Kill the
Excel.
Catalyst is the Conference OS built for universities: registrations, manual payments, double-blind review, badges, schedule, campaigns, analytics. All shipped as modules.
We were tired
of chaos.
The status quo is Google Forms for registration, email chains for abstracts, Excel sheets for payments, and a stressed-out professor typing names into templates at 2 AM.
It breaks at 500 attendees. It collapses at 2,500.
Catalyst replaces the pile with one deterministic system: a conference tenant, strict roles, and modules you enable when needed.
Built like a system,
not a patchwork.
The Registration Engine
Build complex forms in minutes. Collect categories, documents, confirmations, and sync everything to the dashboard instantly.
- Public form hosted per conference
- Custom fields + spam/duplicate protection
- File uploads (ID card / photo / proof)
- Exports: CSV, PDF, audit-friendly lists
Scientific Review Portal
A rigorous academic workflow: submissions, assignments, scoring, decisions, exports. Double-blind by default.
- Double-blind review mode (names hidden)
- Custom scoring criteria and required review counts
- Auto-assign reviewers by topic + workload balancing
- Batch decision emails and accepted abstract exports
Manual Payment Reconciliation
Because universities are complicated. Catalyst supports bank transfers, screenshots, cash-on-site, and sane approval flows.
- Upload proof of payment (receipt/screenshot)
- Finance dashboard to verify and approve
- Automated status updates across registrant lists
- Receipts + logs that survive audits
Badges, Check-in, Schedule, Certificates
Event day is chaos. Catalyst turns it into a sequence: badge gen, QR check-in, published schedule, clean exports, and certificates when you're ready.
- QR badge generation and verification
- Check-in scanner for staff
- Schedule builder: sessions, tracks, program export
- One-click certificate PDFs (module-ready)
From zero to live
in one flow.
Create a conference. Pick modules. Upload activation payment. Get approved in the Sixth Meridian. Then run registrations, abstracts, workshops, badges, schedule, and campaigns without leaving the OS.
The Sixth Meridian
A root console for approvals, suspensions, audits, and system health. It overrides everything, but every override is traceable.
Trust is a feature.
So we built it in.
Catalyst is conference-first. Every row is scoped to a conference. Access is enforced by policies, not UI assumptions.
OR has_sixth_meridian() )
WITH CHECK ( user_in_conference(conference_id)
OR has_sixth_meridian() )
Does it work?
Yes.
- Unlimited registrations
- Public landing + hosted forms
- Manual payment tracking
- Exports + audit trail
- Role-based team access
Questions you’ll ask
before trusting it.
Ready to run the cleanest conference your university has seen?
Start free. Add modules when the conference grows. Keep the chaos out.
“I built this because I had to.”
As a medical student organizing national-scale conferences, I watched brilliant people lose days to administrative grunt work.
Enterprise tools were too expensive. Google Forms was too chaotic. So I built a system that behaves like a system.
Catalyst is built with the precision of a surgeon and the empathy of a student who just wants things to work.