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🎪 Budget an Event Before You Book Anything

Build the calculator you keep rebuilding in a spreadsheet, then put it on a link anyone can use. These prompts turn a formula into a working app: clean inputs, a result people trust, a saved record of every calculation, and an assistant that explains what the number means. Useful on your own desk, and useful in public as the page that brings people to you.
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Budget an Event Before You Book Anything

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I run events and I only find out whether they worked afterwards. Build me an event budget calculator. Let me enter fixed costs as separate lines such as venue hire, equipment, marketing and speaker fees, and per-head costs such as catering, materials and staffing ratios. Enter expected attendance and ticket price. Show total cost, total revenue, profit or loss, break-even attendance and the break-even ticket price at expected attendance. Add a contingency percentage that I set based on how far ahead I am booking. Show a table of profit at several attendance levels so I can see the shape of the risk. Add an AI agent that models a disappointing turnout, tells me at what point I should cancel or downsize the venue, and by when that decision has to be made. Automate a scheduled reminder at each decision deadline and a weekly budget update as real costs are recorded. Two logins: an organiser who builds budgets, and an owner who approves spend.

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Budget an Event Before You Book Anything

Separate fixed and per-head event costs to find break-even attendance and ticket price, with a lead-time contingency.

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Events fail on the gap between fixed and per-head costs. This separates them, then shows the break-even attendance, which is the only number that matters early on.

What's Included

  • Fixed and per-head costs separated because they behave completely differently.
  • Break-even attendance and break-even ticket price.
  • A contingency sized to how far out you are booking.
  • An assistant that models a poor turnout honestly.

How To Use

  1. Split fixed from per-head before anything else. It drives every decision.
  2. Work out break-even attendance early, while you can still change the venue.
  3. Add contingency proportional to lead time, not a flat ten percent.
  4. Model a disappointing turnout. Plan for it rather than hope.

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