Hosted gatherings

# Not live yet (gaps #2)
curl -X POST "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns?mode=try" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"play":"gatherings"}'

 1import { $ } from 'startup-builder'
 2
 3return await $.Campaign.create({ play: 'gatherings' }, { mode: 'try' })   // dry run on the day-0 Startup, 2026-08-24 · Not live yet, gaps #2

npx startup-builder do Campaign.create --json '{"play":"gatherings"}' --try   # Not live yet (gaps #2)

{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Campaign.create({ play: 'gatherings' }, { mode: 'try' })   // dry run on the day-0 Startup, 2026-08-24 · Not live yet, gaps #2",
    "mode": "try"
  }
}

 1{
 2  "type": "https://startupbuilder.dev/errors/refused",
 3  "title": "Refused",
 4  "status": 422,
 5  "detail": "gatherings can’t start yet: 1 check fails and 1 warns.",
 6  "checks": [
 7    {
 8      "check": "use-when",
 9      "status": "pass",
10      "observed": "11 engaged Organizations in Austin in 90 days; Deals at $2,400 a year",
11      "doc": "/plays/gatherings#check-use-when",
12      "fix": "None needed: 8 in one city is enough.",
13      "then": "Metric.query"
14    },
15  …

curl "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/events?where=name%20in%20(%22Prospect.engaged%22%2C%20%22Integration.synced%22%2C%20%22Gathering.registered%22%2C%20%22Registration.attended%22%2C%20%22Registration.missed%22%2C%20%22Lead.qualified%22%2C%20%22Task.completed%22%2C%20%22Lead.converted%22)&limit=1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"

# Not live yet (gaps #7)
curl -X POST "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/triggers/fire?mode=try" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"like":"event_1871"}'

# Not live yet (gaps #7)
curl "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/decisions?where=on%20%3D%20%22cluster_6%22" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"

# Not live yet (gaps #7)
curl "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions?where=on%20%3D%20%22cluster_6%22" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"

 1import { $ } from 'startup-builder'
 2
 3const { events: [last] } = await $.Event.list({ where: 'name in ("Prospect.engaged", "Integration.synced", "Gathering.registered", "Registration.attended", "Registration.missed", "Lead.qualified", "Task.completed", "Lead.converted")', limit: 1 })   // { play } compiled to this Play’s Trigger Events
 4const { subject } = await $.Trigger.fire({ like: last.$id }, { mode: 'try' })   // the same Event again, in try mode · Not live yet, gaps #7
 5const { decisions: [decision] } = await $.Decision.list({ where: `on = "${subject}"` })   // what it chose, and why · Not live yet, gaps #7
 6const { actions } = await $.Action.list({ where: `on = "${subject}"` })   // what it did, with its checks · Not live yet, gaps #7
 7return { decision, actions }

npx startup-builder do Event.list --json '{"where":"name in (\"Prospect.engaged\", \"Integration.synced\", \"Gathering.registered\", \"Registration.attended\", \"Registration.missed\", \"Lead.qualified\", \"Task.completed\", \"Lead.converted\")","limit":1}'
npx startup-builder do Trigger.fire --json '{"like":"event_1871"}' --try   # Not live yet (gaps #7)
npx startup-builder do Decision.list --json '{"where":"on = \"cluster_6\""}'   # Not live yet (gaps #7)
npx startup-builder do Action.list --json '{"where":"on = \"cluster_6\""}'   # Not live yet (gaps #7)

{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "const { events: [last] } = await $.Event.list({ where: 'name in (\"Prospect.engaged\", \"Integration.synced\", \"Gathering.registered\", \"Registration.attended\", \"Registration.missed\", \"Lead.qualified\", \"Task.completed\", \"Lead.converted\")', limit: 1 })   // { play } compiled to this Play’s Trigger Events\nconst { subject } = await $.Trigger.fire({ like: last.$id }, { mode: 'try' })   // the same Event again, in try mode · Not live yet, gaps #7\nconst { decisions: [decision] } = await $.Decision.list({ where: `on = \"${subject}\"` })   // what it chose, and why · Not live yet, gaps #7\nconst { actions } = await $.Action.list({ where: `on = \"${subject}\"` })   // what it did, with its checks · Not live yet, gaps #7\nreturn { decision, actions }",
    "mode": "try"
  }
}

 1{
 2  "decision": {
 3    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/decisions/decision_533",
 4    "$type": "Decision",
 5    "choice": "plan-a-table",
 6    "reason": "9 Phoenix Organizations engaged in 90 days, none with an open Deal, and your calendar shows a Phoenix trip on Nov 18",
 7    "stakes": "medium",
 8    "options": [
 9      "plan-a-table",
10      "invite-who-engaged",
11      "go-or-cancel",
12      "your-note",
13      "note-a-no-show",
14      "to-the-ae"
15  …

action_2 holds a 10-seat table for Nov 18 under a $900 Limit; action_3 is your Approval of the format, the question, the date and the 9 names.

