We're fixing the part everyone gave up on
Every event marketplace has the same problem, and none of them will say it out loud: the reviews are not trustworthy. Anyone can write one. Nobody has to prove they hired the vendor, or that the event happened at all.
That failure is not neutral. It punishes exactly the professionals you would want to hire — the ones spending their time doing the work rather than manufacturing social proof — and it leaves hosts making the single most expensive decision of their year on evidence they cannot check.
So we started from the opposite end. Instead of detecting fake reviews after they are written, we made them impossible to write. A review on EventConnective requires a completed Verified Event Chain: a host created an event, tagged the professional, and both confirmed afterwards that the work was done.
The consequences run through everything else. If reviews are real, ranking can be based on them — which means there is no promoted placement to sell, which means the business model has to be a flat subscription rather than a cut of somebody's booking. One decision, and the rest follows.