Running Your LACE Event
Everything an organizer needs to go from invitation to a completed, curated event — written from a live walkthrough of the actual organizer dashboard, event tools, and attendee signup flow.
Getting started
Organizer accounts are created by invitation only — there's no public sign-up page. LACE sends you a branded activation email; you set your own password from there.
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You receive an activation emailSubject line welcomes you to LACE. It contains a one-time activation link tied to your email address, valid for 72 hours — if it lapses, an admin can resend a fresh invitation.
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Open the link → “Welcome to LACE™”You'll be asked to create a password of at least 10 characters, and confirm it. LACE never sees or stores a password for you — the account is entirely yours.
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Click Activate my accountA brief “You're all set” confirmation appears, then you're redirected straight into your dashboard — no separate login step needed the first time.
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Future visits: Organizer LoginReturn anytime at your LACE Events URL and sign in with the email and password you set. A session lasts 7 days from login — after that, or after Sign out, you'll simply need to sign in again.
Your dashboard
Your dashboard is the home base for every event you run: a built-in checklist, the event-creation form, and a live table of everything you've created.
The getting-started checklist
The dashboard opens with an 11-step checklist that mirrors the real lifecycle of a curated event — it stays visible (or tap Hide) as a running reference:
- Create your event.
- Review the event details.
- Open curated registration.
- Copy your attendee signup link.
- Add the link to your ticket confirmation or attendee email.
- Monitor profile readiness.
- Close registration.
- Generate recommendations and suggested rounds.
- Confirm introductions after the event.
- Send the post-event survey.
- Review outcomes.
Creating an event
The Create event form asks for exactly what's needed to open registration — everything else is optional and tucked under Advanced settings.
Your events table
Every event you've created lists its live pool size and a row of actions:
| Event | Status | Pool | Links |
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| Conscious Connections: Fall Mixer 2026-11-14 · Austin, TX |
open Accepting registration |
0 ready / 0 registered | Copy signup link Open pool dashboard Duplicate for a new date Close registration |
| LACE Verification-Payload Test Event 2026-12-10 · Denver, Colorado |
draft Registration has not opened yet |
0 ready / 1 registered | Copy signup link Open pool dashboard Duplicate for a new date Preview signup page Open registration |
A draft event's signup link shows attendees “Registration has not opened yet” until you click Open registration — a confirmed action, since it's the switch that lets your signup link start collecting real people.
Running an event
Clicking Open pool dashboard on any event opens its full lifecycle view — from first registration through post-event outcomes.
At a glance
Once a pool has real registrants, the tiles fill in — here's a live event with 5 registrations, 4 completed profiles, and 3 generated recommendations:
Curated profile readiness
A live table of every registrant, with an Incomplete badge until they've finished all three signup steps, then Ready once their profile is complete. Each row shows the attendee's email under their name, their calculated age, their relationship intention and family plans in the words they chose, and any boundary note:
| Attendee | Age | Intention | Family plans | Boundary / notes | Status |
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| Guide Attendee Aria aria@example.com | 30 | Long-term partnership | Want kids someday | – | Ready |
| Guide Attendee Beau beau@example.com | 32 | Long-term partnership | Want kids someday | Non-smoker, please — otherwise open-minded! | Ready |
| Guide Attendee Cass cass@example.com | 28 | Open to exploring | Not sure yet | – | Ready |
| A fifth attendee, mid-signup fifth@example.com | – | – | – | – | Incomplete |
Recommendations & suggested rounds
Once profiles are ready, Generate recommendations scores the eligible pool and builds Suggested rounds — described on-screen as “a derived rotation plan, not a live scheduling system”: highest-scored introductions land in the earliest round both people are free, and round count follows whoever has the most matches. A checkbox lets you include or exclude Growth Required pairs from the schedule. From here you can Download CSV or Print organizer list.
| Attendee | Recommended introduction | Alignment index | Occurred? |
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| Guide Attendee Aria | Guide Attendee Beau | 55% GROWTH REQUIRED Chemistry 21% Low Chemistry Compatibility 70% Good Compatibility Conscious Alignment 64% Good Conscious Alignment | Unknown ▾ |
| Guide Attendee Dree | Guide Attendee Cass | 53% GROWTH REQUIRED Chemistry 46% Moderate Chemistry Compatibility 63% Good Compatibility Conscious Alignment 50% Developing Conscious Alignment | Unknown ▾ |
| Guide Attendee Dree | Guide Attendee Beau | 52% GROWTH REQUIRED Chemistry 42% Moderate Chemistry Compatibility 71% Strong Compatibility Conscious Alignment 43% Developing Conscious Alignment | Unknown ▾ |
Under each Alignment Index you see the three layers it's built from — Chemistry, Compatibility and Conscious Alignment — each with its score and approved band title, followed by a short paragraph explaining the result. For Aria and Beau, the dashboard shows:
“The LACE™ Alignment Index places this relationship within Growth Required. The result highlights several dynamics that deserve careful exploration before the relationship is understood as a whole. Compatibility is the highest layer, indicating meaningful support for how the relationship may function across ordinary decisions, communication, and shared routines. Chemistry is the lowest layer and invites careful exploration of when attraction becomes available, how it is communicated, and whether either person experiences pressure around the spark.”
That paragraph uses the same approved wording as the full LACE compatibility report — never just a bare number. Recommendations generated before this was added show only the Alignment Index description; select Generate recommendations again to see the layers. Pairs you've already marked as occurred or excluded keep their existing record.
