Whether you're organizing events, leading communities, or seeking knowledge, Catalist is designed to support your specific needs.
For Event Organizers
Don't let your event's value disappear when it ends - keep the engagement, connections, and revenue flowing long after the last attendee leaves.
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Transform one-time events into lasting knowledge communities with monetizable post-event content
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Monetize flexibly with multiple ticket tiers, donations, and customizable discount options
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Enable meaningful connections through custom profiles and interest-based matchmaking
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Empower speakers with personalized promotion pages that track referral sales
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Streamline setup with templates, speaker self-management tools, and integrations
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Maintain full ownership of your event data with flexible privacy controls
The Journey of a Conference Experience
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Planning
Organizer builds an event hub with speaker profiles, interactive agenda, and resource library
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Engagement
During the event, attendees contribute questions, insights, and connections to the knowledge hub
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Extension
Post-event content is curated into a premium knowledge collection with additional resources
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Monetization
Organizer offers tiered access to event insights, sparking ongoing revenue beyond the event date
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Community
A vibrant year-round community forms around the event's knowledge hub, building anticipation for next year
For Event Attendees
Never lose valuable insights from events again - organize your insights, build meaningful connections, and easily access content when you need it most.
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Quickly find and resurface important information from past events when you actually need it
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Get suggested matches for people, content, and opportunities based on your interests
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Build personalized agendas and track events you want to attend in your dashboard
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Provide feedback and engage with event content through live polls before, during, and after sessions
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Collect and organize insights from multiple events in one personal knowledge library
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Capture actionable notes and track follow-ups for any speaker, talk, or session
The Journey of Professional Growth
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Discovery
Attendee finds a breakthrough idea during a conference session and saves it to their personal library
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Organization
They annotate the content with personal notes and action items, connecting it to previous learnings
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Application
They implement the idea in their work, tracking progress through their personalized dashboard
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Connection
They connect with others interested in similar concepts, forming valuable professional relationships
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Contribution
They share their implementation experience back to the community, enhancing collective knowledge
For Researchers
Stop research from becoming siloed and forgotten - discover unexpected connections and build an environment where others can discover and build upon your work.
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Discover unexpected connections between your work and related research you'd otherwise miss
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Maintain both private research notes and public contributions in one integrated workspace
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Share your findings in beautiful, interactive formats and track audience engagement
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Connect with communities and practitioners ready to apply your research in different contexts
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Create hierarchical or relationship-based visualizations of concepts, papers, and findings
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Quickly populate your research space through flexible imports from Miro, Airtable, and more
The Journey of an Emerging Insight
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Exploration
Researcher discovers related work across disciplines through Catalist's connection suggestions
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Documentation
They organize findings in a structured workspace that links to original sources and related concepts
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Visualization
They create relationship maps showing connections between different research streams
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Collaboration
They selectively share portions of their research with colleagues for feedback and expansion
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Publication
Their findings are published in interactive formats that allow readers to explore underlying data
For Ecosystem Mappers
Eliminate the tedious transition of data between tools - visualize relationships in multiple ways with all the different views and interactions you need in one place.
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Visualize complex connections between organizations, resources, and individuals
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Enable collaborative data collection from multiple sources with tracked contributions
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View the same ecosystem data in multiple formats from maps to networks to calendars
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Quickly import and reference data from other ecosystem maps and external tools
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Create custom fields and views with powerful filtering for any type of data
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Identify gaps and opportunities while making ecosystem intelligence actionable
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Take notes and track action items directly within the map without switching tools
The Journey of System Understanding
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Data Collection
Mapper gathers stakeholder information from multiple sources into a centralized database
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Structuring
They create custom fields and relationships to accurately represent complex system dynamics
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Visualization
The same data is viewed through different lenses—maps, networks, lists—revealing new patterns
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Analysis
Interactive filtering and sorting helps identify gaps, opportunities, and potential collaborations
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Activation
Stakeholders use the intelligence to coordinate action, tracking progress directly within the map