A senior engineering director at a Series-B fintech pinged their People Ops Slack on a Friday afternoon: the NCR-half of the Payments org needed an offsite the following Tuesday. 120 people. Walking distance from Connaught Place. The kind of brief that usually means three weeks of WhatsApp tag.
The brief, decoded
- Less than 7 working days to source, contract and pay.
- Need for two adjacent halls — single venues capped at 70 pax for the format.
- GST invoicing + ITC requirements for the company entity.
- Cabs back to Gurgaon for 120 engineers, post-9pm.
How Storybuk ran it
Shortlist in 4 hours
Six venues surfaced from the Storybuk verified Delhi NCR inventory — three in Greater Kailash, two in Connaught Place, one in Aerocity. Live capacity, live pricing, photos shot the same season.
Two adjacent venues, one contract
Two Gold-tier halls within 300m of each other. Storybuk drafted a combined SOW with a single PO, two venue payouts in the back-end.
Escrow + GST
50% to Storybuk escrow on Friday. Finance got a single GST invoice ITC-eligible against the offsite cost centre. Balance released two working days after the event.
Cabs for the way home
Bundled cab vouchers for the 120 attendees — geo-fenced drop zones into Gurgaon and South Delhi. One CSV upload from the People Ops dashboard.
“Three weeks of work compressed into a Friday afternoon. The shortlist landed in my inbox before I'd finished writing the brief.”
The outcome
Illustrative scenario.Brand attribution anonymised by industry and stage; quotes attributed to role. Figures are model estimates based on briefs we've quoted — not booked-and-billed totals. Replaced with named, signed case studies as customers go public.