An introduction happens
only if both people want it.
Guests choose to write a short profile, look through the other guests who did the same, and privately mark the people they would like to meet. Contact details are exchanged only when the interest runs both ways. The host sees how many joined and how many introductions happened, and never who chose whom.
Included in the Event Pass, $29 once · Off until the host turns it on · Opt-in for every guest
The privacy rules are the feature
Everything below is a rule the server applies, not a setting in an interface that could be worked around by the next screen somebody builds.
Nobody is in it until they say so
There is no roster to be listed on. A guest writes their own short profile and ticks a box to join; a name already sitting in the guest list is never turned into a profile on their behalf. A guest who does not join is not visible to anyone and is not counted as a person who declined.
Details are released only on a mutual yes
Browsing is private. When you mark interest, the other person is not told. The contact detail either guest wrote down is handed over only when both of them have marked interest in each other, and never before.
A pass is invisible, and so is silence
Skipping someone removes them from your deck and tells them nothing. From the outside a pass and a not-yet-decided look identical, which is the only version of this that is safe to use in a room where everyone will meet at dinner anyway.
The host sees two numbers, not a diagram
How many guests joined and how many introductions were made. There is no list to expand, and the interface behind it has no shape that could return one. The host screen says this in plain words, because a host will be asked during the event.
Withdrawing removes both directions
One button deletes a guest's profile and every decision touching them, including the ones other people made about them. It keeps working after the host switches the feature off, so nobody is left with data they cannot reach.
Deleted afterwards by a job, not by a promise
Profiles and connections are removed a couple of days after the event ends by a scheduled task that runs every hour. It reports how many rows it deleted and nothing about whose they were.
Two modes, one mechanism
The host chooses which room they are in. The rules underneath do not change; only the words a guest is asked for do.
Social — a wedding, a birthday, a party
For the people who came on their own and would like to know somebody by the time the music starts. A name, a line about themselves, and a few things they are into. It is an introduction, not a date: what it produces is a way to say hello to somebody at the bar.
Business — a conference floor or a trade show
Attendees say what they do and who they are hoping to meet, and swap details when the interest runs both ways. It replaces the badge-scan approach, in which one person collects a stranger's details without the stranger agreeing to anything.
How it works
The host turns it on and picks a mode
Social or business. Off is the default. Turning it off later hides the page immediately; it does not delete anything, because deleting a guest's profile is the guest's decision and the scheduled purge.
A guest opts in
A display name, an optional one-line headline, a short paragraph, up to 10 interests, and one contact detail of their own choosing — an email, a phone number, a handle, or a sentence. Profiles carry no guest-uploaded photograph.
They browse and decide privately
One card at a time, only people who opted in, and only while the browsing guest is browsable themselves. Interest and passes are both recorded so the deck stays sane on a reload, and neither is shown to the other person.
A mutual yes exchanges the details
Both sides see the other's contact detail at the same moment, and nothing is exchanged in any other case. What happens next happens in their own messages, or across the room.
What it does not do
A feature that handles a guest's contact details should be as clear about its limits as about its uses.
There is no messaging inside Picsui
A mutual yes hands over the detail each guest chose to share and stops there. We do not host the conversation, and we do not want a copy of it.
We cannot verify that a person is who they say they are
A profile is what a guest typed. What Picsui can prove is that they hold a guest token for this event, which is not the same as proving anything about them.
A detail, once shared, has left our control
Changing your mind removes the other side's access on the spot, because matches are recomputed from live decisions rather than stored. It cannot remove what somebody already wrote down.
It is one room, for a few days
Profiles do not follow a guest to another event, there is no account to accumulate a history, and the whole thing is deleted shortly after the event ends. This is a tool for one evening, not a network.
For organisers who are asked about data
A guest chooses what to write and what contact detail, if any, to include. Nothing is inferred from the guest list, nothing is shared with another event, and nothing survives the event by more than a couple of days. Organisers who need the retention and security answers in writing can find them on the security page or ask us directly.
Questions hosts and guests ask
Is this a dating feature?
No. It is an introduction tool, and it is written to work as well for a conference floor as for a wedding table: a short profile, a private yes or no, and an exchange of contact details when the interest is mutual. It carries no photo uploads, no chat and no ranking, and the host chooses whether it exists at their event at all.
When exactly is a contact detail shared?
Only when both people have marked interest in each other, and the rule is enforced on the server rather than in the interface. One function is the only place in the codebase where a contact detail can be copied from one guest's profile into what another guest sees, and it copies it only when the mutual flag is exactly true. The browsing deck goes through it with that flag false, and a decision is answered by writing your choice, reading the other person's choice back out of the table, and comparing the two before anything is attached to the response.
Can the host see who marked interest in whom?
No. The host is shown how many guests opted in, how many are currently browsable, and how many mutual introductions were made. There is no list behind those numbers to open, and the host's own screen states the limit, because someone will ask them during the event.
What happens to the profiles after the event?
They are deleted, along with every decision, a couple of days after the event ends. That is done by a scheduled task that runs every hour rather than by anyone remembering to do it, and it records only how many rows it removed.
Can a guest change their mind or take it back?
Yes, in three different degrees. They can hide their profile, which takes them out of everyone's deck while keeping introductions they have already made. They can turn a yes back into a no, which withdraws the other side's access to their contact detail immediately. Or they can withdraw entirely, which deletes their profile and every decision in both directions, including the ones other people made about them.
Does the other person find out when someone skips them?
No, and nothing about the interface hints at it either. A pass and a decision that has not been made yet are indistinguishable from the outside, which matters most at an event where the two people will be at the same dinner regardless.
What does a guest need to install?
Nothing. It opens in the phone browser from the same event link the photo gallery uses, and the guest page itself is never indexed by search engines. There is no account, and no password to choose.
What does guest networking cost?
It is part of the Event Pass, $29 paid once for the event, rather than an extra sold on top. There is no per-guest or per-introduction charge.
Turn it on for one event and see
It is a switch and a choice of two modes, and it can be switched off again at any point during the event. If you want to walk through the privacy model before you use it with real guests, write to Support@Picsui.com.