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AICONNECT · Attendee networking
6 days ago

Sherlock Goes Off-App: Embed Your AI Agent on Any Website 🕵️

Your event app was never the only place people look for answers: some guests never install it, some just want a quick check before they commit to downloading anything. Until now, Sherlock couldn't follow them there. That gap closes today: enable guest mode, grab an embed snippet from Studio, and Sherlock shows up wherever you already have a website.

What's New

  • One toggle, one snippet: turn on Guest mode for Sherlock in Studio and an embed code section appears, giving you a copyable snippet scoped to your event.
  • Guest-scoped answers: Sherlock only draws on content you've explicitly marked "available for guests" in Studio. Nothing else leaks through.
  • White-label aware: "Powered by Swapcard" shows on standard events and disappears automatically if your event is white-labeled.
  • Fresh start, every time: no conversation history carries over between visits, so every session starts clean.

How It Works

  1. Open the AI Agent page in Studio with Sherlock enabled.
  2. Turn on Guest mode: the embed code section unlocks.
  3. Copy the snippet; it's already scoped to your event.
  4. Paste it into your website.
  5. Mark the content you want Sherlock to use as available for guests in Studio, so it has something to answer with.


Key Behaviors & Options

  • Scoped content only: even with the widget live, Sherlock will only ever surface guest-accessible content; anything not marked for guests stays out of the conversation entirely.
  • Feedback built in: the same suggestions, app-support answers, chat, and thumbs up / thumbs down controls guests get in the app carry over to the embedded widget.
  • No content marked yet? No problem, sort of: the embed still generates and works technically, but Sherlock won't have anything to answer with until you flag content as guest-available.

Why Organizers Will Love It

Your website is real estate you already own and control, and now it can answer attendee questions before they've even considered the app. It's a lower-friction first touchpoint for prospects browsing pre-event, and a safety net for onsite guests who'd rather not install anything. Same AI agent, same guardrails on what it can share, just meeting people where they already are.

💡 Pro tip: Mark your guest-accessible content in Studio before you flip on Guest mode, an embedded Sherlock with nothing to say is a rough first impression.

💡 Pro tip: This is a great addition to a pre-event landing page, let prospects get quick answers about the event without the "download our app first" wall.

CONNECT · Attendee networking MANAGE · Event management & promotion
2 weeks ago

One Row, Every Meeting: Your Export Just Leveled Up 📊

Chasing down who was meeting whom used to mean cross-referencing two tabs and matching internal IDs by hand. Not anymore. The Meetings tab of your meeting export now packs everything onto a single row per meeting, participant details included, so you can follow up onsite without the spreadsheet gymnastics.

What's new

The Meetings tab (Studio > Meeting export > Meetings) is reorganized so every meeting is fully readable in one row:

  1. Core meeting info comes first: status, dates, location, source, in a fixed column order.
  2. A new Meeting Description column, so you can read the meeting subject without opening the Studio.
  3. Two full participant blocks, Participant 1 and Participant 2, each with 13 fields: contact info, status, feedback, groups, job title, company, and exhibitor details.
  4. An Additional participants column for group meetings, bundling every participant from the third onward into one cell.

Key behaviors & options

  • Participant 1 is always the requester (or the earliest-added participant, if no one's flagged as requester), so you always know who started the conversation. 
  • Participant 2 is the next person added, built for reading 1:1 meetings, which make up 95% of meetings on Swapcard, at a glance.
  • Full contact + context per participant: email, name, status, feedback, job title, company, exhibitor name and booth, plus internal/external IDs, no more jumping to the Participants tab.
  • Group meetings still fit on one row: from the 3rd participant onward, details land in a single "Additional participants" cell, separated by semicolons.
  • The Meetings Participants tab is untouched: same columns, same data, if your workflows already rely on it.

Why organizers will love it

No more manual matching between tabs. Whether you're chasing exhibitor ROI, prepping onsite follow-ups, or auditing who met whom, it's all on one line: sortable, filterable, ready to drop straight into your CRM or follow-up sequence.

💡 Pro tip: Filter by Participant 1 - Requester to instantly surface who initiated each meeting, handy for prioritizing your onsite follow-up list.


CONNECT · Attendee networking
a month ago

A Cleaner, Smarter Meeting Details Page 📋

The meeting details page is where a lot happens: requests get accepted, schedules get juggled, teams get assigned, and attendance gets tracked. For a page this central to the networking experience, it was long overdue for a proper rethink.

The revamped meeting details page in the Event App now shows the right actions to the right people at the right time - dynamically adapting based on who you are in the meeting (requester, invitee, team member) and where that meeting is in its lifecycle.

