For event planners
Top Ten reasons to use SpeakerPacket as an event planner
Every reason below names the tool, the pain it solves, and how it works. Tap the (i) on any reason for the fuller explanation and the next step.
The headline first: checking a speaker here costs you nothing, and nobody can buy the record.
Checking a speaker costs you nothing.
Every other way to vet a speaker costs something: reference calls, favors from colleagues, a bureau’s time, or a leap of faith dressed up as due diligence.
What you get
A public record check that is free for anyone: no account, no card, no sales call, and no trial that converts into a subscription.
How it works
Open the check page, search a speaker by name or by record ID (it looks like SPV-XXXXXX), and read the standing in seconds. Check one speaker or fifty; the price does not change.
Cost: $0, forever, member or not.
Check any speaker in seconds.
A speaker’s bio, testimonials, and reel are assertions, and AI can now fabricate all three. Your event, and your name inside your organization, ride on claims nobody has checked.
What it is
SP Verified is the public record behind a speaker’s claims: engagements confirmed by the people and documents that prove them, held in one record anyone can check. Verification is authentication, never grading: a record confirms or it does not, with no scores and no tiers.
How it works
Open the record link the speaker or your bureau sends you, or look the speaker up on the check page. The answer takes seconds and needs no login.
Cost: free, for anyone, member or not.
A record AI cannot fake.
Generated reels, invented testimonials, and padded client lists are cheap now. The polish is exactly what makes them dangerous.
What it is
Every engagement on a verified record carries its confirmation trail: who or what confirmed it. A claim with no trail behind it is labeled listed, never verified, and the difference is printed on the record itself.
How it works
Use Tap to Verify at the bottom of any record and walk the trail yourself, engagement by engagement, before you sign anything.
Cost: free.
If it is revoked, you see that too.
A credential that can never be lost means nothing. You check a license before money moves for exactly this reason: the standing means something because it can change.
What it is
Standing on a verified record is binary and public: active or lapsed, the way a license lookup works. If a verification is revoked, the revocation shows on the same record everyone checked, not in a footnote nobody finds.
How it works
The standing is the first line of the record. Check it when you shortlist, and check it again before the contract is signed.
Cost: free.
One link with everything you need.
The chase: a bio from one email, a reel from another, fees on request, and the AV requirements surfacing for the first time at load-in.
What it is
The Speaker Packet: bio, sessions, video reels, fees, verified history, audio and video requirements, and travel, assembled in one link that is always current. The logistics live in the same place as the pitch, so nothing is discovered late.
How it works
The speaker or your bureau sends one link. What you open today is what is true today; there are no stale PDFs and no version roulette.
Cost: free to open, every time.
Fees in the open.
“Request pricing” can burn a week of email before you learn the speaker never fit the budget in the first place.
What it is
The Wiki Listing shows the speaker the way buyers see them: the verified record, the sessions, and the fees, on one neutral page. The fee sits with the facts, before the first call.
How it works
Open the listing from the speaker’s record or the directory. Budget fit is a fact you can check, not a negotiation you have to start.
Cost: free.
Compare three to five, apples to apples.
Five bureaus send five formats, and your committee ends up comparing PDFs instead of speakers.
What it is
The Speaker Proposal: your bureau assembles three to five speakers for your event on one page, in the same fields, side by side, so the comparison is apples to apples.
How it works
Ask your bureau for a Speaker Proposal. Every speaker’s record, sessions, and fees line up in the same order, and each record is one tap from its confirmation trail.
Cost: free.
Nobody buys their way up.
Directories drift toward pay to play: featured listings and boosted profiles, where featured quietly means paid, not right for your event.
The promise, in writing
Money on SpeakerPacket buys membership, tools, and speed. It never buys the verdict, visibility, placement, or order, for anyone, at any tier. That promise is published, and it is the same promise we make to bureaus and speakers.
How it works
Discovery is pull-based: you search and browse complete public records, neutrally ordered. What you see is what there is, not what someone paid to put in front of you.
Cost: free. The promise is the product.
Having a hard time deciding? A bureau connection may be your best path.
Two finalists, similar fees, and a committee split down the middle. This is the moment a good bureau earns its keep.
What it is
Bureaus shortlist speakers for a living. When the choice is close, hand the last mile to one: the negotiation, the contracting, and the day-of problems become their job, not yours.
How it works
Browse partner bureaus in a directory that lists every partner completely, with no paid order and no featured slots, and reach out to the one that fits your event. Nobody on the page paid to be seen first.
Where it stands
The public bureau directory is next in the build, modeled on Finding a Coach in Coach Connect. Today, any bureau can send you a Speaker Proposal to compare your finalists side by side.
Cost: free to browse. A bureau earns its commission from the booking, the way it always has.
Proof your committee can check too.
You found your speaker. Now you defend the pick in a room that has seen one PDF and a feeling.
What it is
The record is public, so your backup slide is the record itself. Anyone in the room can open the same link and re-check the same confirmation trail you checked.
How it works
Paste the record link into your deck or your approval email. If a claim gets questioned, the trail answers it live, in the meeting, not after it.
Cost: free.
Start with one check
You do not need an account, a subscription, or a sales call. Check one speaker, open one packet, and the system explains itself.