Approach

Six phases of event design. With an AI overlay on each.

Each phase has its own outputs and decision points, with AI lifting the repeat work so judgement and craft get more time. Pick up wherever the work starts. Stop wherever it makes sense.

The six phases

Brief, Strategy, Programme, Partnerships, Delivery, Insight.

Different engagements start at different phases. A founder pre-decision starts at Brief. An organiser with a fixed event and a content gap starts at Programme. The operating layer is the same across all of them.

01

Brief

What the work is. What success looks like. What it is not. The Brief phase locks the scope, the constraints, and the definition of done before any design work starts.

AI overlay

Structured intake notes from the first conversations. Prior-art research on the organisation's portfolio and adjacent events. A draft brief synthesis ready for human edit and sign-off.

02

Strategy

Audience definition, theme development, format selection, commercial model. The "should this event exist in this form" question gets answered here.

AI overlay

Format benchmarking against comparable events. Audience research and segmentation at scale. Scenario modelling for format and commercial choices.

03

Programme

Speaker programming, agenda architecture, editorial direction, partner content integration. Where the event becomes a thing audiences want to attend.

AI overlay

Speaker discovery and prioritisation at scale. First-draft speaker briefs. Agenda gap analysis across topic, sector and seniority. Session abstract editing.

04

Partnerships

Partner programme design, inventory strategy, commercial format pricing, outreach. Where the event becomes a thing partners want to invest in.

AI overlay

Prospect prioritisation across pipeline. Partnership narrative and pitch drafting. Tailored deck assembly per prospect. Follow-up tracking across the partner pipeline.

05

Delivery

Vendor management, run-of-show, on-site or remote operations, speaker prep, attendee experience. The actual event week and the weeks immediately around it.

AI overlay

Automated reminder cadences across speakers, partners and vendors. Status tracking across vendor pipelines. Document drafting for run-of-show, briefing packs and partner comms.

06

Insight

Post-event review, attribution analysis, partner reporting, internal learning capture. The phase most events skip. The one that compounds the most across portfolio.

AI overlay

Feedback synthesis across attendee, speaker and partner responses. Content extraction from session recordings. Partner ROI reporting at scale. Decision log update ready to inform the next cycle.

The operating layer

One workflow across all six phases.

The operating layer pulls the six phases together in a single structured workflow rather than a stack of disconnected tools. Three capabilities sit underneath every engagement.

Data architecture

A single source of truth for events, speakers, sessions, partners and outcomes. Every record visible across phases. No spreadsheet sprawl. No handover risk when the work moves from Brief to Strategy to Programme.

Automation

Reliable handoffs between phases without manual reconciliation. Reminder cadences, status updates, follow-up sequences and reporting all triggered from the underlying data rather than from someone remembering to send the email.

AI assistance

Research, drafting, synthesis and reporting accelerated by AI on every phase. First drafts produced fast. Editorial judgement applied by hand. The combination is faster than either alone and sharper than AI by itself.

The AI capability layer

Build the right AI tool for your event need.

Custom-built pilot AI offerings, designed in partnership with AIFlow as engaged technical delivery partner. Channelled through bespoke workshops that translate a specific bottleneck in your team's workflow into a scoped build. Advisory thinking sits inside every engagement; the focus here is on co-building the right product alongside the right partner.

How it works

  • Start with the bottleneck that costs your team the most time
  • Bespoke workshop scoped jointly between McMorrow Consulting and AIFlow
  • AIFlow builds the agentic tool; McMorrow Consulting embeds it into the event workflow
  • Scoped against a flagship event in the next 12 months

Engagement model: Co-funded build. Joint pricing and licensing terms scoped at the start of the conversation.

Best for: Organisations building a flagship event in the next 12 months whose team has a clear, costly workflow bottleneck that automation would unblock.

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