Describe your event in plain words and let the assistant assemble the run of show for you.
The Event Builder is a chat at /host/event-builder where you type a short brief about your event (a wedding, a corporate party, your weekly pub night) and the assistant helps you build a real event out of one or more activities: a trivia game, karaoke, a tournament, a slideshow, a ticker, a poll, or a Sports Pick'em slate.
The chat is durable. Every change is saved as you go, so you can close the tab, switch devices, and pick the same session back up later. When you are happy with the plan, you finalize it and the builder creates the actual event and its first scheduled date for you.
You can open it from the left nav, the Build an Event card on the host dashboard, the Build an Event button on the Events page, or the Event Builder button on a karaoke dashboard (which starts a chat already seeded with that session's details).
A preset seeds the chat with a starter run of show and a few tuned questions to answer. There are seven: Wedding Reception (slideshow, trivia, karaoke, ticker), Corporate Party (slideshow, trivia, poll), Birthday Bash (slideshow, trivia, karaoke), Weekly Pub Trivia Night (trivia, ticker), Bar Trivia Night (slideshow, trivia, ticker), Paper Trivia Night for phone-free rooms (trivia, ticker), and Pub Karaoke Night (karaoke plus ticker, pre-loaded with crowd-pleaser song suggestions). Pick the closest one, then adjust.
You can also start blank and describe the event yourself. Either way, the first thing to do is drop your intel: the venue, the crowd, the vibe, any in-jokes or must-play songs, and anything you want the questions to reference.
The builder reads your brief for signals and turns them into tasks and activities, so specific words do real work. A pub example: 'Weekly trivia at Tony's Pub, Thursdays at 7. About 40 regulars, mostly 30 to 50, competitive but friendly. We have photos from last season. The owner says "the best night we ever ran was 80s theme". Crowd loves classic rock and country.'
From that one paragraph: the photo mention adds upload-photos and build-slideshow tasks to your to-do list, the quoted sentence becomes a quote slide when you build the slideshow, the genre words steer karaoke setlist suggestions, and the crowd details flavor the clarifying questions and any trivia you generate.
A game-day example: 'Sunday game day Pick'em at the bar, NFL slate, wings special all day.' The Pick'em language seeds a Sports Pick'em activity and a task to attach a slate, and the wings special is exactly the kind of line that belongs in your ticker messages.
A wedding example: 'Reception for Sam and Riley, they met in Hawaii in 2018, about 80 guests, mix of ages.' The how-they-met detail is what the clarifying questions will dig into, and it is the raw material for trivia questions the couple's friends can actually answer.
Put memorable one-liners in straight quotes. Quoted phrases from your brief become slideshow quote slides.
Names, dates, running gags, and favorite songs all sharpen what gets generated. Vague briefs make generic events.
The back and forth after you submit intel costs no Brain Credits. You can chat as much as you want to shape the activities, the order, and the tone, and the to-do list, photo pickup, base slideshow build, and instant setlists are all free too.
Exactly two actions are billable: generating trivia questions, and the optional tailor pass that curates a karaoke setlist to your crowd. The builder checks your wallet before either call, so you are never charged for a request it cannot complete. If your wallet is empty you are shown the upgrade options before anything is generated, and every charge is narrated in the chat so you can see what you spent and on what.
The credit pill in the header is your live balance. It refreshes after every generation.
The right rail shows the run of show: every activity in play order. Seven activity types are available: game, karaoke, tournament, slideshow, ticker, poll, and sports. You can add and remove activities at any point before finalizing, rename them, and adjust their settings; removing one renumbers the rest so the order stays clean.
An activity's type is fixed once added. If you staged a poll and want a tournament instead, remove the poll and add a tournament.
Photos upload in a separate media tab: the to-do list's upload task opens the media library pre-tagged for your session. When you switch back to the chat, the builder notices the new photos on its own, adds them to the session, ticks the task, and shows them in the Photos strip.
Build slideshow then creates a real slideshow from what you have: one slide per photo plus one quote slide per quoted phrase in your brief. It works with photos only, quotes only, or both. The result is a normal slideshow you can fine-tune in the slideshow editor before the night.
A karaoke activity can carry a suggested setlist. The instant setlist builder is free: pick genres, a size, and any banned songs, and it fills the list with singable crowd-pleasers, keeping songs you already staged. If you skip genres it uses the ones your brief and answers mention.
The tailor pass is the optional paid step: the assistant curates and reorders the list against everything it knows about your crowd, swapping weaker picks for tighter fits.
The setlist is not lost at showtime. When the finalized event launches its karaoke activity, the new karaoke session carries the setlist, your chosen name, and the staged session settings, and the KJ dashboard shows the songs in a Suggested setlist panel under the queue.
Mention Pick'em or game day in your brief and the builder stages a sports activity with a task to attach a slate. Attach one by picking from your recent Sports Pick'em sessions; the finalized event then launches straight into that slate from the cockpit.
Build the slate itself in the Sports Pick'em module the way you normally would. The builder links slates; it does not create picks for you.
The builder keeps a running to-do list for the event and ticks items off as you complete them: submit intel, upload photos, build the slideshow, generate questions, seed a setlist, attach a slate, set the schedule, finalize. It adapts to your event, so a quick trivia night shows a short list while a full wedding shows the works. You can tick or untick items yourself, and your manual ticks stick.
The Project page at /host/event-builder/{id}/project is the check-in view. It summarizes everything in one place so you can eyeball progress between working sessions, tick items, and jump back into the chat or open the finished event.
Set the date, start time, and duration; the schedule task ticks itself once date and time are in. Finalize needs at least one activity and a schedule, and it turns the plan into a scheduled event with its first date on your calendar.
Finalize also makes each activity genuinely launchable from the event cockpit. Generated questions are saved to your question library and wired into the trivia game. Ticker messages become a real ticker set (a ticker with no messages is dropped rather than left unlaunchable). A tournament gets a launch-ready bracket configuration. A karaoke activity carries its name, settings, and setlist into the session it creates. A linked sports activity opens its slate.
From there it behaves like any event you built by hand: players can RSVP, and on the night you run each activity from the event cockpit.
The picker screen lists your recent sessions with their status and credits spent. Resume any of them from any device; the chat opens exactly where you left off.
To discard a draft you no longer want, use the x control on its card in the picker. Abandoning is permanent and only applies to sessions you have not finalized; a finalized session stays as the record of the event it created.
Uploading photos happens in a separate media tab. When you switch back to the chat, the builder detects the new photos and adds them to your session on its own.
Rebuilding the slideshow replaces the previous one, so you can iterate on photos and quotes without piling up drafts.
The Event Builder button on a karaoke dashboard starts a new chat pre-seeded from that karaoke session, which is the fastest way to grow a bare karaoke night into a full event.