Introduction

Grouple is a B2B group booking lead generation platform connecting event planners with venues.

What is Grouple?

Grouple (grouple.pro) is a reverse-auction marketplace for group bookings. Customers submit a single enquiry, receive competing proposal bids from multiple venues, compare them side by side, and confirm their booking — all in one place.

Venues and merchants use Grouple to receive qualified leads, manage enquiries, generate AI-assisted proposals using Amazon Bedrock (Claude), maintain a digital sales library for proposal generation, track lead and booking analytics, manage property listings, and settle commissions.

Who Uses Grouple?

User Type	Description
Customers	Event planners or individuals looking to book a venue for a group event
Merchants	Venue owners or managers who list venues and respond to enquiries
Admin	Grouple team managing settlements, commissions, and platform operations

Core Platform Flow

Customer submits enquiry
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Grouple matches & broadcasts to relevant venues (DB trigger)
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Venues receive lead notification (Edge Function → Email)
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Merchant views RFQ and generates AI proposal (Bedrock Claude 4.6)
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Proposal sent to customer (Edge Function → Email)
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Customer compares proposals and confirms one
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Settlement auto-synced (DB trigger → commission_settlements)
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Confirmation emails sent to both parties (Edge Function)

Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Frontend	React + TypeScript (Vite) hosted on AWS Amplify
Backend API	Node.js on AWS ECS + EC2 (Auto Scaling)
Database	Supabase (PostgreSQL)
Auth	Supabase Auth (GoTrue / JWT)
Email	Supabase Edge Functions
AI Proposals	Amazon Bedrock (Claude 4.6)
PDF Extraction	Node.js Worker + Amazon Bedrock Claude 4.6
CDN / DNS	AWS CloudFront + Route 53
Container Registry	AWS ECR
Secrets	AWS Secrets Manager
Observability	CloudWatch + X-Ray