Visual Hive

The answer to your hardest challenge is already in your systems.

We've done it inside a tradeshow portfolio, a publishing company, a sewage network and a car rental fleet. Different industries, same problem underneath.

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The work

What we are building.

Events and exhibitions

Erleah

The intelligence layer for B2B tradeshows. Turns what an event already holds into connections worth having and revenue it was not earning.

ShippedCommercial

EventHive

Open source tools for people who run events. MIT licence, no account, and most of it never leaves the browser.

ShippedOpen source

NAFTS Group

Research and publishing first, an actual tradeshow second, both run on the same AI. Not a show with a database, a data company that happens to run a show.

In progressCommercial

Regulation and government

Water Sewage UK

Parliamentary, regulatory and water company records held in one place, so what is said in public can be set against what the company itself filed.

EarlyPublic, unpaid

Transport and logistics

Molino

Car rental on the Murcian coast, where a vehicle is described at once by a booking system, a telematics box and a photograph taken in a car park.

In progressCommercial

A trade show, a sewage outfall and a hire car have nothing in common.

The same engine sits under all five. Each one taught it something the next one needed. So the fifth did not start from nothing. Neither will yours.

In production

Erleah

Events and exhibitions

ShippedCommercial

Erleah is the intelligence layer for B2B tradeshows. It reads what an event's own systems already hold, learns what attendees, exhibitors and sponsors actually want, and turns that into real connections and new revenue.

That evidence sits in five places: registration, badge scanning, the app, the session system and finance. None of the five agree on who anyone is. Erleah settles that first.

65,075

Clicks on personalised recommendations

ICE Barcelona, a Clarion Events show

11%+

Click rate across that campaign

Same show, same period

6,000+

Personalised conversations held

Rose City Comic Con

9 in 10

Would recommend it to a colleague

Post-show survey, ICE Barcelona

What it taught the engine. That one company will be spelled five ways by five suppliers, and that the record containing no name at all is often the one that settles the argument.

EventHive

Events and exhibitions

ShippedOpen source

Tools that people who run events normally pay for. Budget calculators, timelines, run sheets, seating plans. Most of it never leaves the browser. The licence is MIT, so anyone can take the code and host it themselves. It is also how we meet people, which is how we afford to keep it going.

Tools, free to use or embed

Live now at eventhive.io

MIT

Licence on all of it

Fork it and run it yourself if you want

Accounts required to use it

Not even an email address

£0

What it costs, including the code

We earn from Erleah, not from this

What it taught the engine. That the same half dozen suppliers appear in nearly every organiser's setup under a different name each time. That is where the matching work begins.

How we report numbers

Where two of our own figures disagree, neither one goes on this page.

Every number above names the event it came from, on the line beneath it. We hold two email open rates, from two different shows, that do not yet agree with each other. Neither one is on this page until they do.

Why it is needed

Somewhere in your business, one person is rebuilding a number by hand.

They are doing it in a spreadsheet. The exports come out of four systems, each holding a piece of the answer and none of them holding all of it. It takes a fortnight and it is accurate for about a week.

Nobody thinks this is sensible. It survives because the alternative has always been a two year programme with a consultancy attached, and the number is due on Thursday.

So the decision gets taken without it. On instinct, on last year, on whoever remembers the loudest. Because waiting a fortnight is not an option either.

It keeps itself current

The picture rebuilds as the systems beneath it change. Nobody stays late on a Friday to refresh it.

One name per customer, asset or person

Whatever a record is called in each system, it is still one customer, one asset, one person. You stop counting it twice.

Every number shows its working

You can see what a number was built from, who or what decided it, and when. Change something underneath and the number updates itself.

The data stays yours

It sits on your systems in formats you can read without us. What you are renting is the engine, not the records.

You can see how sure it is

Every match carries a strength in words. Strong, moderate, thin. Not a percentage you have no way to check.

It doesn't guess

If the answer is not in the data, you get nothing back. Not a made-up answer. Nothing.

Principles

Nothing gets ripped out.

We add a layer over the systems you already run. Where your own infrastructure can carry it, we use yours. Where it cannot, we build that part and hand it over.

What we build belongs to you as well. Not only the data, but the decisions made on it and the record of why each one was made.

We cannot repair data that was never collected. If a monitor was switched off, whatever happened while it was off is gone for good.

And if a spreadsheet and an afternoon would settle it, we will say so, and tell you how.

How we work

Four steps.

Most of the risk in this kind of work sits in the first fortnight. So we put the proof there, before you have committed to anything.

We agree what you need to get right

One to three things. Who is asking for it, and what happens if the answer is wrong.

We come back with a route

What we would build, what we need from you, and what it costs.

We build it on your own data

Your systems, your mess, your numbers. Not a demo environment with the difficult records removed.

Then we write a contract

If step three did not convince you, we stop there. No contract, nothing owed. If you decide to go ahead, step three turns out to have been free.

Start here

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Answer a few questions about it. A person turns that into a three page plan and sends it back within three days.

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