For trade show organizers · How it works

Trade show matchmaking

From buyer list to ranked shortlists, in five steps.

AccessMe gives each buyer at your show a twin that interviews exhibitors on the buyer's behalf and scores each one against that buyer's own criteria. Here is what you, your buyers and your exhibitors each do, and how the scoring works.

How it works

Set it up once. Twins do the screening.

Buyers set up in the weeks before the show. Exhibitors talk with buyer twins at any hour, and each buyer opens a shortlist that is already ranked.

1

Set up your show

Create a Campaign with your show's name, logo, dates and shared material.

2

Invite buyers in bulk

Upload a list of names and emails. Each buyer is invited in your show's name, with automatic reminders.

3

Buyers set their criteria

Each twin starts from your template. The buyer chooses how it judges exhibitors and approves it.

4

Exhibitors make their case

Exhibitors chat with the buyer twins they want to reach. Each conversation is scored.

5

Buyers get a shortlist

A ranked list shows each exhibitor's score, the reasoning and what the exhibitor said.

Buyer onboarding

Three ways a buyer can tell their twin what to look for.

Nobody starts from a blank page. You choose which options to offer, and each buyer picks one.

Option 1

Use the show's criteria

You define a standard scorecard once, and you can lock the criteria every buyer must keep. A buyer accepts it as written or adjusts the weights first.

The fastest route, and it keeps judging consistent across the show.

Option 2

Upload their own criteria

The buyer uploads a buying guide, strategy or plan. AccessMe drafts criteria from it, each shown with the passage it came from, and the twin can draw on the document in conversation.

For buyers whose requirements are already on paper.

Option 3

Be interviewed

The buyer answers a few short questions on categories, price range, minimum requirements, deal-breakers and the ideal partner. AccessMe turns the answers into criteria. You can supply the questions.

For buyers who have never written it down.

Whichever option they pick, the buyer signs off. Each buyer reviews the criteria, adjusts the weights, flags deal-breakers and approves before the twin goes live.

The scoring system

A scorecard each buyer owns.

Every buyer twin judges exhibitors against a short list of criteria. The buyer decides what is on the list, how much each item counts, and which ones an exhibitor has to meet.

  • Criteria — what the buyer is looking for, in plain words: category, price range, traction, production readiness, the ideal partner.
  • Weights — how much each criterion counts toward the score. Buyers can adjust them.
  • Deal-breakers — the minimum requirements a buyer will not move on.
  • Locked criteria — you can lock the criteria every buyer in your show must keep, so judging stays consistent.
Every conversation is scored

A score with its reasons attached.

The twin asks each exhibitor what the buyer would ask, then scores the conversation against the buyer's criteria. Nothing is a black box: the buyer sees the score, the reasoning, and the exhibitor's own words as evidence.

  • The score — how well this exhibitor fits this buyer.
  • The reasoning — why the exhibitor scored as it did, criterion by criterion.
  • The evidence — what the exhibitor actually said in the conversation.
  • The correction — a buyer who disagrees can correct any score.
The shortlist

Buyers arrive knowing who to meet.

Each buyer opens one ranked list of the exhibitors that talked with their twin, best fit first. They work through it before the show and walk onto the floor with a plan.

  • Ranked by fit — the strongest matches for this buyer rise to the top.
  • Tracked — buyers mark each exhibitor as shortlisted, contacted, accepted or rejected.
  • Their call — the twin screens and ranks. The buyer decides who to meet.
  • For you — one leaderboard across every buyer twin in the show.
For your exhibitors

A first meeting with the buyers they came for.

Exhibitors pick the buyer twins they want to reach and make their case in a conversation, not on a form.

On their own schedule

A buyer's twin is available at any hour in the weeks before the show, so an exhibitor in any time zone gets a real first conversation.

In their own language

Exhibitors learn what each buyer is looking for in their own language, including English, French and Portuguese.

The same hearing for every brand

Smaller and newer brands get the same hearing as the biggest booth. What counts is how well they fit what the buyer asked for.

Every twin is clearly labeled as an AI representation of the buyer, not the buyer in person. The twin is a front door to the buyer, not a substitute for them.

Organizer controls

Your show, your rules.

The program runs under your show's name, on your dates, with the people you registered.

Registered exhibitors only

Limit buyer twins to the exhibitors registered for your show.

Runs on your show dates

The program follows the dates you set for your show.

Buyer deadlines and reminders

Set a deadline for buyers to finish setup. Reminders go out automatically.

Onboarding tracking and export

Follow each buyer's progress through setup, and export the list.

Your logo on invitations

Buyers are invited in your show's name, with your logo.

Locked greeting and tone

Lock the greeting and tone, so every buyer twin represents your show the same way.

One show-wide leaderboard

See one leaderboard across every buyer twin in the show.

Your material stays yours

The material you share for your show remains yours.

See it with a sample buyer twin.

Talk to a demonstration buyer twin as an exhibitor would, then see the scored shortlist it produces.