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How We Work

A defined process, run the same way every time.

Every engagement moves through the same six stages, with the same checkpoints and the same commitments in writing. You know what happens next, what we need from you, and when — from the day you sign to the day your team runs it independently.

  1. 01Contract & Kickoff

    Day 0

    Scope agreed in writing, then a first call on the calendar within a few business days. You also receive a short preparation guide — what we’ll ask for, and where it usually already lives.

  2. 02Discovery

    Within ~2 weeks

    Two working sessions. The first covers how your organization runs events today — the last one you ran, what worked, what didn’t. The second confirms specifics: your calendar, your people, your event types.

  3. 03Building Your Workspace

    ~2–3 weeks

    Your dedicated CrownEvents.OS instance is provisioned and configured, and your upcoming events are loaded from our templates and tailored to how you run them, alongside your team, vendors and event history. You review it, we revise once, and it passes an internal quality gate before go-live. Nothing reaches you half-finished.

  4. 04Training & Go-Live

    Once your instance is ready

    A single working session — not a software demo. Your actual next event, already built in the system, with your team driving while we guide. Everyone leaves with their own login, having done something real, and your instance is live.

  5. 05Implementation Support

    60 days after go-live

    Check-ins every two weeks at first, then monthly, while the new process becomes the normal one. Our fastest response targets apply throughout: standard questions within one business day, and same-business-day attention for anything blocking an event in the next seven days.

  6. 06Handover

    Ongoing, on subscription

    A closing review once your first events have run the new way: what’s been delivered and what it returned, with the return report in your hands before the conversation. From there, your team runs the platform independently, and the Hosting & Support Subscription keeps it hosted, secured, maintained and supported. The subscription is required; it’s how CrownEvents.OS is licensed.

One engagement, run the same way for every client. The Hosting & Support Subscription that follows it is required — CrownEvents.OS is licensed only as a managed subscription — and for organizations that want a standing operations partner as well, the Advisory Retainer adds consulting time and priority support. We’ll scope what fits in a first conversation.

What’s Included

Your engagement stands it up. Your subscription keeps it running.

Every client gets the same engagement and the same subscription, scoped to your events rather than to a package. Pricing is set out in your proposal, after a first conversation.

Implementation Engagement

Your upcoming events, loaded and tailored to how you run them.

Everything it takes to set CrownEvents.OS up around how your organization actually operates, from discovery to go-live and the 60 days after.

  • Discovery sessions on how your events actually run today
  • A dedicated CrownEvents.OS instance, provisioned for your organization alone
  • Configuration around your event types, goals and ROI measures
  • Your upcoming events, built from CrownEvents.OS templates and tailored to your specs, with a round of revisions before go-live
  • Your team, vendor directory and past events loaded alongside them, so your ROI has a baseline
  • Hands-on training at go-live, and a written guide your team keeps
  • 60 days of implementation support, at our fastest response targets

Then your team runs it from there: create, edit and manage every event yourselves.

The number of events we load is agreed in your proposal.

Hosting & Support Subscription

Kept running, secure and supported, for as long as you use it.

Your engagement stands the platform up; your subscription keeps it running. It starts at go-live, and it’s required for access.

  • A dedicated, single-tenant instance, hosted in the United States
  • Daily backups and security monitoring
  • Platform updates and maintenance, applied for you
  • Unlimited named users at your organization
  • Confirmed defects fixed at no charge
  • How-to questions answered within 2 business days
  • A set allowance of light admin help each month

A 12-month initial term, then month to month. CrownEvents.OS is available only as a managed subscription, so access continues while the subscription is active. How your instance is protected.

Optional add-ons

Event Planning & Contracting

Our team plans and delivers one of your real events directly, alongside yours, so your team learns the new way of working on a live event rather than a hypothetical one.

How it works →

Advisory Retainer

A standing operations partner: consulting time every month, a monthly operations review, and priority support.

Ask about it →

Either can be added at signing or at any point while your subscription is active. Anything else, like another batch of events, reconfiguration or extra training, is scoped and quoted before any work starts.

What It Asks Of You

Less of your time than you’re expecting

Nothing here requires anyone on your side to become a software expert or a project manager. At each stage, the job is usually to show up to a call or send us a list.

Your decision-maker

0–0hours

Across the whole engagement

Whoever can approve scope and timing without checking with anyone else. Needed at kickoff and at the closing review, and reachable in between.

Your day-to-day planner

0–0hours

Most of it in Discovery and Training

Whoever actually runs events now, whatever their job title says. Both discovery sessions, the training session, and the person using the platform every week.

Everyone else on your team

0minutes

Once, at the training session

Everyone on your team gets their own login. One working session, and they're operating in it — not scheduled for a training course.

What we ask you to send

All of it is material you already have. Send it exactly as it is — no cleaning up, no reformatting, no retyping into a template. Structuring it is our job, and the messy original tells us more than a tidy summary would.

  • However you track which events are happening — a spreadsheet, a shared calendar, someone's inbox
  • Who on your team needs a login — names and work email addresses are enough
  • Your event budget, and what the last one actually cost once the invoices landed
  • Your vendor list, wherever it lives, plus any contracts and rate cards worth keeping
  • Your current checklist or run-of-show, so we can see what you track that we don't
  • Any post-event survey you've run — your existing satisfaction baseline

What we commit to, in writing

These aren’t aspirations. They’re terms of your engagement and your subscription, and they appear in your agreement.

During implementation support

The first 60 days after go-live

Standard questions
A response within 1 business day
Anything blocking an event in the next 7 days
Same business day
Everything in your agreed scope, working
Within the 60 days, or we add the time at no charge

Ongoing, on your subscription

For as long as your subscription is active

How-to questions
Answered within 2 business days
A confirmed defect
Fixed at no charge
Light admin help: user issues, settings, small data fixes
A set allowance each month
Anything beyond that
Quoted before any work starts

Support hours: Monday to Friday, 9–5 Central, excluding US holidays.

