Nowadays

Nowadays is an AI-native platform built specifically for corporate events, founded by MIT engineers. It attacks the most tedious stage first: sourcing. Instead of spending days researching venues and drafting enquiries, you tell the platform what the event needs, and it searches its database of more than 400,000 vetted venues, sends personalized first-contact emails, and places AI phone calls to confirm availability and chase details.

The second stage it compresses is comparison. Venue proposals arrive as a mix of PDFs and email threads; Nowadays parses them into consistent side-by-side breakdowns showing guest rooms, meeting rooms, and food and beverage line items alongside a total after taxes and fees. Because the platform is IATA-certified and books millions in events annually, it also holds preferred rates and runs automated negotiations, which it claims beats what a company could book directly.

Beyond sourcing, Nowadays covers the rest of the event lifecycle: budget forecasting and alerts, branded registration pages with payment collection, vendor consolidation under a single contract and invoice, and human event specialists who support planning through on-site execution. Staff sizes range from startups planning a single retreat to enterprises coordinating dozens of events a year, and a flight and budget estimator helps teams choose a city before committing.