Show Must Go On · Free Pre-Event Readiness Brief
Your agenda is Plan A.Get your Plan B in two minutes.
Upload your conference or summit agenda and get a short Readiness Brief: the decisions your team must make before event day, each with a space for who owns it. Chief guest running late, a video that won't play, a panellist who doesn't show. Decide now, not on stage.
Free · No sign-up to start · Your agenda is read in memory and discarded, never stored.
A successful event is not one where nothing goes wrong. It is one where the team knows what to do when something goes wrong.
What's in your brief
A PDF your team can go through in one meeting.
Your programme, as we read it
Every session, speaker and break, marked confirmed, tentative or unknown. You'll spot what's still loose before anyone else does.
The gaps nobody flagged
Tight transitions, an opening that depends on one person arriving on time, a break with no plan to get people back in their seats. Each one explained in a sentence, specific to your agenda.
Decisions, not warnings
Each gap becomes two to four questions with a blank for a decision, an owner and a "verified" tick. Fill it in during the meeting and you're done.
Who tells the MC
A one-page table for the question that wrecks most events: when something changes, who decides, and how does the person on stage find out?
Morning-of checklist
Three things to do before doors open, so the day starts the way the brief ends.
No generic checklist. If your agenda has no videos, you won't be asked about videos.
How it works
- Drop your agendaPDF, Excel, Word or plain text. No forms, no questionnaire, nobody else to chase.
- Check what we readEvery line comes back marked confirmed, tentative or unknown, so you see at a glance what's still loose. Thirty seconds.
- Take the brief to your next meetingDownload the PDF, forward it to your team, and walk out of that meeting with every gap owned.
Built for the people who get the 6 a.m. phone call, and the ones still working past midnight
- Conference and summit organising committees
- Event management companies preparing a client brief
- Associations, chambers and institutes running annual events
- MCs, moderators and stage managers who want to walk in over-prepared
- Corporate teams running town halls, award nights and launches
Why an MC built this
I've hosted conferences, summits and award nights for years. The agenda is almost always well made. The problems come from what isn't written down: how long we wait for the chief guest, who can cut a session short, who tells me on stage that the running order has changed.
Show Must Go On asks those questions from your agenda, before the day, so the coordination meeting is about decisions instead of guesses. I use it for every event I host. Now it's yours, free.
Chinmay Ananda · Master of Ceremonies & Keynote Speaker
“He always does his homework about the event, measures the flow of events, and has excellent time management skills.”
“We had a lot of last-minute changes because it was an outdoor event, and owing to the bad weather, but Chinmay was just so adaptable.”
Questions people ask before they upload
Is my agenda stored anywhere?
No. It's processed in memory and discarded. We keep nothing: there is no sign-up and no email to give. Full details in Privacy & data handling.
What should I remove before uploading?
Phone numbers, email addresses and any personal contact details. We only need session titles, timings, speaker names and roles.
How accurate is the reading?
Good, not perfect. That's why the brief opens with the programme as we read it, so you can check it against your own. The brief says what it is: an AI-assisted reading of an agenda you supplied and checked.
Does this replace my event manager?
No. It makes your meeting with them sharper. Most of the decisions in the brief are ones only your team can take.
Why is it free?
Because it's the best way to show what over-preparation looks like. If you'd like a white-label version or want Chinmay to run the readiness session live with your team, get in touch.
Reading your programme…
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Pre-Event Readiness Brief
Your event
AI-assisted reading of an agenda supplied by the uploader. Confirm every detail with your team before acting on it.
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The programme in one breath
The programme as we read it
| Time | Item | People & roles | Status |
|---|
Minute by minute: what can go wrong, and the plan
Before you assume anything: questions for the team
Who informs the MC, and how
Fill this in during the meeting. When something changes on the day, this is the table that keeps the stage calm.
| Change | Who decides | Who tells the MC | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chief guest late or absent | |||
| A speaker or panellist drops out | |||
| Programme running over | |||
| A video or AV item fails | |||
| Running order changes |
Three things to do the morning of the event
- Reconfirm the chief guest's arrival time with the person who will actually be with them.
- Play every video end to end on the venue system, with sound, from the laptop that will be used on the day.
- Agree the overrun signal: who gives it, what it looks like, and which session absorbs the cut.
How to use this in your coordination meeting
Go top to bottom. For every question, decide, name one owner, and note how the MC and the AV team will hear about it on the day. A plan nobody has told the MC about is not a plan.
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