Plec

Booking a private event means calling around to five different venues, comparing scattered pricing, and negotiating with zero standard process, while hidden fees quietly inflate costs by 30 to 40%. On the vendor side it's worse: 62% of small business calls go unanswered, and 80% of bookings need five or more follow-ups that most providers never send. Planners lose hours chasing quotes. Vendors lose revenue they already earned, all because nobody replied in time.

PLEC is one marketplace to book venues, catering, DJs, and every other event vendor in a single checkout, with transparent pricing before you commit. Behind the scenes, an AI agent runs the vendor side: quotes, contracts, calendars, and deposits move automatically, so operators just confirm and go. A $10M/yr Austin operator has an exclusive deal pending to route bookings through PLEC. We're the only platform combining booking, vendor operations, and event planning in one system.

Celebration spend is rebounding hard post-pandemic, and college social groups now run six-figure annual budgets with zero software built for them. At the same time, AI finally makes it possible to automate the quoting, follow-up, and confirmation work vendors used to do by hand, the exact bottleneck that's been keeping this industry fragmented.

This isn't a listing site anyone can clone overnight. We're running three things at once: a two-sided marketplace, AI vendor operations that touch real contracts and money, and a campus distribution engine built on exclusive relationships (a $10M/yr Austin operator, a nationwide bus partnership). Copying one piece is easy. Copying the combination, plus the trust we've already built with operators, isn't.

All the above!