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Business Opportunity Discovery

While useful features are being added rapidly to Smart Events we are setting up the scene for a B2B opportunity-discovery solution focused on business meetups.

01 — A call or meetup

Appeal from the founder

As the founder of Any.Company, I have been learning about your company through publicly available information. Our product is still evolving, so rather than making assumptions, I would like to learn more about one of your products or services that could benefit from location tracking or incremental consent.

Let's find out

A short conversation or meetup with the appropriate person in your organisation would be extremely valuable. The goal is simple: understand a real problem first, then explore whether we can build something useful around it.

03 — Smart Events

Engaging communities beyond events

Smart Events is our current public-facing focus. It is being developed for organisations that need more than a ticketing or registration page.

Core capabilities

• QR-based visitor and participant flows
• Event check-in
• Participant tracking
• Optional location and presence
• Incremental consent
• Multiple personas
• Private and organisation-managed events
• Event agendas
• Voting and feedback
• Event advertising
• Sponsors
• Participant discovery
• One-to-one meetings
• Data export

The important distinction is control.

An organiser can define what an event needs. A participant can decide what they are willing to share. The system can therefore support a simple event with no location tracking, or a more advanced event where proximity, arrival or participant discovery is useful.

Organisations can also retain control of their event records, apply retention rules and export their data.

04 — The interesting part: incremental consent

Consent does not have to be all or nothing.

This is one of the areas where we see significant potential. Consider a participant at an event. They may be comfortable with:

Registering for the event.

Showing that they have arrived.

Being discoverable near the venue.

Sharing their location for a limited period.

Receiving an offer from an event sponsor.

These are different decisions. They should not necessarily be hidden inside one permanent permission.

Any.Company is being designed around this kind of progressive participation.

Our existing privacy model already supports different location-sharing rules at persona and group level, including event-specific settings.

05 — Where this could become commercially useful

We are particularly interested in situations where physical presence changes the value of a product or service.

Examples include:

Retail

A customer approaching a location could receive a relevant, consent-based interaction.

Hospitality

Visitors could discover services, offers or other participants at the right moment.

Events

Sponsors could engage people who have actively chosen to participate.

Professional networks

Attendees could discover relevant people based on interests, availability or location.

Travel

Groups could coordinate meeting points, breaks and participant presence.

Communities

Members could discover nearby activities or people without exposing their exact location.

Business services

A company's physical visits could become a source of structured opportunity discovery.

These are examples, not predefined solutions.

We want to find the use case with you.

06 — Gap

Turn events to into business opportunities.

Gap is an emerging B2B concept within the Any.Company R&D direction.

The goal is not to create another business directory. It is to explore a more active model:

Find the next useful business opportunity instead of searching through the entire market.

This is still an R&D direction. We are looking for companies that can help us determine where it has genuine commercial value.

07 — What makes Any.Company different?

Our interaction model stand out.

The platform is intentionally broad enough to support custom requirements.

• Different personas — The same person can participate differently in different environments.
    Social: Salsa events → board games → local activities
    Professional: Industry events → networking → business communities
    Organisational: Internal events → public events → temporary programmes

• Different identities — People can use context-specific aliases. This is useful when an organisation wants participation without requiring everyone to expose their normal public identity.

• Different levels of presence — An event can use: no location → approximate presence → proximity → controlled location sharing. The capability can therefore match the use case.

• Different lifetimes — Temporary → event-based → recurring → permanent. Temporary accounts and time-limited access are also part of the platform direction.

08 — Built for organisations

Turn events into company assets

We do not want an organisation to simply rent an audience from a public social network. The platform is designed around organisation-controlled communities and events. This includes:

• Organisation branding
• Access controls
• Private and invitation-only events
• Participant roles
• Temporary access
• Configurable retention
• Data export
• Participant privacy controls
• Optional location sharing
• Auditability
• Integration with external systems

The broader product direction is to let organisations keep control of the community and records they create.

09 — Why work with us?

We are small enough to adapt.

An established platform often has to protect an existing product architecture, roadmap and customer base. Any.Company does not have that constraint.

A pilot can influence the product.
A customer problem can become a feature.
An integration can be designed around the actual workflow.

This makes us particularly interested in small, focused pilots.

We do not need to start with a large procurement project. We can start with one real problem.

10 — What we can provide

Landing contracts as a small company is tough

That's why we rely on excellence, agility, and competitive pricing.

• Competitive pilot pricing — Keep the initial commitment small.
• Rapid customisation — Develop around the actual business workflow rather than forcing the workflow into a fixed product.
• Third-party integration — We can build lightweight bridge integrations where they make commercial sense.
• Flexible authentication — Support different login and identity models.
• Organisation branding — Create an experience aligned with the organisation rather than presenting another generic consumer application.
• Data ownership — Export and control the data generated through the relationship.
• Event accessories — Where the physical experience needs it, we can also explore QR, NFC or other event-specific accessories.
• Direct founder involvement — During an early pilot, the person making the product can also be the person discussing the problem with you.

11 — Progress so far

From prototype towards real-world use

The project has moved beyond the initial concept stage. We have:

• Run small events in real environments.
• Tested critical participant flows.
• Built event and one-to-one interaction workflows.
• Developed QR-based event flows.
• Added event agendas, voting and feedback capabilities.
• Developed participant and persona concepts.
• Built location privacy controls.
• Continued migration towards cloud infrastructure.
• Invested heavily in automated, state-machine-driven testing.
• Started planning collaborations with small businesses in London.

The technical foundation also draws on substantial experience in distributed, real-time and location-aware systems, including large-scale tracking and geospatial processing.

12 — What we are looking for now

We are deliberately keeping this list short.

Pilot customers

A real business problem we can test together.

Product partners

Companies with an existing service where Any.Company could add a location, event or interaction layer.

Event organisers

People who understand what actually happens before, during and after a live event.

Referrals

An introduction is valuable if you know someone who faces these problems.

Angel investment

Funding to accelerate the transition from R&D into commercial deployment.

Alternative financing

Strategic partnerships, commercial pilots or other ways of funding product development.

13 — The question for your organisation

I am not asking you to evaluate the whole platform. Instead, I would like to ask one question:

Where could knowing that someone is physically present, nearby, available or interested create additional value for one of your products or services?

The answer could be: customer acquisition, retention, event engagement, sponsorship, retail, networking, sales, operations, safety, community management or business discovery. Or something we have not considered.

That is exactly why I am reaching out.

14 — Let's test one idea

If one use case comes to mind, I would be interested in discussing it. The first step does not need to be a contract.

It can be a 30-minute conversation about one product, one customer journey or one operational problem.

If there is no useful opportunity, we will know quickly. If there is one, we can define a small pilot.

Book 30 minutes →

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15 — What is Any.Company?

A platform for purposeful real-world interaction

Any.Company combines several capabilities that are normally separated between event-management, community, networking and location products.

Events

Create and manage private or public events.

People

Help participants discover relevant people, conversations and opportunities.

Meetings

Support scheduled one-to-one meetings and informal meetups.

Presence

Use optional location and proximity features when they solve a real problem.

Identity

Allow different personas and aliases for different contexts.

Business

Give organisations opportunities to sponsor events, engage visitors and create location-aware interactions.

The current platform already supports events, location-aware interactions, multiple personas and different business-oriented use cases.

Available in person or remotely

Florin Cumpanasu
Founder & Software Architect, London, UK

office@Any.Company

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