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Tentpole
Plan your team offsite in one thread: quotes, budget and trade-offs
- Score
- 43
- confidence 63
- Evidence
- 8
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 2
- named in sources
- First version
- 30 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2008
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Organizers compare venue quotes side by side, track live budgets, and draft vendor communications—planning work requiring tables, notes, and sustained focus. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
New retreat
Brief saved42 people
About this appAI proposal
Tentpole is a planning workspace for the person who has to organise the company retreat. Describe the group, dates, budget and mood in plain words. It keeps the brief, gathers venue quotes in one comparable format and tracks the budget as things change.
It is for founders and operators planning offsites for about 30 to 50 people who would rather not spend weeks on emails, PDF quotes and spreadsheets, and who do not want to pay a full-service planner.
Unlike form-based search, Tentpole remembers earlier decisions. Change the headcount or drop a night and it shows what moves in cost and options, and names the trade-off before you choose.
- Tagline
- The whole offsite, in one conversation.
- Voice
- CalmPlainPractical
- Why this name
- A tentpole is the pole that holds a tent up, like the one plan that holds the retreat together. It is short, easy to say and easy to spell.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
One running brief
Say what the retreat needs once. Dates, headcount, budget and must-haves stay attached to the plan and update as you talk.
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Quotes side by side
Paste or forward venue quotes and PDFs. Tentpole pulls room rates, meeting space, food and fees into one comparable table.
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Trade-off notes
When a change affects cost or fit, it shows the effect first, such as a third night versus a cheaper venue.
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Live budget
Venue, travel, food and extras roll into one budget with a cap. New quotes and edits adjust it automatically.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Tentpole
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. Following the opportunity, planning is free and revenue is a venue booking commission. The rate is not given and must be tested with venues.
Plan
Free
- Brief, quote comparison and budget
- Itinerary builder
- Shareable team page
Book
Contact us
- Commission on venue bookings made through it
- Booking support and contract tracking
- Same tools as Plan
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. The organiser shares a read-only team page with dates, place and schedule. Attendees see the Tentpole name on it, and many are founders or operators who may run their own offsites.
- Do they become customers?
- Attendees see the page once, which is exposure, not acquisition. Test how many of them later start their own plan from the page link.
- First customers
- Operations leads and founders at remote-first startups of 30 to 60 people planning their first or second annual offsite within the next six months.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News and founder forums: Post a worked example of a real offsite plan and invite people planning one to try it.
- Startup operator communities: Offer to plan one offsite free for several ops leads in exchange for feedback.
- Direct venue outreach: Approach retreat venues to agree booking commission and get quotes into the product.
- First milestone
- Five teams plan a real offsite in it and at least two book a venue through it, showing commission is viable.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimMost existing software is form-driven, but the real workflow is conversational and stateful.
- VerifiedHacker News post received 55 points and 61 comments
- Public claimPlanning a company retreat with 30–50 people involves weeks of back-and-forth emails for quotes, comparing inconsistent pricing across PDFs, and tracking budgets in spreadsheets.
- AI inferenceOffsites are expensive and high stakes; a single event can represent a significant chunk of a team's annual budget.
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · AI agentLarge language model with tool useKeeps conversation state, extracts quote data from PDFs and drafts vendor messages.
- This app · Venue dataVenue listings and partner feedsNeeds real venues, capacity and availability to quote; sourcing method is open.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialCommission only pays if teams book through it. Users may use the free planning, then book directly with the venue.
- DataReliable venue supply, capacity and pricing data for groups of 30 to 50 is hard to get. Partnerships may be needed.
- AIThe agent may misread quote PDFs or invent availability. Every figure needs a source link and a human check before booking.
- CommercialAnother company already says it has run many events with this model, so the market has an existing player to differentiate from.
- TechnicalVendor replies arrive slowly and in varied formats, so follow-up tracking and email parsing take care to get right.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.