≈ +$590 ARR a month at a table every 6 weeks

Worth

5 h per table, then 10 min a week

Your time

$64 per cover, ~$470 a month at a table every 6 weeks

Spend

Day 14 after a table: first Meeting

First signal

$2,000+ Deals, 8+ engaged Organizations in one city

Use it when

Under 8 in any city: events-and-webinars · Deals under $2,000: founder-voice

Not yet when

Worth’s formula: about 1.6 Deals per table at 90 days (Other Startups’ results; none of yours has matured) × 0.7 tables a month × 0.35 won × $2,393 first order ARR ≈ +$586. Under First signal: A table reads at day 90, so Austin reads Dec 16 and Denver Jan 5; at a table every 6 weeks, a quarter holds 2 tables, too few for any half to read.

Runs inside: Field presence, as one of its options; this page keeps its own record and URL.

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npx startup-builder add play gatherings   # 1 · writes plays/gatherings.mdx (Not live yet, gaps #5)

# 2 · dry run; below, its 422 on 2026-08-24
curl -X POST "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns?mode=try" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"play":"gatherings"}'

# 3 · keep it, at You approve each one
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"play":"gatherings"}'

# on
curl -X PATCH https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns/gatherings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"endsAt":null}'

# off: bookings, invitations and notes pause; cards freeze
curl -X PATCH https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns/gatherings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"endsAt":"now"}'

{
  "type": "https://startupbuilder.dev/errors/refused",
  "title": "Refused",
  "status": 422,
  "detail": "gatherings can’t start yet: 1 check fails and 1 warns.",
  "checks": [
    {
      "check": "use-when",
      "status": "pass",
      "observed": "11 engaged Organizations in Austin in 90 days; Deals at $2,400 a year",
      "doc": "/plays/gatherings#check-use-when",
      "fix": "None needed: 8 in one city is enough.",
      "then": "Metric.query"
    },
    {
      "check": "baseline",
      "status": "warn",
      "observed": "no table in 90 days",
      "doc": "/plays/gatherings#check-baseline",
      "fix": "n 0: it reads before-after, not proof, beside Other Startups’ results.",
      "then": "Metric.query"
    },
    {
      "check": "consent-stop",
      "status": "fail",
      "observed": "the Form has no share-my-name box",
      "doc": "/plays/gatherings#check-consent-stop",
      "fix": "Add the share-my-name box to the Form; names stay private until ticked.",
      "then": "Form.update"
    },
    {
      "check": "role-unstaffed",
      "status": "warn",
      "roles": [
        "operations-lead",
        "sales-lead"
      ],
      "owned": 31,
      "doc": "/plays/gatherings#check-role-unstaffed",
      "fix": "Staff them, or leave it: bookings and Quotes come to you.",
      "then": "Role.staff"
    }
  ]
}

Austin cost $640 for 10 covers at $64, inside its $900 Limit, on a trip you were already taking; each draft costs about $0.02 (Worker cost). That comes to about $470 a month at a table every 6 weeks.

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{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/events/event_1871",
  "$type": "Event",
  "name": "Prospect.engaged",
  "at": "2026-10-19T07:00:09Z",
  "seq": 1871,
  "data": {
    "cluster": {
      "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/clusters/cluster_6",
      "metro": "Phoenix",
      "organizations": 9,
      "openDeals": 0,
      "held": 2
    },
    "trip": "2026-11-18"
  }
}

npx startup-builder trigger Prospect.engaged --like event_1871   # replays the delivery
npx startup-builder clock advance --by 20d   # then runs the 10-day go-or-cancel read
npx startup-builder listen Prospect.engaged --forward-to http://localhost:3000/hook

Who runs itCopy Anchor Link

SDR · your agent (role:prospector, worker_2) holds the Key Result. It finds the cities, plans each table, checks every guest against their class cap and drafts every invitation and note; you (Dana Okafor, person, worker_1) host, approve each table and send every word from your own Mailbox. A Quote asked at the table goes to AE · Priya Shah (person). Your number links to Did it work.

What it reads · What it may call. It reads announced engagement only: session questions, replies, comments and booked Meetings, never a visit, an open or an inferred city. Kitchen notes are deleted 7 days after the table and never reach a record. Its tools are POST /{namespace}/gatherings, POST /{namespace}/approvals, POST /{namespace}/tasks/{task}/assign, POST /{namespace}/decisions, POST /{namespace}/meetings/book, and any other call becomes an Approval under the Role’s Mandate.

