Frequently asked questions

Conpass is an event radar for founders. You set a home base anywhere in the world and describe your goals in plain words. Conpass watches the places events get announced around you, ranks each one by how well it fits your goals and what it would really cost you, and alerts you before tickets, early-bird prices and deadlines run out.

Founders who need the right people in the right room: customers, partners, investors and peers. It is designed especially for non-technical founders who build with AI tools and do not have time to refresh a dozen event pages, group chats and newsletters every week.

No. You pick a city, describe what you are looking for in everyday language, and set a budget. Conpass handles the crawling, matching and deadline tracking. Technical founders can also use the calendar feed, Telegram alerts and the API.

Conpass can be set up for any home base. It uses the local time zone, currency and weekend, and reads dates and numbers in the languages its locale packs cover. How many local sources it watches varies by city: Bangladesh is the deepest region today; the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Singapore, India, the UAE and the United States are seeded; and early-access members can suggest sources for their own cities.

Those are places where events are published. Conpass watches them and many other announcement surfaces on your behalf, merges the same event seen in five places into one, judges whether it is worth your time and money, and keeps a clock on its ticket and deadline dates.

Every event gets five scores: relevance to your goals, the quality of the audience likely in the room, feasibility given your calendar and travel, true cost, and urgency. Conpass combines them into one ranking and always explains it in a single sentence, for example: high relevance to your payments goal, senior speakers, Friday in town, tickets close in five days.

True cost is the ticket price plus travel, lodging, meals and the workdays you give up, valued at what a day of your time is worth to you. It is why a free seminar four hours away on a Wednesday can cost more than a paid conference across town on your weekend.

When an announcement says tickets go live at a certain time, Conpass records that as a deadline and watches the ticket page closely around it. If the page changes, the alert is designed to reach you within minutes. Conpass sends at most three alerts a day; ticket releases and ticket pages you watch are exempt from that cap.

Yes, as a fallback. Conpass reads structured event data, its own rules, QR codes and text in images first, because they are exact and free. When none of those can read an event, a small AI model extracts the details from the relevant text only, every field it returns is checked against the page, and daily and monthly spending caps switch AI reading off when reached. Matching events to the goals you write in plain words runs on our own servers, not through an AI provider.

A daily digest by email at a time you choose, alerts on Telegram for things that cannot wait (push alerts in the Android app are planned), and a calendar feed with your committed events and their deadlines for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.

Anything with event details on it: a LinkedIn or Facebook post, part of any web page, a poster image, a screenshot crop of something drawn on screen, or a QR code. Conpass reads the text, recognises text in images, decodes QR codes, reads public links for missing details (except on sites whose terms forbid it), merges it with events it already knows, and starts the clock. If something is uncertain, a small card asks you to confirm.

Yes, within the rules of each platform. Conpass reads public posts through open APIs where the platform allows it: Bluesky organisation accounts you choose, and Mastodon posts whose authors opted into search. It also runs a few search-engine queries a day for event posts on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X. Our servers never open those pages; each one becomes a lead in your inbox that you open and capture with the extension in one click.

Never. Conpass does not ask for social-media passwords and never runs a logged-in session on a server. When you see an event on a social network or in a group chat, you send it yourself: select it with the browser extension, forward an email or send the link to the Telegram bot. The extension acts only when you do, and your cookies never leave your browser.

Only public business contact details of organisers and speaker names that appear in a public agenda. Conpass never collects attendee lists, never scrapes individual profiles and never builds a profile of a private person.

Publish your event on a public page, ideally with schema.org Event data, and Conpass can find it. To opt out, block ConpassBot in your robots.txt or email us and we remove your site and its events. ConpassBot always identifies itself and respects robots.txt.

Conpass is free during early access. Pricing will be published before general availability, and nobody is charged without choosing a paid plan first.

Conpass is a Verne product, designed and built by Verne Ltd. It started as an internal tool after its makers missed ticket drops and meetups they wanted to attend.