcount for safety counts bodies rather than job titles. How full the room is runs off guests only, so four crew do not fill a room of four.
Issue detection
Problems named while the doors are open
Every message in the event chatroom is sorted into an operational category, so a cluster becomes visible as it forms. Reports matching safety_conduct escalate regardless of tone — a calmly worded report of being followed is an incident, not a mildly negative data point.
It reads the chatroom, not the room: people who are not typing are not represented, so treat it as a strong sample rather than a census. It surfaces on the live event screen — Blend'n does not send a push notification to your phone.
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Afterwards
Feedback in a 24-hour window
Collected and categorized while people still remember the night, not a week later when they don't.
Built for all kinds of events
From fests to forums
Campus fests & hackathons
Multi-day, multi-venue, run by volunteers. Verified check-ins per session, and a chatroom that tells you which hall has no water left.
Marathons, runs & rides
Start pens, water stations, bag drop. Geofenced check-in works across a course, not just a door.
Conferences, summits & expos
Registration desks and session entrances are the classic jams. See which track is overfilling while there is still time to move people.
Markets, exhibitions & private events
Smaller rooms, tighter margins. Know who actually came, and hear about the queue before the reviews do.
Why list with us
The gap this closes
Not "more engagement". Something narrower and more useful: you find out what is going wrong while it is still fixable.
- 01
Today you find out afterwards
The feedback loop runs on post-event surveys. Those get 5–15% response rates (Explori), and attendees forget roughly half within an hour and 90% within a day (SurveySensum).
- 02
So the loop is one event long
By the time you read it, the night is over. You learn in time for the next one. And when attendees see nothing change, they stop answering at all (Explori).
- 03
Live alternatives ask too much
Real-time sentiment lets organizers "start fixing potential problems on the spot" (Stova) — but the existing routes need facial recognition, biometrics, emoji polls, or QR and NFC taps (Qualaroo). Enterprise platforms ship sentiment tooling too, but it reads surveys and polls someone chose to answer — so it inherits the same response rate.
- 04
Blend'n reads a chatroom they already use
No hardware, no polls, no facial recognition, nothing extra asked of anyone. The conversation is already happening; we sort it into operational categories as it arrives. So the problem gets named while the doors are still open.
Chatroom · classified in real time
"queue hasn't moved in 20 min"entry_queue
"still outside, it's freezing"entry_queue
"is there another entrance?"entry_queue
entry_queue
9
facilities
2
sound_av
1
9 of 12 reports are the main gate. Not "12 negative" — the actual problem, while the doors are still open.
Feedback · 24-hour window
Window closing18h left
"sound cut out during the set"sound_av
"bar ran dry by 10"food_drink
"couldn't find the exit"wayfinding
"mix was way too loud"sound_av
sound_av
14
food_drink
9
wayfinding
4
Attendance you can trust
RSVPs are a promise. A check-in validated against your geofence is a fact. Staff the door against the second one.
The bottlenecks are predictable
Registration areas, session entrances, escalators and narrow aisles are where crowds jam (fielddrive). Knowing which one is going wrong tonight is the hard part.
The room itself
Venue owners see utilization per room and which organizers are worth re-booking, with ratings that stay attached to the building rather than the event.
Why not the big platforms
Built for events where nobody registers
Event platformsBlend'n
AssumesPlatforms: A registration desk and a badgeBlend'n: A door and a phone
Live signal fromPlatforms: Badge scans, or a poll someone answersBlend'n: Messages people are already sending
Fitted in the venuePlatforms: Scanners, RFID readers or smart badgesBlend'n: Nothing
PricePlatforms: From $7,800 a yearBlend'n: Free
Cvent, RainFocus, vFairs, Bizzabo and Swoogo run registered conferences properly — ticketing, badges, sponsors, agendas. If you need those, use them.
The detailed comparisonIf you own the building
Everyone in the building, not just this event
A venue running two events at once has two correct occupancy figures and no building total. Blend'n counts everyone inside, crew included, against the capacity your building is licensed for — not the sum of the events'.
It comes from check-ins rather than bookings, which is also the difference between what a room was sold for and what it held. A strong sample of people who checked in on their phone, not a turnstile count.
What Blend'n gives venue ownersUtilization per room
Which spaces earn their keep, and which sit empty on a Friday — from check-ins, not from what was booked.
Who is worth re-booking
Organizer history across every event they have run in your building.
Ratings that stay with you
Attached to the venue rather than the event, so they accumulate instead of resetting.
How it works
Three steps, no sales call required
We are early and we would rather say so than invent a case study. Here is exactly what happens.
- Step 1
Apply, and we check you out
You verify your email and tell us about your organization. Every application is reviewed by a human before an account opens. Venue owners verify the domain that proves the building is theirs.
- Step 2
Publish the event
Set the geofence — a circle, or a polygon traced around the building. Attendees find the event in the app and check in when they physically arrive.
- Step 3
Watch it run, then read the room
Live headcount and arrival curve while doors are open. Chatroom reports sorted into operational categories as they land. Then a 24-hour feedback window, already categorized.
Start step one
Free while we are building. No card, no tiers, no pricing page.
Not built yet
What we are building next
None of this exists today. It is here so you can see where the product is going, and so nothing above this line is overstated.
Occupancy that falls as people leave
The check-out logic is written and tested on the server: presence is re-checked against the geofence that admitted someone, and a departure clears them. The app has to start sending those pings before the number stops being cumulative.
Heatmaps and dwell time
Where people cluster and how long they stay. We have the check-in data; we have not built the view.
Chat moderator roles
Appointing moderators and pinning messages in your event's chatroom.
Custom branding
Your colours and logo on the event page attendees see.
Featured placement
Paid or earned promotion in the discovery feed. Needs a business model first.
City ranking
Standing against other organizers in your city.
Mood signals
Sentiment beyond operational categories. We are deliberately slow here — a mood score is easy to ship and easy to act on wrongly.
Everything is free while we are building, and there are no tiers. When that changes we will tell you before it does, not after.
FAQ
Questions organizers actually ask
Including the ones where the answer is "not yet".
Still deciding whether this fits your events? Read the organizer guides — including an honest comparison against Eventbrite, Cvent and Luma.
Want to know exactly how it works before applying? The documentation covers the whole thing end to end.
Free while we are building
Two ways in
Ready to run an event on Blend'n? Apply directly. Want to see it working first? Ask for a demo and a human will walk you through it.
List your event
Takes a few minutes. You will verify your email, tell us about your organization, and we review every application by hand before opening an account.
Apply to list your event