You hold the SDR Key Result: 1.6 Deals per table at day 90.                      ← worker, metric
On each weekly scan, registration, seat or close, choose one option and say why. ← triggers, chooses
Invite only people who engaged in 90 days; the reason line cites their own act.  ← copyRules 2; sendGates Engagement gate
Name the city as where the table is, never as where they are.                    ← copyRules 4
No seat, meal or gift depends on a Meeting, a demo or a purchase.                ← sendGates No conditional seat
Draft every note for Dana; she sends it as written.                              ← your file, line 4

The slow loop. Two tables ran and neither has reached day 90, so the weekly Decisions kept the table rule as written and no Change was merged; there is no replay or read-back to print.

Bring your own agent (folded) drafts at You approve each one, like the seated agent, because every invitation and note goes from your Mailbox; POST /{namespace}/roles/{role}/staff seats it.

npx startup-builder eval --scenario gatherings-2 --agent "claude -p" --seat prospector   # seated: 23 of 23 invitations cite an announced act, 0 Checks failed sent · yours: 22 of 23, 1 failed `engagement-gate`

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Every table, invitation and note comes to you: you host and you send; a Quote asked at the table goes to AE · Priya Shah (person). One Brief per Role, as captured (brief is Not live yet, gaps #7).

[
  {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/tasks/task_662",
    "$type": "Task",
    "assignee": "worker_1",
    "due": "2026-10-20T07:00:00Z",
    "on": "cluster_6",
    "brief": {
      "what": "a 10-seat table in Phoenix, Nov 18, under a $900 Limit",
      "question": "What does a missed renewal really cost you?",
      "guests": "9 Organizations, each with an act they announced; 1 Customer anchor, if she agrees to be named",
      "never": [
        "a seat for a Meeting",
        "a pitch at the table",
        "their city named as where they are"
      ]
    }
  },
  {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/tasks/task_657",
    "$type": "Task",
    "assignee": "worker_3",
    "due": "2026-10-09T17:00:00Z",
    "on": "contact_93",
    "brief": {
      "who": "Rachel Kim, Summit Residential, 420 units, seated Oct 7",
      "said": "Could you send a Quote for all 6 owners?",
      "chose": "to-the-ae",
      "why": "a Quote is the AE’s",
      "never": [
        "what she said at the table, beyond her ask"
      ]
    }
  }
]

You and Priya answer with POST /{namespace}/tasks/{task}/claim (Take this one), POST /{namespace}/tasks/{task}/return with a reason, POST /{namespace}/approvals/{approval}/approve or POST /{namespace}/approvals/{approval}/refuse, each a one-call window; an Approval unanswered by its deadline expires and the table is released. Once a person claims, the agent’s pending drafts to that guest cancel with claimedByPerson (Not live yet, gaps #7). A Task nobody claims by its due time goes up through POST /{namespace}/tasks/{task}/escalate, and person-promise fires.

On time: you, 18 of 18 notes sent within 48 h, median 20 h, n 18, ■■□□ Early sign; AE · Priya Shah, 1 of 1 within 1 business day. Your queue: counted by kind: per table, 1 approval, about 12 invitations, 1 go-or-cancel and 9 notes; about 1 hand-off to Priya per table.

The fixed line: POST /{namespace}/deals/{deal}/assign sets owner to the receiving person, the agent is never a Deal’s owner, and Meetings land on the owner’s calendar under the owner’s name.

When it won’t sendCopy Anchor Link

The captured refusal, then the Stop that fired as a Campaign.paused reason (Not live yet, gaps #2); the rewrite that reached your tray is the second thread in Example.

{
  "type": "https://startupbuilder.dev/errors/refused",
  "title": "Refused",
  "status": 422,
  "detail": "The invitation to an Austin operator did not go to your tray: no engagement they announced in 90 days; a pricing-page visit is not one.",
  "checks": [
    {
      "check": "engagement-gate",
      "status": "fail",
      "doc": "/plays/gatherings#check-engagement-gate",
      "fix": "Invite only who engaged; a visit never counts.",
      "then": "Prospect.list"
    },
    {
      "check": "hospitality-cap",
      "status": "pass"
    }
  ]
}

[
  {
    "reason": {
      "limit": "spend-limit",
      "observed": "$940 charged",
      "bound": "$900 Limit",
      "window": "1 table"
    },
    "doc": "/plays/gatherings#stop-spend-limit",
    "task": "task_651"
  }
]

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Two tables are two units, and neither has reached its day 90, so the basis is before-after (rule o): Now reads the Deals so far, Before reads no table, and nothing prints as Added. The hashed 15 % never invited reads each quarter, in Example, as what happened. Every node above the leaf is Not live yet (gaps #4).

