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A venue operating system, live tonight.

A venue running separate tools is running separate versions of the same night. The floor plan is a drawing. Tickets sell somewhere else. The guestlist is a spreadsheet or a text thread. The bar runs on a POS that has never heard of the table. Marketing is a separate address book.

Client
Fennec, fennecapp.com (co-founded)
Sector
Premium nightlife and events
Status
Live
What we built
A venue operating system: floor plans, live ops, ticketing, guest CRM, bottle service, inventory, campaigns and analytics, with the Ferry AI agent network underneath
Integrations
Two-way POS sync with Square, Toast and Lightspeed
Venues
Harbour Event Centre, TradeX, The Pit UBC, The Show Ottawa, Twins Nightclub, plus 20+ event companies
Architecture
Core and Ferry AI network architected by Vishal Desh, Co-Founder

01 · Context

A venue does not need five tools. It needs one record of the night.

Fennec is an operating system, not a feature. It runs the floor, the door, the bar, the bottles, the coat check, the guest record, the campaigns and the count in the stock room, off one set of records that every surface reads at the same time.

02 · The old way

What a disconnected stack looks like on a Saturday.

A venue running separate tools is running separate versions of the same night. Each one is right about its own slice and wrong about everything else, and the reconciliation happens in a group chat at 11pm.

The floor plan is a drawing that cannot tell anyone which table is still free. Tickets sell on a third-party page that knows the guest bought and nothing about where they will sit. The guestlist is a spreadsheet or a text thread, stale by midnight. The bar runs on a POS that has never heard of the table. Marketing is a separate address book.

03 · Bottleneck

Availability lived in a thread between a promoter, a host and an owner.

Every one of them held a slightly different version of it. The same table could be sold twice. Somebody had to phone the office to ask whether T3 was gone.

04 · Why off-the-shelf did not fit

Five products, five records.

Each tool was right about its own slice. None of them could be the record of the night, because none of them knew about the others. An agent cannot tell you what is leaking if the numbers are sitting in five accounts that never speak.

Fennec · Live

One system running the room, the door and the bar.

A venue does not need five tools. It needs one record of the night. Fennec is the operating system we co-founded and still build: floor plans, live ops, ticketing, guest CRM, bottle service, inventory, campaigns and analytics, off one set of records that every surface reads at the same time.

Not an automation. A full operating system, in production tonight.

Live at Harbour Event Centre, TradeX, The Pit UBC, The Show Ottawa, Twins Nightclub, with 20+ event companies publishing on the network. Two-way POS sync with Square, Toast and Lightspeed.

Read the Fennec study

05 · The build

The event, the table, the tab and the guest are single records.

The guest picks the table over a photograph of the real room. Seat counts sit on each table, the bar and the backstage table are marked, and a legend says what is available, requested, booked, unavailable and selected.

The operator half is the floor plan editor. Every table carries a label, a section, a capacity, a table fee, a shape, a VIP flag and its own generated QR code. Layouts are versioned, so a Friday room and a Saturday room are two saved states. Activating a layout is what publishes the map the guest picks from, which is why the two screens can never disagree.

The public event page is generated from the event the operator built. The discover feed puts it in front of guests who came for a different room.

Real screens · from the live product · guest details blurred at source

Every shot here is a real capture of a live product.

  • Fennec · live product
    The operator dashboard with Ferry open beside it: door count, tables, bar sales and pace, read off the same records the floor is writing. Captured on a demo venue, so every figure on it is sample data.
    Fig. 01 · The operator dashboard with Ferry open beside it: door count, tables, bar sales and pace, read off the same records the floor is writing. Captured on a demo venue, so every figure on it is sample data.
  • Fennec · live product
    Guest-facing table selection over a photograph of the real room. Tables carry seat counts; the legend shows available, requested, booked, unavailable and selected. Guest details blurred at source.
    Fig. 02 · Guest-facing table selection over a photograph of the real room. Tables carry seat counts; the legend shows available, requested, booked, unavailable and selected. Guest details blurred at source.
  • Fennec · live product
    Operator floor plan editor. Every table carries a label, section, capacity, fee, shape, VIP flag and its own QR code. Activating a layout publishes the map the guest picks from, which is why the two screens can never disagree.
    Fig. 03 · Operator floor plan editor. Every table carries a label, section, capacity, fee, shape, VIP flag and its own QR code. Activating a layout publishes the map the guest picks from, which is why the two screens can never disagree.

06 · AI and automation

Ferry AI is a roster, not a chat.

A coordinated agent network across operations, guests, campaigns, inventory and service, plus a Revenue Copilot that reads voids, pricing, promoters and inventory. Each agent owns one part of the operation and reads the same record as every other surface.

07 · Human role

A guest request is a request, not a booking.

The host works the same map and confirms where the party actually lands, which is how a venue keeps control of its best tables without making a guest guess at a seating chart.

08 · Result

Five named venues. More than twenty event companies. In production tonight.

Every venue on the network runs its own nights, its own promoters and its own bar. They share one system, which is why an event published in one room shows up in a feed that guests of the others already use. No hours-saved or revenue figure is claimed for Fennec on this site.

09 · What came next

The same architecture, now on the Uniserve build.

Fennec is where our own architecture came from. Vishal built the core of it and the Ferry agent network, and that is the same pair of hands on the Uniserve engagement.

The network · live venues running on Fennec tonight

  • Harbour Event Centre
  • TradeX
  • The Pit UBC
  • The Show Ottawa
  • Twins Nightclub
  • 20+ event companies

Demo · 16s · no sound

A short pass through the product.

Screen capture of the live product. Figures shown inside the recording belong to a demo venue and are not claimed as results.

Fennec, short demo

Source of every statement on this page · exdsconsulting.com/work-fennec · verified 2026-09-16

Free · 30 minutes · a founder answers

Your business does not need five tools either.

Tell us the workflow that runs through a group chat at 11pm. We map where it leaks and say plainly whether it is worth building.

Two founders on the call. Nothing to prepare, and you keep the map either way.