For Event Planners & AV Producers

KNOW IF
THE ROOM
ACTUALLY
FITS.

WIFT calculates production-ready venue capacity in under 30 seconds — accounting for stage, screens, AV, rigging, and code-compliant aisles. No training required.

No Training Required Results in 30 Seconds Works on Site Visits
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Max rework cost
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Avg rework cost
The real cost of confirming the wrong room.

When venue sourcing goes wrong early, it cascades through everything: AV redesign, equipment changes, revised contracts, updated floor diagrams, speaker reassignments, new marketing materials, and registration adjustments. WIFT costs $599/year. The mistake it prevents costs 18× that.

Built For

The people who need
the real number.

01
Corporate Event Planners
Confirm rooms with confidence before you present to stakeholders. Stop over-committing to venues that can't handle your production footprint.
02
Meeting Planners
Walk into every site visit ready to validate the room on the spot. Know before you leave whether the space works — not after you've signed the contract.
03
AV Production Companies
Validate the room before you quote. Catch footprint conflicts early and protect your margin from the change orders that come from rooms confirmed on bad data.

Same room.
Very different reality.

This is a 1,768 sq ft room. The hotel says it holds 72. WIFT — accounting for stage, screens, FOH position, and code-compliant aisles — calculates 36. That gap is where cost cascades begin.

WIFT app side-by-side showing hotel-stated capacity of 72 versus WIFT production-ready capacity of 36 in the same 1,768 sq ft room
72
What the hotel tells you
36
What WIFT shows you
Same room  ·  34’ × 52’  ·  1,768 sq ft  ·  Production setup with stage, screens, and FOH

You've confirmed a room
that didn't actually work.

Venue capacity numbers are almost always wrong for production events. WIFT exists because we've lived that problem — and built the tool we wished we had.

01
Venue Capacity ≠ Production Capacity

A room that holds 500 for a reception holds 280 once you add a stage, LED wall, rigging, and production footprint. WIFT calculates the real number in seconds.

02
Site Visits Require Instant Answers

You're standing in the room with a client and a sales manager. You need a confident answer right now — not in 45 minutes when you've sketched it out by hand.

03
Wrong Rooms Mean Costly Change Orders

A room confirmed on bad capacity data means venue changes, re-quoting AV, revised contracts, and a client who blames you. An expensive mistake to fix — and an avoidable one.

Three inputs.
One confident answer.

No learning curve. No training required. Just the answer you need to confirm a venue or move a deal forward — in 30 seconds.

01
Enter Room Dimensions

Input the room's square footage and dimensions. Works on mobile — right from a site visit. No CAD skills, no learning curve.

02
Define Your Production Footprint

Tell WIFT what your event needs: stage size, LED wall, rigging grid, FOH position, breakout areas. It factors all of it into the calculation.

03
Get Your Real Capacity

WIFT tells you exactly what fits — and what doesn't — before you sign anything. Production-accurate capacity with a to-scale floor plan in under 30 seconds.

68,000 impressions.
117 event professionals said the same thing.

These aren't testimonials we wrote. These are real planners and producers responding to a single post about venue capacity — before WIFT existed.

It's very frustrating. You can ask the question multiple times. Press them further. And still once the contract is signed suddenly you get different numbers because they say they interpreted your question differently.

Timothy Calder
Director of Global Event Marketing | Community Building | Driving SaaS Growth

Projection tends to be the biggest "seat eater" when building room diagrams, especially when rigging is not an option. I always recommend clients have their technical partner create an initial layout to confirm realistic seating capacities with production elements included.

Matthew Hoagland
CPO & Co-Founder | Event Technical Production, Design & Execution

I also love when I talk to a sales rep and refer to a room's capacity that I found on their website and they tell me it's wrong. Like… please… it's your hotel — why do you need to make this harder than it needs to be.

Shanondoah Nicholson
Events | Travel | Career Coach | Podcaster

There's a clear distinction between a banquet diagram and a production diagram. Venue event managers aren't the enemy — they're doing their job. But that gap is real, and it falls on the planner to catch it before contract.

Craig Trosclair
Executive Producer & Live Event Production Leader | Corporate & Association Events

So many venues mislead to close the deal and may even have junior sales people who look at a venue PDF but don't understand the needs for production.

Laurie Weitzkorn
Global Luxury Event Specialist | Corporate & Private | High-End Weddings, Fundraisers

Site inspection BEFORE contract is key here. A lot of corporate clients are taking this step AFTER contract when it is too late.

J.R. Spiess
CEO, WIFT & The 180 Group | 20+ Years in Live Event Production

Not just a floor plan tool.

Cvent Event Diagramming renders your room. Vectorworks drafts it. WIFT validates whether your production physically fits — with no training and results in 30 seconds.

Feature ✦ WIFT Cvent Event Diagramming Vectorworks Manual Process
Production-accurate capacity ✓ With hours
of manual work
AV & rigging footprint modeling ✓ Manual
diagramming only
Physical feasibility validation ✓ Only after
full drawing
Time required 30 seconds 30–60 min
to diagram
Hours of
CAD work
Hours per
venue
Results in under 30 seconds
No training required
Works on mobile (site visits)
Floor plan rendering
Starting price $59.99/mo $199+/mo $800+/yr Free (your time)

Simple. Transparent.
One price. No per-seat trap.

No enterprise contracts. No seat limits. Full access on both plans.

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Monthly
$59.99
per month, billed monthly
  • Unlimited floor plan validations
  • Production footprint modeling
  • AV & rigging feasibility checks
  • Exportable floor plan PDFs
  • Mobile-ready for site visits
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