Private beta / luxury planners / warm referral only

Arden

The proposal brain for luxury private-event planners.

Arden turns briefs, vendor replies, budgets, brand standards, and past work into client-ready proposals with defensible numbers and a visual standard worthy of the event you are trying to win.

Built for planners selling complex events at the high end: private weddings, milestone celebrations, galas, brand experiences, and destination weekends where every proposal has financial, creative, and operational consequences.

Request a private pilot

First cohort by founder referral

30+ hrs

Typical proposal cycle Arden is built to compress

$250K+

Production-budget tier where the first wedge is focused

Private

Planner memory, vendor rates, brand standards, and client links

The work Arden replaces

The expensive part is not typing. It is stitching judgment across the whole proposal.

Vendor replies

Quotes arrive in four formats and none of them match.

Email body, PDF, workbook, portal screenshot. Arden preserves the source trail and turns the mess into reviewable proposal lines.

Financials

Margin, contingency, tax, and currency become a second job.

The spreadsheet grows around every exception. Arden keeps the planner in judgment mode instead of reconciliation mode.

Presentation

A luxury proposal cannot look like software output.

Generic CRMs, proposal tools, and deck generators read too cheap for the client you are trying to win.

Memory

Every lost proposal starts the next one from zero.

Vendor rates, visual references, commission policies, and event patterns should compound with each event, not disappear into old folders.

What Arden gives back

Less rebuilding. More deciding.

01
A proposal draft built from real sources.
Drop in the brief, vendor replies, budgets, design references, and past work. Arden organizes the event packet around the proposal you need to send.
02
Financials a planner can defend.
Every client-facing number is grounded in a source, reviewed before it leaves the studio, and shaped by your margin, contingency, tax, and commission posture.
03
A visual story that still feels bespoke.
Brand libraries, moodboards, image slots, and luxury typography keep the proposal closer to a private pitch deck than a SaaS export.
04
Client-ready choices, not one frozen option.
Compare venues, dates, tiers, and scenarios in one event workspace so the client can choose without you rebuilding the proposal by hand.
05
A private decision loop.
Passcoded share links, client replies, and selected-option tracking keep the conversation controlled until one proposal path becomes real.

A private workspace for one event

From proposal to run-of-show without losing context.

Arden is not trying to replace your taste. It keeps the source material, financial reasoning, visual direction, client decision, and delivery packet in one place so your taste can move faster.

Source memory

Event packet

Client brief

Organized

Venue quote

Grounded

Budget sheet

Reviewed

Moodboard

Referenced

Client choice

Proposal options

Estate weekend

$392K

City house

$418K

Lake buyout

$515K

Selected path

Ready

Compounding value

Studio memory

Vendor rates

Saved

Commission policy

Applied

Brand system

Loaded

Run-of-show

Drafted

Why planners trust it

Built around luxury workflow, not generic CRM habits.

Output

Luxury-grade by default.

Spacing, typography, image treatment, and client-visible copy are part of the product, not a cosmetic pass at the end.

Control

Planner judgment stays in charge.

Arden drafts, organizes, and compares. You approve the numbers, the language, and the version that goes to the client.

Boundary

Private work stays private.

Client pages are designed to exclude internal margins, provider details, private file paths, and audit-only fields.

First cohort

Bring one real proposal. Leave with a sharper operating memory.

Arden is onboarding through warm-network pilots first. The right first event is current, high-value, source-heavy, and worth judging against the proposal you would have built by hand.