Off until you say otherwise
Simply Events is a complete product with AI turned off. Every AI feature is opt-in for your team — turn on what helps, skip what does not, and change your mind anytime. Nothing on this page is required.
Optional AI
Event week has enough adrenaline — let AI take the busywork.
Simply Events runs perfectly with AI off. On, your team gets Ask Simply for instant answers from live registration data, and your event site answers attendee questions at midnight — honestly, from your own published details, with a human handoff whenever someone asks.
The ground rules
Four things that stay true, whatever you switch on.
AI in Simply Events was built the way we would want it used on our own team: opt-in, supervised, explainable, and priced in the open.
People decide; people answer
Ask Simply proposes — a person approves before anything changes. The website assistant answers — and hands the conversation to your team the moment someone asks for a person. AI here extends your people; it never replaces them.
Answers show their work
Ask Simply cites the records behind every answer and previews every change before it happens. Website conversations land in your inbox with a per-answer trace for admins. Usage is metered visibly, spending caps are on by default, and every AI price is public on the pricing page.
Your permissions are the AI’s permissions
Ask Simply can only see what the signed-in person is allowed to see — enforced by the platform, not by the AI’s good manners. The website assistant knows only the information you connect. It all runs on the same AWS infrastructure as the rest of Simply Events, and your data is never used to train AI models.
Flavor one — for your team
Ask Simply: the colleague who read everything.
Ask Simply sees your events the way you do — registrations, sponsors, vendors, sessions — but only what each signed-in person is allowed to see. Every answer links its sources; every change waits for approval.
“How is registration pacing against the last run?”
Registrations, revenue, and capacity in one answer with the live numbers linked — ready for the steering call without asking anyone to pull a report.
“Who registered twice, and who paid but isn’t registered?”
The reconciliation grunt work — duplicates, edge cases, missing payments — becomes questions with lists for answers.
“Which sponsors are missing logos or ad files?”
Deliverable status comes off the sponsor records, with a drafted chase email that sounds like you rather than a ticketing system.
“Draft shift reminders for Saturday’s check-in crew.”
Reminders, confirmations, and day-of notes start from live shift data — you approve them before anything sends.
“Create the session page for the new workshop.”
Ask Simply drafts the page in your site’s style with the registration block wired in — you polish words instead of building pages.
“What did early-bird actually sell versus regular?”
Ticket mix, comps, and net questions answered from the same records that ran the event — no export archaeology.
From the big numbers to the missing-form chase to drafting the next page — if it lives in Simply Events, you can ask about it in plain language. See Ask Simply live in a demo
On the go
Your whole system, in a back pocket.
At the venue with a clipboard in one hand, ask your phone “how many have checked in so far?” or “which vendors haven’t arrived?” — Ask Simply lives in the Simply Anywhere mobile app, made for exactly this kind of day.
Chat turns out to be the perfect mobile interface for a system like this: no menus to hunt through, no laptop to open — just the question, the cited answer, and the approval, wherever the work is happening.
The full Ask Simply, inside the Simply Anywhere appSame permissions, sources, and approvals as your deskAsk for the number on the way into the meetingReview and approve proposed changes from anywhereYour records, messages, and notifications ride along
Flavor two — for the people you serve
A website that answers back — honestly.
Attendees ask predictable questions at unpredictable hours — and every unanswered one becomes a support email or a no-show. A conversation widget on your event site answers from your published schedule and policies, registers people through your real forms, and hands off to your team when a person should decide.
“Is there a student discount, and what’s included?”
Ticket types, inclusions, and policies answered from your live event pages — then straight into your real registration form, mid-conversation.
“What time do doors open, and where do I park?”
Logistics questions get instant, accurate answers from the details you publish — the night-before flood your inbox usually absorbs.
“When is load-in, and where do I send my slides?”
The operational fine print — load-in windows, docks, deadlines — answered from your own pages, the same for the tenth asker as the first.
“What do sponsorships include?”
Packages and benefits explained from what you publish — and the serious conversation handed to your sponsorship lead with context attached.
Tune the voice per event — festival-friendly or conference-crisp — with words to use, words to avoid, and example answers that teach it your style.
The assistant is always honest about being an assistant, and a human is always one ask away — because the fastest way to lose someone’s trust is to fake a person.
Your assistant, your rules
Customization, control, and a paper trail.
A public assistant speaks for you, so you hold the controls — what it knows, how it sounds, and what it is never allowed to do.
It sounds like you
Guidance and voice settings — tone, words to use, words to avoid, example answers — teach the assistant your way of speaking. Each widget can also choose a deeper or faster AI model.
It knows what you connect — nothing else
You choose the pages, knowledge articles, and workflows behind each widget. It answers from those, says so when it does not know, and cannot wander into data you did not connect.
Real actions, same safeguards
When a visitor registers, signs up, or pays, the assistant walks them through the same verified forms and payment flows as the rest of your site. It cannot write to your data any other way.
People, one ask away
Visitors can reach your team at any point, and the assistant escalates on its own when it is unsure or the topic is sensitive. Conversations land in your inbox with full context — and offline hours are handled honestly.
Every conversation, visible
Your team can read every conversation, see what the assistant consulted for each answer, test changes before publishing, and measure satisfaction — including the questions it could not answer, so you know what to publish next.
Costs with a ceiling
AI usage is metered transparently with spending caps on by default. Plans include monthly AI credit, and live website assistants carry a flat monthly price — all published on the pricing page.
Honest answers
If you never turn AI on, Simply Events is still Simply Events.
Programming, sponsor relationships, and the judgment calls of a live event stay human. The AI absorbs the forty identical questions so your team can handle the four that matter.
And if you do turn it on, it stays optional forever — feature by feature, widget by widget, with visible usage, spending caps, and public prices.
Bring us the week-before panic. We will make it feel simple.
Show us the registration list, the sponsor tracker, and the check-in plan. We will map them to Simply Events and show you the calmer version of your next event.