What Happens When You Let an AI Screen Your Guest List?
Approval-only events are great for vibe and awful for your evenings. How AI screening works, where it helps, and where you should stay in charge.
The Valore team · · 1 min read
Requiring approval is the easiest way to shape a room: the right founders at the founder dinner, real locals at the neighborhood mixer, no bots on your free drinks night. The catch is that someone has to read every application, and that someone is you, at 11pm, three nights in a row.
How AI screening works in Valore
You write your criteria in plain language, like "Approve people who work in climate or energy; flag anyone whose answers are blank or look automated." When a registration comes in, the Valore Agent reads it against your criteria and the guest's answers and gives a verdict: approve, decline or needs review, with a short reason.
- You choose whether approvals and declines apply automatically or wait for you.
- Anything unclear is flagged for review instead of guessed at.
- If the model is unavailable, registrations fall back to manual review, and you aren't charged for the failed run.
Where it helps most
Screening shines on high-volume, clear-criteria events: sorting hundreds of applications to a conference side-event, spotting spam sign-ups on a free event, or approving the obvious yeses so your attention goes to the borderline cases.
Where you should stay in charge
Don't hand off decisions that need context the application doesn't show, like a friend-of-a-friend you'd want there regardless. Keep auto-decline off until you've watched a few batches of verdicts, and read the reasons. They're the fastest way to tune your criteria.