How It Works

The page now has a clear, consistent layout split into two components: the meeting details card (participants, time, location, message) and a contextual options panel that updates based on meeting state. Here's what each role sees:

As an invitee receiving a meeting request:

  • Accept or Decline the request
  • Reschedule directly from the details page
  • Connect Google Calendar to stay in sync

As the requester waiting on a response:

  • Reschedule or Cancel the request
  • Add participants or video conferencing
  • Export to calendar without leaving the page

As a team member handling exhibitor meetings:

  • Assign the meeting to a colleague (or reassign it)
  • Full action set available for both unassigned and assigned states

Once a meeting is in the past:

  • Requesters are prompted to confirm attendance — with three honest options: "I joined, and it was valuable," "I joined, but it wasn't valuable," or "It didn't happen"
  • Once confirmed, the feedback is locked in and the page reflects it cleanly

Key Behaviors

  • Context-driven actions: The options panel only surfaces actions that are relevant to your role and the current meeting status. No clutter, no confusion.
  • Google Calendar sync: Available across virtually every meeting state, so attendees can always connect their calendar regardless of where the meeting stands.
  • Canceled, rescheduled, and expired: The page still renders cleanly for these states, offering calendar options without surfacing irrelevant actions.
  • Multi-participant meetings: Invitees in group meetings can reschedule, add participants, export to calendar, or decline - and if they've declined, the page reflects that clearly.

Why This Matters

This revamp makes the meeting details page feel intelligent. It reduces friction at every stage of the meeting lifecycle, from the first request to the post-meeting attendance confirmation. For exhibitors managing high volumes of meetings across a team, the clearer assignment flow alone is a meaningful upgrade.

It's also built to scale - the new architecture makes it far easier to extend the page as the meetings feature evolves.

💡 Pro tip: Encourage exhibitors to use the post-meeting attendance confirmation as part of their follow-up workflow. The "valuable / not valuable / didn't happen" signals feed directly into ROI tracking and can help teams refine their meeting strategies across events.

CONNECT · Attendee networking
a month ago

One Button to Rule the Room: Meet Is Now Front and Center on Every Profile 🤝

Networking at events lives or dies by how easy it is to make the first move. If requesting a meeting takes too many taps, too much scrolling, or too much guesswork, attendees simply won't bother.

The meeting booking experience on attendee and exhibitor profiles has been fully redesigned. The Meet button is now the primary action on every profile: highlighted, prominent, and impossible to miss, if meetings are set up in the event. Time-slot selection has been moved out of the profile view entirely, keeping the page clean and focused on connection.


What's Changed

On Exhibitor Profiles

The exhibitor details page now leads with a clear action pair: a bold, highlighted Meet button alongside a Bookmark button. Time slots no longer clutter the header: visitors see the exhibitor story first, then take action.

Meet button highlighted: shown prominently when meetings are authorized for that exhibitor

  • Bookmark: always available, sits cleanly alongside Meet
  • Meet grayed out: when a meeting request has already been sent
  • Meet hidden: once the attendee has reached their meeting request limit (5), only Bookmark remains

On Attendee/Person Profiles

The person's details page follows the same logic, with Meet taking priority over Connect.

Meet highlighted, Connect secondary: when meetings are authorized between the two participants

  • Meet highlighted only: when already connected with that person
  • Meet grayed out: after a meeting request has been sent (up to 5 times)
  • Meet hidden: once the 5-request limit is reached
  • Pending states: incoming meeting and connection requests surface directly on the profile with inline Accept/Decline buttons, replacing the old invitation and pending indicators


How It Works

  1. Open any attendee or exhibitor profile in the event app
  2. Tap the Meet button, it launches the meeting booking flow directly
  3. Select participants, choose a time slot, and send the request
  4. The button state updates automatically to reflect the pending or confirmed status


Why Organizers Will Love It 💚

More visible meeting CTAs mean more meetings booked. It really is that simple. When participants see a clear, highlighted action the moment they land on a profile, they engage, which translates directly into more networking activity, more exhibitor interactions, and stronger event ROI.

Cleaning up the profile view also means attendees spend less time confused and more time connecting. The removal of time slots from the header reduces cognitive load at the exact moment participants are deciding whether to reach out.


💡 Pro tip: This update works alongside your existing meeting authorization settings in Studio. If meetings aren't enabled for a specific group or exhibitor, the Meet button won't appear, so your per-event networking configuration stays fully in control.

