From an invite in your inbox to a team you would rejoin
Albrat runs alongside the programme, not on top of it. Four stages, from kickoff to demo day, each one deliberately small. Here is what actually happens, in order.
Two ways in
Organiser invite
The programme uploads its cohort list and Albrat emails everyone a personal link. You land straight in profile creation, with no event code to type and no account to hunt for.
QR code at the venue
Printed on badges, banners and the welcome deck. Scanning it does the same job as an invite, which matters for walk-ins, late registrations and anyone whose invite went to spam.
- 1Before the competition
You build a profile, not a CV
Join through an organiser invite or by scanning the QR code at the venue, then tell us what you can do and how you work.
Everything starts weeks before anyone shakes hands. You land in Albrat one of two ways: an invite emailed by the programme organiser, or a QR code printed on your badge, the venue banners or the welcome deck. From there you create your profile: photo, a one-line intro, your skills, and the 20-question Mini-IPIP personality test that powers the compatibility side of matching.
- Entry path A: an invite sent by the event organiser
- Entry path B: scanning a QR code at the venue or in the welcome pack
- Profile first: photo, intro, skills, then the personality test
- Nothing else happens until event day. No pressure, no feed to scroll
- 2During team formation
Check in and meet your shortlist
You scan in at the door and Albrat surfaces the handful of people you are most compatible with, with a chatroom already open.
On day one you scan your QR code at registration. That check-in is what unlocks the event inside the app: only people who are actually in the room can appear in your matches. Albrat then shows you a short list of the people whose skills and personality profile fit yours best, sized at 5% of the attendees and never fewer than three, and opens a chatroom with each of them so the first message is not the hardest part.
- QR check-in unlocks the event and its attendee pool
- Shortlist size = 5% of attendees, minimum 3 people
- Every match comes with a plain-language reason, not a black-box score
- A chatroom opens automatically with each suggested person
- 3During the competition
Short pulse check-ins keep teams honest
Regular, 30-second feedback prompts track how collaboration is actually going while there is still time to fix it.
Once teams are formed, Albrat sends short pulse surveys at a handful of moments across the programme. Three or four questions, half a minute, no essays. Participants see how their own team is trending; organisers see aggregate signals across the cohort and can send a mentor in before a team quietly falls apart in week two.
- Pulse surveys at fixed checkpoints through the programme
- Private to the team; organisers only see aggregate patterns
- Early warning when workload or communication is lopsided
- Feeds the matching model for the next edition
- 4After the competition
Your track record follows you
Points from feedback, connections and participation build a credibility score you carry into the next cohort.
When the programme ends your profile is worth more than it was. Feedback given and received, connections made and events attended all roll into points and a visible credibility score. The next time you show up at an accelerator, a hackathon or a demo day, that history travels with you and makes you a more legible teammate to everyone else.
- Points for feedback given and received
- Points for connections made and kept
- A credibility score visible on your public profile
- History carries across every event you attend
Five percent of the room, never fewer than three
A networking app that hands you four hundred profiles has handed you nothing.Albrat scales the shortlist to the size of the cohort and puts a hard floor under it, so a twenty-person workshop still gives you 3 people worth talking to and a large academy batch does not drown you.
Each suggested person arrives with an open chatroom and a written explanation of the match: shared skills, complementary skills, and the personality dimensions behind the score.
| People checked in | Your shortlist |
|---|---|
| 40 | 3 people |
| 120 | 6 people |
| 300 | 15 people |
| 800 | 40 people |
See the flow with your own answers.
The demo runs entirely in your browser: build a profile, take the Mini-IPIP test, and look at a sample shortlist with the reasoning behind every match.