What you can do with an assistant

A connected assistant can do almost everything you can do in the GatherEasy app, and a few things the app doesn’t offer yet. Just describe what you want in your own words. The examples below show what’s possible.

Finding things to do

• “What’s on in Amsterdam this weekend? I like live music and food.”
• “Find free tech meetups within 10 km of me next week.”
• “What are my friends going to this month?”
• “Recommend events for me.”
• “Tell me more about the first one: who’s hosting, how many are going and what people said about the group’s past events?”
• “Show me reviews for this event.”
• “Find a venue for 40 people for a reception in De Pijp, with a projector and wifi.”
• “Rank these three venues for a relaxed design meetup.”

Finished events are left out unless you ask for past events.

RSVPs, tickets and invitations

• “RSVP me to the Quiet Readers Club.”
• “Do I have any event invitations? Accept the one from Lina.”
• “What am I going to next week?”
• “I’m on the waitlist for Saturday’s workshop. Accept the offer if there is one.”
• “What would happen if I cancelled my ticket for Friday?” The assistant previews the cancellation first.
• “Cancel my registration for Friday’s dinner.”
• “Update my answer to the dietary question to vegetarian.”
• “Give me the payment link for my pending ticket.” You complete the payment yourself in GatherEasy.
• “Send me my receipt for the jazz night” or “Resend my confirmation email.”
• “Add the book club to my GatherEasy calendar.”
• “Mark that event I found on another site as interesting.”

Hosting events

• “Create a draft event: Sunday Run Club, 9:00–10:30 on the 12th, Vondelpark, free, 30 places, with a waitlist.”
• “Duplicate last month’s workshop for the 14th” or “Make it a series: every first Thursday until March.”
• “Add two ticket types: Early bird €10 until Friday, then Regular €15.”
• “Create a 20% promo code FRIENDS for the workshop, limited to 10 uses.”
• “Add a required registration question: dietary requirements.”
• “Set the cover to this image” (paste a link).
• “What would cancelling Saturday’s event do? How many paid tickets would be refunded?”
• “Publish it.”

Running the door and the guest list

• “Give me a summary of everything that needs my attention across my events.”
• “Who’s on the waitlist for Saturday? Offer the next three places.”
• “Approve everyone pending for the workshop who answered the question.”
• “Find the guest called Sam Lee and check them in.” Or “Undo that check-in.”
• “Add my colleague Priya as a comp guest” (a free place on the list).
• “Invite everyone in my book club group who came to an event in the last six months.”
• “Remove the guest who registered twice.”
• “Export the guest list as a CSV.”
• “Show the refund requests for Friday and refund Maria in full.”
• “How is the event page doing? Where are visitors coming from?” or “What’s the payout for last week’s event?”
• “Show the event’s activity log.”

Co-hosts and announcements

• “Add Theo as a co-host and Jordan as check-in staff.”
• “Draft an announcement to everyone going: doors open at 18:45 instead of 19:00. Show me before you send.”
• “Schedule a reminder announcement for the morning of the event to guests who haven’t checked in.”
• “Send the announcement only to people with VIP tickets, with replies going to me.”

Groups

• “Find running groups in Utrecht and join the friendliest one.”
• “Create a group called Amsterdam Type Nerds, unlisted, based in Amsterdam.”
• “Who are the members of my group who haven’t come to an event in three months?”
• “Tag everyone who volunteered last time as ‘volunteer’.”
• “Make Lina an organiser of my group.” Or “Transfer ownership to Lina.”
• “Invite Sam to my group,” “approve the pending join requests” or “remove the spam account from my group.”
• “Put the partner workshop on my group’s calendar” or “Review the events submitted to my group.”
• “Send a message to every member of my group.”
• “How is my group doing? Show sales, insights and recent reviews.”

People, chats and posts

• “Who should I invite to my next event?”
• “Follow the host of last night’s event and add a private note: met at the book club.”
• “Catch me up on my chats” or “What did people say in the event chat?”
• “Message the hosts of Saturday’s dinner to ask if there’s a vegetarian option.”
• “Start a group chat with Lina and Theo called Saturday hikers.”
• “Mute the noisy group chat.”
• “Write a Circles post recapping last night’s event” or “Like and save Lina’s latest post.”
• “Block that account and report it for spam.”

Your account

• “What did I miss?”: notifications, invitations, chats and what’s next.
• “Turn off email for chat messages” or “Mark all my notifications as read.”
• “Update my bio” or “Use this photo as my profile picture” (paste a link).
• “Which devices am I signed in on? Sign out the old laptop.”
• “Request an export of my GatherEasy data.”

Email

With mail access and a linked mailbox, an assistant becomes a mail client too:

• “Triage my unread email.”
• “Find the venue’s quote from last week and reply to accept.”
• “Forward the invoice to Theo” or “Save a draft reply. Don’t send it.”
• “Email all guests of the workshop the slides, Bcc them.”
• “Send the venue an invite to my event with the calendar file attached.”
• “Accept the calendar invitation from the photographer.”
• “Turn this email about a meetup into a GatherEasy event.”
• “Schedule this email for Monday at 9.”

See Link an email account.

Ready-made prompts

GatherEasy gives your assistant a few guided starting points. Where your assistant shows MCP prompts (for example in Claude’s + menu or as / commands), look for:

Prompt	What it does
Plan an event	Turns an idea into a draft event: venues, date, tickets and questions, checking with you before each step.
Weekly host digest	Lists what needs your attention across upcoming events (approvals, waitlists, offers, refund requests) without changing anything.
Draft an event announcement	Writes an announcement for an event’s guests and sends it only after you approve.
What did I miss	Catches you up on notifications, chats, invitations and what’s next, most urgent first.
Find something to do	Suggests up to five events by time, place and interests, including what friends are going to, and asks before RSVPing.
Triage my inbox	Sorts unread mail into needs a reply, needs an action and can wait, and drafts replies without sending.

What assistants can’t do

• Charge you. Paid tickets stay pending until you complete checkout in GatherEasy. Assistants never see ticket codes.
• Transfer a ticket to someone else. Cancel, and let them register.
• Change a ticket’s price, quantity or payment. Assistants can edit your registration answers only.
• Send friend requests. Friends are people who follow each other.
• Delete an event with payment history. Cancel it instead. The record is kept for refunds.

Tips

• Be specific about which event. If you host several, name the event or its date.
• Read confirmations. Before anything is created, changed or sent, your assistant shows you the action. Check the details, especially for announcements and email, which reach people straight away.
• If something fails, check before repeating. Ask “did that announcement go out?” before trying again, so nothing is sent twice.