Hey everyone!! We're Anna and Amy, sisters, co-founders, and the people who used to manually call 20 hotels for a single offsite.

We launched Nowadays on YC S23 as an "AI copilot for event planning." Two years later, we want to show you what we actually built :)

TL;DR

Nowadays is the AI-native platform for corporate retreats and meetings. Tell us what you need: we handle venue sourcing, contract negotiation, room blocks, attendee logistics, and post-event reconciliation. Fortune 500 teams and fast-growing startups use Nowadays to run offsites they're proud of, without burning out their ops team.

The Problem

Planning a corporate offsite is a second job nobody signed up for.

Your EA or ops lead spends weeks cold-emailing hotels, chasing RFPs, deciphering hotel contracts, and manually tracking room blocks in spreadsheets, only to do it all over again next quarter.

The vendors in this space are slow and expensive. Many of our customers have said the same thing: "I got paired with a planner worse than myself."

The result: overpriced venues, cancellation penalties nobody caught, and an ops team that's exhausted before the event even starts. And for most enterprises, 65% of meeting spend is completely unmanaged, buried in expense reports, booked by admins outside any system.

Our Solution

Nowadays replaces the entire event planning stack with one AI-native platform, backed by a team that actually executes on your behalf. You tell us what you need. We handle the rest. Your team just shows up.

1. AI-powered venue sourcing

Describe your event, dates, headcount, vibe, budget, and we generate a curated shortlist of venues with proposals in 24 hours, not weeks. We have relationships with 400K+ hotels globally and we're a certified IATA travel agency.

2. Contract negotiation, handled

We negotiate directly with venues on your behalf, pushing on room rates, F&B minimums, attrition clauses, and cancellation terms. Our AI knows market rates from thousands of events and pushes back when hotels overcharge. Clients routinely save 20-30% vs. going direct.

3. Exclusive rates

We aggregate demand across all our clients to secure rates individual companies can't get on their own.

4. End-to-end logistics

Room blocks, cutoff dates, rooming lists, supplier coordination, tracked in one place, managed by us. Nothing falls through the cracks while you're onsite.

5. Attendee registration and logistics

Custom registration forms, dietary needs, t-shirt sizes, room assignments, all in the platform. Your ops lead is not managing 12 spreadsheets.

6. Expert support

Every client gets a dedicated Nowadays partner who knows your program, your preferences, and your budget. Our AI acts, and when you need a human, we're there.

7. Post-event reconciliation

We audit the final folio, catch billing errors, and close the loop financially. No more surprise charges two weeks after everyone's home.

Why we're different

Every competitor you've heard of bolted AI onto infrastructure built decades ago. We built around AI from day one, which is why a small team can do at scale what legacy platforms need armies of account managers to do.

Our AI calls venues in 22 languages, parses 50-page proposals into clean apples-to-apples comparisons, and routes every meeting through approval workflows, including the small ones EAs used to book on their own.

One Fortune 500 VP uncovered $18M in previously unmanaged meeting spend just by turning Nowadays on.

Use Cases

• Quarterly offsites: for remote-first teams who need to meet all their new employees
• Leadership retreats: for executive teams running strategic planning sessions
• Sales kickoffs: with complex AV, F&B, and multi-day programming needs
• International group travel: we handle the complexity of multi-country logistics end to end

Where We Are Now

We work with companies ranging from ones planning one epic kickoff a year to ones running thousands of meetings through the platform annually. Clients include Google, Airbnb, BlackRock, Anthropic, Pylon, and Mintlify.

We've run retreats from San Diego to Thailand, from 20-person leadership offsites to 500+ person company kickoffs.

We won both judges' choice and people's choice at Business Travel Show America 2025 and Business Travel Show APAC 2026, the two biggest innovation competitions in corporate travel.

Why Now

Corporate travel spend is back and growing. But the infrastructure for planning events hasn't caught up. Legacy travel companies are slow, opaque, and not built for the modern distributed workforce. We're rebuilding this from scratch with AI at the core and a team that treats every event like it's our own.

We're growing!!

We're hiring across the board for founding team members, engineers, operators, and account executives who want to work on a problem that's genuinely hard and unsolved, with a really fun team in San Francisco.

See open roles: nowadays.ai/careers

Get started

Book a call: meetings-na2.hubspot.com/amy-yan

Email us: [email protected]