Comtev vs Naboo
Naboo is an AI event procurement platform for enterprises: a marketplace of venues and suppliers, sourcing agents and voice agents that call venues, booking and payment through the platform, spend control, and a human project manager on every brief. Comtev is the AI that does the legwork for an in-house event team: it keeps one living event document, sources and negotiates venues, vendors and attendee travel from the open market, chases stakeholders for decisions, and holds every booking behind a named approver, at £250 per event in pounds. Pick Naboo if you are buying governed event procurement for a large company. Pick Comtev if you are the team that plans the events and wants the work done without giving up the calls.
What each one actually does
| Feature | Comtev | Naboo |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI that does the legwork for an in-house event team: one living event document, agents that source and negotiate, stakeholder chasing, and a budget the team controls. | Enterprise AI event procurement marketplace and managed service. |
| Who it is for | In-house event teams, EAs, heads of events and operations at UK companies. | Procurement, finance and events functions at large enterprises (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, AXA and Danone are named customers). |
| How you start | Write one brief. Comtev fans out the sourcing and comes back with ranked options and real quotes. | Send a brief; Naboo's team and agents return marketplace options; a project manager coordinates. |
| Venue sourcing | Ranked venue shortlist from one brief, with capacity fit, decision axes and watch-outs. You pick; Comtev does the back-and-forth. | Vetted marketplace with per-person prices; sourcing agents search the web and voice agents call venues for quotes. |
| Vendor sourcing and negotiation | Reaches caterers, AV, transport and other suppliers over WhatsApp, SMS, email and voice call, in their language, negotiates for better rates and normalises quotes to all-in cost. | Catering, activities and transport through the marketplace; negotiation as part of the service. |
| Travel for attendees | Flights priced per named attendee from live fares, hotel room blocks compared and awarded. Nothing is charged until the named approver says yes. | Enterprise travel and events compliance; not a self-serve per-attendee pricing feature. |
| Stakeholder sign-off | Stakeholder register plus tracked asks (approval, question, content, date hold) sent over Slack and email. Comtev nudges, switches channel, re-addresses to a delegate and escalates. | Not offered. |
| Approvals before spend | Bookings, cancellations and outbound messages wait for a named approver with a spending ceiling. Decide in the app, on Slack, by push or by email. | Account-level policy compliance and spend control. |
| Living event document | The Event Document: what the event is and what still needs a decision. Items from the venue, vendor and travel boards land on it. Preview, try a scenario, circulate, put into the budget. | Not offered. |
| Automation | Automate: plain-sentence flows (when a guest replies, when a quote arrives, when a budget threshold is crossed) with approval before any step spends money. | Not offered as a self-serve feature. |
| Guest list | Collected over Slack and WhatsApp from colleagues, no app for contributors; RSVP messaging; check-in. | Attendee management as part of the enterprise offer. |
| Pricing | £250 per event, every planning tool included. Enterprise for year-round teams. No commission from venues or suppliers. | Enterprise contract; no public flat price. Naboo claims an average 15% saving on event budgets. |
| Scale and backing | UK startup. Honest about it. | $500M+ of events organised, 200 staff, six offices, $70M Series B in February 2026. |
Checked 2 September 2026. Claims about other products come from their own pages, linked under Sources below. Tell us if something has changed.
Where Naboo wins
Everything that comes from scale. A curated marketplace with prices you can see before you ask, a project manager who runs the suppliers, payments through one channel, compliance reporting across the whole company's event spend, and the backing to keep building. If the buyer is procurement and the goal is control over all event spend, Naboo is the more complete answer today.
Where Comtev wins
The work between the brief and the decision. Comtev is built around the fact that an event is a set of decisions waiting on people: the venue the CEO has to see, the budget finance has to approve, the headcount the department heads have to confirm. It keeps that in one living document, does the sourcing and negotiating underneath it, prices travel for the named attendees, and chases each decision until it is made. It is not a marketplace and takes no commission, so nothing in the shortlist is there because it pays to be. And it is £250 per event, in pounds, which a UK team can approve without a procurement cycle.
Using both
Some companies will run enterprise-wide event procurement through Naboo and still want their own team's AI for the planning and the chasing. Nothing in Comtev depends on where the venue is booked.
Questions buyers ask
Is Comtev a Naboo competitor?
They overlap on sourcing venues and suppliers with AI, and differ in shape. Naboo is an enterprise procurement marketplace with a managed service. Comtev is the AI that does the legwork for an in-house event team and keeps the decisions with the team: living event document, per-attendee travel, stakeholder chasing, approval gate, £250 per event.
Which is cheaper, Comtev or Naboo?
Comtev publishes its price: £250 per event, every planning tool included, no commission. Naboo sells enterprise contracts and does not publish a flat price; venue prices appear per person in its marketplace.
Does Comtev call venues like Naboo's voice agents?
Yes. Comtev reaches venues and suppliers over WhatsApp, SMS, email and voice call, in their language, and brings the replies back as normalised quotes.
Does Comtev replace our event team?
No. Comtev works for the team. It does the legwork (sourcing, negotiating, pricing travel, chasing stakeholders for decisions) and the team keeps every call. Nothing is booked or spent until a named person approves it.
See the legwork done on your next event.
Bring a real brief. We will show you the shortlist, the quotes, the travel and the Event Document, and you keep every decision. £250 per event, in pounds.