💡 Pro tip: The 5-meeting request limit per person is a built-in guardrail that keeps networking quality high. Participants who've maxed out on requests to a specific attendee will see only the Connect option, encouraging them to broaden their networking rather than spam a single contact.

Coming Soon!AICONNECT · Attendee networking
a month ago

Sherlock Suggests: Three Smart Questions to Get Every Conversation Started 🕵️

The biggest bottleneck to Sherlock adoption was never the AI, it was the blank box. Attendees and exhibitors open the chat, don't know what to ask, and give up before they even start. Smart Predefined Questions closes that gap: the moment someone opens Sherlock, three suggested questions are already waiting, tailored to that exact person and event.

How it works

  1. Sherlock's recommender engine pulls from five signals: the user's profile data, their past Sherlock interactions, the event's trend questions, the event timeline, and a set of hard-coded questions.
  2. It ranks and narrows those down to the three most relevant questions for that specific attendee or exhibitor, and surfaces them the moment they open Sherlock.
  3. Tap a suggestion, and it's sent straight to Sherlock as a message, kicking off a normal Sherlock reply, plan mode included, when the question calls for it.

Key behaviors

  • Personalized when there's data: Returning users get questions ranked against their profile, their Sherlock history, trend questions, and the event timeline.
  • Cold start, covered: New users with no profile data or interaction history still get three relevant questions, pulled from trend questions and a hard-coded set.
  • No awkward gaps: Fewer than three good candidates? Sherlock shows whatever's available, no empty placeholders, no error states.
  • Fallback built in: If the recommender comes up empty, or has an off moment, the hard-coded questions step in by default.
  • No repeats: Once a question's been suggested and answered, or it's one Sherlock can't answer, it drops from that person's pool for the rest of the event.
  • Always current: Close and reopen Sherlock, and the three questions recompute against the latest data available.

Why organizers will love it

Adoption for an AI agent lives or dies on that first message. Smart Predefined Questions turns Sherlock from "type something and hope" into a guided nudge, personalized per attendee, per exhibitor, per moment in the event. More people start a conversation, more of those conversations are relevant from message one, and matchmaking, session discovery, and exhibitor Q&A all get a running start instead of a cold open.


Coming Soon!AICONNECT · Attendee networking
a month ago

Sherlock Shows Its Work: Plans to Approve, Questions to Answer 🕵️

Sherlock has always been able to answer on the fly. But "find our best leads and send them meeting requests" isn't a one-shot question, it's a project. Sending Sherlock off to handle multi-step or ambiguous requests without a check-in point meant crossing your fingers and hoping the AI understood the assignment. Not anymore.

Two updates land together to fix that: Plan mode, so you see Sherlock's approach before it moves, and multiple-choice questions, so Sherlock can ask for missing context instead of assuming it.

Plan Mode: See the Steps Before Sherlock Takes Them

When an organizer asks Sherlock something that needs deeper reasoning, or that involves Sherlock actually doing something on your behalf, Sherlock now stops to lay out its plan first.

How it works

  1. You ask Sherlock a complex request (multi-step, action-oriented, or open to interpretation).
  2. Sherlock detects it needs a plan and replies with a numbered breakdown of what it intends to do, formatted as a normal chat message.
  3. You react to the plan:
    • Agree, and Sherlock proceeds to execute it.
    • Discuss changes, and Sherlock updates the plan and re-displays it for your confirmation.
    • Disagree, and Sherlock stands down. No action taken.

Key behaviors

  • Nothing happens without your sign-off. Sherlock only starts executing after explicit agreement, no silent actions on your event.
  • Plans are editable, not just approve/reject. Talk to Sherlock like you would a teammate: tell it what to change and it revises the plan in place.
  • Same message format you already know. Plans show up as a regular Sherlock message in the thread, no new UI to learn.

Multiple-Choice Questions: Answer in a Tap, Not a Paragraph

The second piece: when Sherlock doesn't have enough context to give a solid answer, it now asks, with suggested answers you tap instead of typing out.

Key behaviors

  • Single-select moves fast. Tap one answer and the flow jumps straight to the next question, or submits everything back to Sherlock if it's the last one.
  • Multi-select waits for you. Tap as many answers as apply, then hit Submit to advance. The button stays disabled until at least one is selected.
  • "Something else" always has a place. Every question includes a free-text fallback for the answer that isn't on the list.
  • Ignore it and Sherlock adapts. Send a new message instead of answering, and Sherlock drops the question flow and answers your original request as-is, no dead-end conversations.
  • Works everywhere Sherlock does. Same experience on the event mobile app and the web app.