Round 1
Guide Attendee Aria + Guide Attendee Beau — Priority 3
Guide Attendee Dree + Guide Attendee Cass — Priority 3
Round 2
Guide Attendee Dree + Guide Attendee Beau — Priority 3
Notice Dree appears twice — she was open to everyone, so she scored eligible options against both other women and the one remaining man once mutual family-plans and intention filters were applied. That's the algorithm working as intended, not a bug: someone with broader stated openness naturally surfaces more eligible introductions.
Closing the loop
Mark event completeOnce introductions have happened, mark the event complete to unlock the post-event survey.
Send surveySend survey reaches every attendee whose introduction was confirmed, asking if they'd like to keep exploring — LACE's own outcome data, not something you have to chase down yourself.
Review outcomesThe results panel is scoped entirely to this event: response rate, yes/maybe counts, and mutual yeses — never visible to any other organizer, even for the same attendee.
What happens after a mutual yes
A mutual yes in your results table doesn't generate anything automatically — it triggers a separate, consent-gated invitation to each attendee, on their own private page. Both people see the same explanation before deciding:
- This report is about you and your connection — you both showed interest in each other after the event.
- It uses the birth charts you already have on file — nothing new to enter.
- Both of you must consent before anything can be generated.
- Either of you may purchase the one shared report.
- Once purchased, both of you get access to it.
- The event organizer can never see this report's contents.
Once both consent, either attendee can purchase the shared Connection Report for $19. Your Post-event results table's Report Opportunity column tracks its progress — Detected → Invited → Awaiting consent → Ready for purchase (or Revoked) — same privacy principle as everywhere else in this product: you see the status, never the report itself.
The attendee experience
Knowing exactly what your attendees see makes it much easier to answer their questions. Here's the full path from your signup link to “you're in.”
The “essential preference or boundary” field
The last field on the Preferences step is a free-text box, labeled Essential preference or boundary (optional) — it's the one place an attendee writes in their own words instead of picking from the structured options above it.
“Non-smoker, please — otherwise open-minded!”
What it's for, and what it isn't:
- It's for the one thing the structured pills above it don't capture — a dealbreaker or must-have specific enough that it wouldn't fit a checkbox (a substance preference, a lifestyle need, a scheduling constraint).
- It surfaces directly in your Curated profile readiness table, under Boundary / notes — so it's visible to you the organizer at a glance, not just buried in a report.
- It's optional and unstructured by design: unlike the pill fields (gender, intention, family plans), this text doesn't feed the matching algorithm's scoring — it's context for you to weigh, not a filter LACE applies automatically.
The completion email
The instant an attendee finishes Step 3, LACE sends them a confirmation email — this is the email they'll actually use later to get back into their registration, so it's worth knowing exactly what it says:
Your LACE™ registration for {event name} is complete
You've completed your LACE™ curated registration for {event name}. Thank you for taking the time to share what matters to you in a connection.
Your event details — date/time and location, when known.
Your organizer will share the details of any planned introductions.
Manage my registration
Use this button to view your registration, update your preferences while registration is open, or withdraw from the curated pool. You may be asked to verify your email to access your details securely.
LACE supports curated introductions alongside your organizer’s event. If your event requires a ticket, your ticket and admission remain managed through the organizer’s ticketing process. Completing your LACE registration does not guarantee an introduction or match.
Plus a line with your support contact, when you have one on file.
This is the same manage_url link that powers the “Manage my registration” flow described below — so if an attendee says they can't find it, this email is the first place to point them.
If an attendee says they're stuck submitting
The form validates inline with specific, real messages — knowing them means you can diagnose over text instead of guessing:
Two different “I want out” actions — don't conflate them
Attendees have two separate exit actions available, and they mean very different things — worth knowing so you can tell them apart if someone brings one up:
In short: withdrawing removes them from this event's matching; deleting their profile is about their data, not this event — an attendee wanting one almost certainly doesn't also want the other, so it's worth asking which they actually mean.
If they lose access
The “Manage my registration” link alone doesn't grant access — it's paired with a browser session set at verification. If that session is gone (a new device, a cleared browser), the attendee lands on a “Let's get you back in” screen: they re-enter their email, and LACE sends a short-lived recovery link that restores their existing registration exactly where they left off — no re-entering their name or starting over.
FAQ & troubleshooting
Real issues we've root-caused, so you can answer attendees with confidence instead of guessing.
The sending domain used for these emails needed a warm-up period — a normal step for any new sending domain, where mailbox providers gradually build trust with it. Until that trust builds, first-time sends to some inboxes get delayed or deferred rather than lost.
Warm-up is underway and improves over roughly 2–4 weeks. In the meantime, the signup page copy already sets expectations: it can take a few minutes, check spam, and Resend verification email works immediately as a reliable fallback.
Two secondary things to check next, in order: delivery-queue latency for brand-new contacts, and timing between the inbound signup and the contact being created downstream. Both are edge-case delays, not failures — the resend button remains the fastest fix for an individual attendee in the moment.
The link alone was never meant to grant access on its own — it works together with the browser session created when they verified. Reassure them: clicking it fresh in the same browser they used to verify will work. If that browser or session is gone, point them to the recovery flow above.
There isn't one — organizer password resets are admin-only, not self-serve. Contact your LACE admin and ask them to reset it from the Events Admin panel; they'll hand you a new temporary password directly (LACE never emails a reset link for this).
The completion email is a separately-activated delivery channel from the verification email — check with LACE before promising an attendee this arrived automatically. If real delivery isn't active yet for your event, an organizer can still confirm registration status directly from the Curated profile readiness table and share the manage link manually.
No — that's intentional. You see what's needed to run the event: each attendee's name, email, age, relationship intention, family plans and boundary note, their readiness status, suggested introductions, and survey responses. Birth data and chart details stay private to LACE's matching engine, and gender identity and relationship-configuration answers aren't shown to organizers either.