# Venue Shortlist

> The space your event needs, every venue checked against it, and the contract traps priced. Enter the attendance
> estimate and the format, and the venues and dates you are weighing with what each quoted, and get the written space
> programme the rooms must hold, each option checked against it, the site-visit depth the risk warrants, and the
> contract traps (attrition, food-and-beverage minimum, cancellation curve, insurance) priced - then the brief to send
> every venue and the negotiation asks. Built on the SkillSafe skill @samber/event-venue-sourcing, from
> samber/dev-event-organizer-skills (MIT), by Samuel Berthe. Not legal advice: contract wording goes to whoever reads
> contracts for the team. The page supplies no venue prices and no hybrid or multi-venue technical specification.

https://venue-shortlist.skillsafe.ai/

## What is free
- The space programme from attendance and format: main room, track and breakout rooms (the reference's 10-20 and 20-40 mix), hallway-track space, sponsor tables, hackathon zones, registration and storage, WiFi and power (about 4 devices and at least 2.5 outlets per attendee for a hackathon; a conference borrows them only as an upper bound), load-in, setup access, accessibility, catering, overnight working and sleeping asked separately - every number of the page's own labelled self-set.
- A desk check of every venue against the identical sheet: pass, short by how much, or unknown, line by line; a short eliminating line or no live window rules the venue out.
- The sourcing ladder (free rungs first, the unwritten handshake deleted), the site-visit depth (a visit after signature deleted) and the negotiation posture (one venue on one date deleted), each re-ranked against the interview with every move named.
- The options grid of venues against windows with the quote status per cell, windows ranked by availability, and a flag on any price conversation opened before every survivor has quoted on the identical sheet.
- The contract traps priced in money: attrition and the food-and-beverage minimum at the estimate and at a stated shortfall, the cancellation curve as dated steps with the amount owed from each date, the deposit, the insurance requirement, hosted-space restrictions read as terms; excerpts from pasted offer text, cross-checked against the table.
- Every negotiation tactic tagged general vendor technique or venue-specific; the hand-off of cancellation dates and percentages and the insurance requirement; a verdict (ready to sign, ready to request quotes, fix first, no venue fits the programme); exports: the requirements sheet (.md), the options grid and the cancellation curves (.csv), everything (.json).

## The metered lanes
Two tasks on gpt-terra, metered per run, routed by `task`. Input string fields: `task` (shortlist or brief), `event`, `options`, `contracts` (may be empty) and `facts`.
- `shortlist` replies with `summary`, `disclaimer`, `verdict`, `programme`, `options`, `ladder`, `visits`, `traps`, `posture`, `handoff` and `caveats`; the page holds the verdict, programme lines, statuses, picks, tactic tags, trap amounts and hand-off to its own.
- `brief` replies with `sheet` (title, about, programme, windows, must-haves, quote format, questions, reply-by, contact), `asks` (per surviving venue, each tagged general or venue), `disclaimer` and `note`; it is offered only when a venue survives.

## Links
- API tutorial: https://venue-shortlist.skillsafe.ai/api.html
- Source skill: https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@samber/event-venue-sourcing