The only thing that genuinely slows an engagement down is waiting on information. The fastest ones are simply those where the calendar and the team list arrive early — everything else we work around.

Optional Add-On

When you want the event delivered, not just the process fixed.

Event Planning & Contracting

Everything above is the engagement every client gets. This is an add-on to it: for organizations that want more than the process and the platform, our team plans and delivers one of your real events directly — so your team learns on a live event, not a hypothetical one.

01

Train

Hands-on training for your team on event operations and CrownEvents.OS, built around how your organization actually works.

02

Plan & Deliver

We plan and deliver one of your real events directly in CrownEvents.OS — vendors, contracts, budget and timeline — working alongside your team from kickoff to close.

03

Handover

Your team is trained, equipped, and has a delivered event with a documented ROI report to show for it — ready to run the next one in CrownEvents.OS themselves.

  • Hands-on training for your team on event operations and CrownEvents.OS
  • One real event, planned and delivered directly, alongside your team
  • Venue and vendor sourcing, negotiation and contracting for that event
  • Built on your Implementation Engagement and your dedicated instance
  • A documented, repeatable process your team runs from then on
  • A post-event ROI report you can bring straight to leadership

Scoped to the size and complexity of the event under its own statement of work, and added to your Implementation Engagement rather than replacing it — at signing, or at any point while your subscription is active. Ask about it during your first conversation.

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Before You Commit

The questions that come up first

Answered the same way here as they are once you’re a client — every engagement starts with a written guide covering all of this and more.

Who needs to be involved, and for how long?

Two people carry it: whoever approves scope and timing, and whoever actually runs your events day to day. They’re frequently not the same person, and we need both — the second one more than the first. Everyone else who’ll use the system joins a single 90-minute training session at go-live.

Can we buy or self-host the software?

No. CrownEvents.OS is proprietary software: it’s licensed, not sold, and it’s available only as a managed subscription, on a dedicated instance we host, secure and maintain for you. It can’t be bought outright, self-hosted or copied, and the code is never handed over. The Implementation Engagement pays for the work of setting it up around your operation; the subscription keeps it running, with nothing for your IT team to install or patch.

What does the monthly subscription include?

Everything it takes to keep your instance running well: dedicated hosting in the US, daily backups, security monitoring, platform updates and maintenance, and support. Confirmed defects are fixed at no charge, how-to questions are answered within two business days, and a set allowance of light admin help (user issues, settings tweaks, small data corrections) comes with it each month. It’s required for access, starts at go-live, and runs for an initial 12-month term, then month to month.

How many people can use it?

As many as you need: unlimited named users at your organization. Everyone gets their own login at your organization’s email domain, and logins are never shared. Your account owners and admins add people, remove them and set their roles themselves. If someone outside your domain needs access, such as a contractor, we can add them once you’ve confirmed in writing that they’re bound by confidentiality.

What if we need a change?

Most changes are yours to make. From go-live, your team creates, edits and manages every event directly, with no request and no charge. When you’d like us to do something, like reconfigure your instance, load a new batch of events or run more training, send a change request: we’ll tell you whether it’s included, and quote anything that isn’t before any work starts. Feature ideas are welcome too. CrownEvents.OS is one platform, improved for every client, so good ideas go on the product roadmap rather than into a one-off version.

Do we own our data?

Yes. Your data is yours; the platform and methodology are ours. Your event records, budgets, vendor information and uploaded documents belong to you, and that’s written into your agreement, not just a policy. The software, its templates and the methodology behind them remain NorthCrown’s, licensed to you while your subscription is active. You can request a full export of your data during your term, and again in the 30-day window after it ends.

Is our data shared with other clients?

No. Every client runs on a dedicated, single-tenant instance, with its own database, its own private file storage and its own address, provisioned for you alone. It isn’t a shared system with your records partitioned off inside it. Nothing is shared between clients, your data is never sold, and it’s never used to train AI models. For a security review: a dedicated Postgres database and private S3-compatible storage per client, hosted in the US, not multi-tenant.

How your data is protected →
What happens if we stop paying or cancel?

Access runs on the subscription, so it ends when the subscription does, on a published schedule rather than by surprise. If an invoice goes unpaid, reminders come first; access then steps down to read-only, and later to suspended, before the agreement is terminated. After the initial 12-month term, you can end the subscription with 60 days’ written notice. Either way, when it ends you have a 30-day window to request a full export of your data. After that, your instance and all of its data, backups included, are permanently deleted, and you receive a certificate of deletion. Nothing is held hostage, and nothing is kept forever.

See the full data lifecycle →
Will this replace the tools we already use?

Partly, and deliberately not entirely. It replaces the spreadsheet-and-email-threads approach to running an event. It is not a full event-management platform and doesn’t try to be one — no ticketing, registration or on-site check-in. If you use something for those, keep it.

What happens to our existing vendor relationships?

They come with you — contacts, documents and spend history. The point is to stop losing that institutional memory between events, not to move you toward different suppliers.

What if the person who runs our events leaves?

The process is documented and the data is in the system, which is most of the point — an event operation that lives in one person’s head walks out the door with them. Your admins switch off their login and invite their replacement themselves, and the replacement inherits a working system and a written guide.

How do we know it worked?

You get a report comparing your events against the baseline you gave us at the start: hours, budget accuracy, and what the event actually returned. Built from your own numbers, not industry averages — and it arrives before the closing review, not during it.

Something not covered here? Ask us directly — you won’t get a sales sequence for it.

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