What we have built, and what comes next

1. ShippedJuly 2026

   The foundation

   A catalogue you can actually search, an account that remembers what you care about, and an editorial back office behind it. Categories, roles and permissions are rows in a database rather than constants in the code, so a new market never waits for a release.

   21 of 21 features live

2. ShippedJuly 2026

   Reading a conference from its website

   Paste a link and the system reads the page for itself: structured data first, then heuristics, then a language model. Everything it extracts is checked against reality — impossible dates, invented countries and made-up categories are thrown away — and a person approves the result field by field before anything is published.

   7 of 7 features live

3. ShippedJuly 2026

   The watch that never sleeps

   Conference websites change quietly — a stage moves, a price jumps, a speaker disappears. Every page we know about is re-read on a schedule and any difference becomes a proposal for an editor. A field somebody edited by hand is never overwritten, and a temporarily broken website can never delete content.

   5 of 6 features live · 1 in beta

4. In progresstarget Q3 2026

   Freshness you can measure

   Every record carries the day it was last compared against its source, and a disagreement does not count as a check. Records that go quiet are pushed back to the front of the queue automatically, so measuring freshness leads to action rather than to a chart nobody reads.

   0 of 2 features live · 2 in beta

5. In progresstarget Q3 2026

   Enough content to be worth your time

   The hardest item on this list is not code — it is filling the catalogue with conferences whose dates, places and prices have actually been checked. We would rather show you fewer events than publish a skeleton with a missing date. Email is wired up and the first messages are going out.

   0 of 5 features live · 5 in beta

6. In progresstarget Q3 2026

   Finding conferences nobody told us about

   A daily sweep of exhibition centres, open datasets, trade media and call-for-paper networks, with each find scored and given a readable reason. Accepting a find does not create anything — it only queues it for extraction, so nothing reaches the catalogue without a second human decision. Built and tested; still proving itself in production.

   0 of 7 features live · 7 in beta

7. Plannedtarget Q4 2026

   A reason to come back

   Compare a handful of events side by side with the differences marked, put one in your calendar with the right time zone, filter by how far it is from home and what is left of your budget, and be told when a saved search finds something new.

   0 of 4 features live

8. Plannedtarget Q1 2027

   Paying for itself

   Deliberately last: there is nothing to sell without an audience. Paid tiers for people who plan a whole season, highlighted listings for organisers, and analytics showing an organiser what ConfBeacon actually brought them. Organisers will never be able to buy a better ranking — that refusal is the product.

   0 of 4 features live

9. Plannedtarget Q2 2027

   Who else is going

   Seeing who else from your field will be in the room, and getting in touch without handing over your email address. It only makes sense once enough people are going to the same events, so it waits.

Dates on unfinished work are targets, not promises — a quarter we are aiming at, and we will move it here rather than quietly let it slip. Anything already shipped carries the month it went live.