{
  "$id": "decisions/decision_533",
  "$type": "Decision",
  "choice": "plan-a-table",
  "reason": "9 Phoenix Organizations engaged in 90 days, none with an open Deal, and your calendar shows a Phoenix trip on Nov 18",
  "stakes": "medium",
  "options": [
    "plan-a-table",
    "invite-who-engaged",
    "go-or-cancel",
    "your-note",
    "note-a-no-show",
    "to-the-ae"
  ],
  "by": "worker_2",
  "on": "cluster_6",
  "expected": "6 or more seated on Nov 18, and 1 or more Meetings by day 14",
  "reopensWhen": "under 4 guests outside the anchors at 10 days out: go-or-cancel"
}

The leaf counts Deals opened at seated guests’ Organizations per table, read 90 days after it; only tables past day 90 count (rule n), so Austin reads Dec 16 and Denver Jan 5.

How it moves it: each guest sat for two hours with peers and no pitch, then had your own note within a median 20 hours; 7 Meetings followed by day 14.

Guardrails: before against after: Meetings per 10 seated, 3.9 against Other Startups’ 4.2, and cost per seated guest, $68; 3 Deals and 1 trial are still deciding.

{
  "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/campaigns/gatherings",
  "$type": "Campaign",
  "play": "play:gatherings@1",
  "path": [
    "gathering-deal-rate",
    "opened-deals-and-trials",
    "new-arr",
    "net-new-arr",
    "arr"
  ],
  "experiment": {
    "metric": "gathering-deal-rate",
    "unit": "per-table",
    "heldBack": 6,
    "decision": null
  },
  "readout": {
    "value": null,
    "n": 2,
    "maturing": 2,
    "interval": null,
    "readability": "inadmissible",
    "basis": "before-after",
    "pooled": true
  },
  "ledger": {
    "spend": 1220,
    "workerCost": 2,
    "hours": 11.2,
    "openArr": 9600,
    "wonArr": 0,
    "projectedArr": 586,
    "paybackDays": null
  }
}

Outside benchmark: no measured range for founder-hosted table Deal rates survived the research’s check, so Other Startups’ results (n 540 tables) stand in.

Before it · After it. Before it: events-and-webinars, founder-voice and field-presence bring the people who engage. After it: written-references hears the guests who OK a case, and lead-nurture takes the ones with no next step.

ExampleCopy Anchor Link

Leaseline ran it from 2026-08-24 to 2026-10-19 (56 days): 2 tables, Austin on Sep 17 and Denver on Oct 7 inside field-presence; 23 invited, 18 seated, 6 Organizations held back. Read every captured thread at ?threads=all; three follow the tables.

Dana → an Austin operator, Aug 28 · You asked under my Aug 25 post how owners see renewals.¹ I’m hosting 8 property managers for dinner in Austin on Sep 17, Leaseline’s table, Customers and prospects both, to ask one question: what does a missed renewal really cost?² No demo, and no catch.³

Operator, Aug 29 · registered; seated Sep 17; Meeting with Dana Sep 26, and a Deal opened Oct 2.

- I saw you checking out our pricing page, so I’d love to have you at dinner.
+ You asked under my Aug 25 post how owners see renewals, so I’d love to have you at dinner.

Rachel Kim, Denver table, 2026-10-08 09:10 · “Could you send a Quote for all 6 owners?” · The Brief went to Priya (task_657), due 17:00 on Oct 9; Priya, Oct 8, 15:30 · *sent the Quote on the $2,400 plan, after Dana’s own note.*⁴

¹ The reason cites only an act they announced. ² The host and the Startup are named, and who attends. ³ No Offer and no condition on the seat. ⁴ A Quote is the AE’s.

Your settingsCopy Anchor Link

---
holdout: 0.15   # a hashed 15 % of engaged Organizations is never invited
---
Plan a 10-seat table when 8 or more companies in one city engage. Invite only who engaged; draft every invitation and note for Dana to send.

$ npx startup-builder show plays/gatherings
holdout 0.15 · 10 seats · 8 engaged in a city · Dana sends every word     your file  plays/gatherings.mdx:2,4 (Ask 2026-08-24)
worker role:prospector, owns never · chooses 6 (4 rule, 2 read) · sequences gathering-invitation, gathering-registration, gathering-attendee-follow-up, gathering-no-show-follow-up · approval every-send, delay-window, first-send · checks owned-by-a-person, consent-stop, claims-resolve, engagement-gate + 8 · stops 7 · placements gmail, outlook, yahoo-mail, linkedin · folds into field-presence    catalog  play:gatherings@1 (Not live yet, gaps #5)

Every key from the catalogCopy Anchor Link

Compiled, not written: edit the Play record gatherings and its Leaseline run, then regenerate. Every step runs from a sentence or a line of code. In your words: the CRM words you know, and where each lives here.