Once every question is answered, Sherlock goes back into thinking mode and returns one refined answer that accounts for every response, instead of a generic best guess.

Built to Work Together

Plan mode and multiple-choice questions are designed to pair up. Ask Sherlock to identify and reach out to your best leads, and it might propose a plan (review the list, draft messages, send requests) and then tap you for the missing piece, like which seniority levels to prioritize, before it drafts a single message.

Why Organizers Will Love It

Exhibitor ROI and lead retrieval workflows live and die on trust: if you can't see what an AI agent is about to do, you don't hand it real work. Plan mode turns Sherlock from a black box into a collaborator you can steer mid-task. And multiple-choice questions mean neither your organizers nor your attendees have to write an essay just to get matchmaking, session, or networking recommendations that actually fit.

💡 Pro tip: Use plan mode for anything Sherlock will act on (sending messages, updating records), and let the clarifying questions do the work on anything ambiguous. Together they cut down on the "that's not what I meant" follow-up messages.

Coming Soon!AICONNECT · Attendee networking MANAGE · Event management & promotion
2 months ago

Meet Sherlock in the Inbox: Two Email Blocks That Do the Promoting For You 🕵️

Sherlock is only as useful as the number of people who know to ask it something. Now the email manager can do that job for you: two ready-made blocks nudge attendees, exhibitors, and speakers straight to Sherlock, on WhatsApp or in the app, with zero copywriting on your end.

What's new

Two pre-built blocks are now available in the email manager:

  1. Sherlock on WhatsApp: drops a subject, body, and "Chat with Sherlock" CTA straight into any email.
  2. Sherlock in-app: same idea, but the CTA ("Discover Sherlock") opens the event in the app with Sherlock already launched.

Both blocks come fully written. All you add is the link.

How it works

  1. Open any email in the email manager and browse the block library.
  2. Add either the Sherlock on WhatsApp or Sherlock in-app block (or both).
  3. Drop in the required link: your WhatsApp conversation link for the WhatsApp block, or the event deep link for the in-app block.
  4. Send. Clicking the CTA takes attendees directly to the WhatsApp chat or into the app with Sherlock open.

💡 Pro tip: Leave the link field empty and Swapcard won't let you save or send, an inline error flags it immediately so a broken CTA never reaches an inbox.

Key behaviors

  • Pre-written, pre-translated copy: Subject, body, and CTA are ready to go, no drafting needed.
  • One required field per block: Just the WhatsApp link or the deep link, nothing else to configure.
  • Validation built in: Missing link = blocked send, with an inline error on the block itself.
  • Smart defaults:If Sherlock (or Sherlock on WhatsApp) is enabled for your event, the block is automatically added to key campaigns:
    • "It's almost go-time! Are you ready?" (attendees)
    • "Qualified prospects are waiting to meet you!" (exhibitors)
    • "Want to see who's attending your session?" (speakers)

Why organizers will love it

Awareness is the bottleneck for any AI agent, and now it's solved before you even open the email builder. These blocks turn every campaign into a Sherlock touchpoint automatically, no extra effort, no extra emails to design. More attendees discover Sherlock, more conversations happen, and your AI Agent actually earns its keep.

Coming Soon!AICONNECT · Attendee networking
2 months ago

Sherlock on WhatsApp: Support, Under Your Brand 💬

Attendees live on WhatsApp. Now Sherlock can meet them there, without your organization's name disappearing behind Swapcard's. If you run branded apps, you can request a dedicated WhatsApp number, connect it through Meta, and put Sherlock to work answering attendee questions right where they already are.

How it works

  1. Request a number. From WhatsApp sender settings, organization admins submit a request form with the phone number's country and legal entity. Customer Success reviews it and assigns a number once approved.
  2. Connect via Meta. Click "Add WhatsApp account," then "Connect with Meta" to launch Meta's embedded signup. Enter your number, grab the verification code Swapcard displays, and drop it into the Meta popup to confirm.
  3. Bind it to your app(s). Pick which branded application(s) this WhatsApp account should serve: attendees on that app will see Sherlock respond from your number.
  4. Manage it anytime. Every linked application shows its phone number alongside Copy URL, Copy phone number, and Download QR code actions, plus an Edit option to change bindings on the fly.

Key behaviors

  • One number, multiple apps: a single WhatsApp account can serve several branded applications at once.
  • Built-in guardrails: no branded app yet? The request button greys out with a banner pointing you to create one first. Try to save with zero apps selected, and you'll get a clear validation message instead of a silent fail.
  • QR codes on demand: download a ready-to-share QR code for each linked app, perfect for on-site signage or booth collateral.
  • Clean teardown: deleting a WhatsApp account removes it and all its app bindings in one confirmed action.

