Spreadsheets or Sleep?

We’ve never met an event planner who doesn’t use spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets for the master program.

Spreadsheets for tasks.

Spreadsheets for schedules.

Spreadsheets for speaker management.

Spreadsheets for vendor coordination.

They’re fast, familiar, and easy to set up.

But they’re also one of the biggest reasons event planners lose sleep.

Why?

Because every single event change, and there are always changes, means manually updating information across multiple documents, schedules, briefs, and systems.

It’s repetitive, time-consuming work that we do over and over again, usually at the exact moment there's already too much happening.

The Test

We asked a large group of event planners to estimate how long it would take to manage a common last-minute event change.

The Scenario

A speaker changes 2 days out from a conference.

The Task List

Updating:

• the website

• the event app

• schedules and run sheets

• speaker briefs

• vendor information

• MC notes

• internal team updates

The Result

The average estimate they came to?

2 hours and 20 minutes.

And that’s during one of the busiest stages of event delivery.

We managed the exact same changes inside Joi in under 3 minutes.

How Joi Restores Your Time

The reason Joi saves so much time is simple:

Everything stays in sync.

Your website, event app, speaker briefs, schedules, run sheets, and operational documents are all connected in one place.

So instead of manually updating the same information across multiple spreadsheets and documents…

You update the program ONCE—and everything else updates automatically.

Less duplication. Less chaos. More sleep.