Why organizers will love it

Branding isn't just a logo, it's every touchpoint attendees have with your event, WhatsApp included. This closes the gap between "attendees want to message us where they already are" and "our support has to live inside one app." Now it doesn't.

💡 Pro tip: Have the Meta Business account details and your legal entity info ready before you start the request, it's the single biggest thing that slows approval down.


Coming Soon!AICONNECT · Attendee networking
2 months ago

Sherlock: Your Personal Wayfinder, Right Inside the Chat 🧭

No more bouncing between the chat and the full-page map. Sherlock now shows exhibitors, sessions, and venue facilities exactly where they are, and gets attendees there, without ever closing the conversation.

What's new

Ask Sherlock for a location, and it answers with an actual map, not just text:

  • "Show me the event map" → Sherlock drops an embedded ExpoFP map preview right into the chat, level selector included.
  • "Where's the AWS booth?" → the preview opens zoomed in and pinned on that exact spot.
  • "Where are the Chinese exhibitors?" or "What's in Hall 5?" → the relevant hall or zone lights up, with the matching exhibitor list alongside it.
  • "How do I get from Hall 3 to Hall 4?" → Sherlock asks where you're starting from, then draws the route straight to your destination.

Key behaviors

  • Pinch, zoom, pan: the embedded map behaves like the real thing, without hijacking the conversation's scroll.
  • Closest match first: ask about several exhibitors or sessions at once, and Sherlock pins the closest one to you first (or the first one found, if it doesn't know where you are).
  • No dead ends: if a location or route doesn't exist on the map, Sherlock says so instead of showing a blank or broken screen.
  • Smart reuse: once the map has loaded in a session, Sherlock reuses that instance instead of reinitializing it every time.
  • Open map button: every map reply comes with a one-tap way out: on web it opens full-page alongside Sherlock; on mobile, Sherlock steps aside and the map goes full screen.

Why organizers will love it

Fewer "where is..." messages bouncing between attendees and your help desk, and a much smoother onsite experience overall. Attendees get answers without breaking their flow, exhibitors get found faster, and your floor plan finally works as hard as your AI assistant does.

💡 Pro tip: This release covers single-destination directions. Multi-stop itineraries (visit A, then B, then C) and full route optimization across a wishlist aren't in scope yet, but the groundwork's there for it.


Coming Soon!CONNECT · Attendee networking
2 months ago

Change the Room, Not the Meeting: Edit Locations in a Tap 📍

Plans change on-site all the time: a room gets double-booked, a booth gets reshuffled, someone realizes the meeting really should happen near catering. Until now, fixing that meant canceling the whole meeting and starting over, which reset every participant's RSVP and forced everyone to re-confirm from scratch. Not anymore: organizers and attendees can now edit a meeting's location directly from the Event App, on web and mobile, without touching anyone's status.


How It Works

  1. Open the details page of any pending or confirmed meeting.
  2. Tap Edit location.
  3. Pick a new spot from everything available for that time slot, locations and exhibitor booths included, filtered by your meeting rules and permissions.
  4. If you're changing to a new location, you'll land on the description step with the existing text already carried over.
  5. Save. The meeting page reloads instantly with the updated location.

Key Behaviors & Options

  • Statuses stay untouched: confirmed stays confirmed, pending stays pending. Editing a location no longer resets anyone's acceptance.
  • Smart filtering: only locations actually free for that time slot and covered by your active meeting rules show up in the picker: no dead ends, no double-booking someone else's slot.
  • Automatic notifications: every participant gets a "meeting updated" alert with the old location struck through and the new one front and center, so nobody shows up in the wrong place.
  • Built-in guardrails: Save stays greyed out until you actually pick a different location, and if the meeting gets canceled or slips into the past while the page is open, the Edit location button quietly disappears.

Why Organizers (and Attendees) Will Love It

Canceling and rebooking a meeting over a simple room change used to torch attendance confirmations and generate a steady trickle of "why do I have to accept this again?" tickets. Now a location change is just... a location change. Everyone's calendar reflects reality, nobody loses their RSVP, and support stops fielding tickets that were never really about scheduling in the first place.

💡 Pro tip: Review your meeting rules before the event starts. Locations only appear in the picker when they're covered by an active request rule, so tightening those up front means smoother edits once things get busy on-site.

💡 Pro tip: If a location edit shows an error, it means nothing's available for that time slot under the current rules, try a different slot or loosen the rule's location scope rather than canceling the meeting outright.