Medical Societies & Associations
Own your member app and keep content working all year long. For medical societies and associations, their members, meetings, and sponsors.
What a rented meeting app costs you
Your annual meeting creates your most valuable content and data. Clinicians, faculty and sponsors spend a few days in the same rooms. Then the meeting ends, and the app vendor keeps the data from it for the other 51 weeks.
You rebuild the app every year, and when the contract ends you own none of the check-ins, polls, ratings or credit claims from it.
An app you own keeps going after the meeting. Members come back to it between meetings, and what they do there stays in your accounts.
Every meeting feeds one app you own.
- CME credit claimed in the app
- Sponsor results all year
What we fix
Renting the app is one problem. Most societies face three more problems.
- Sponsors with only three days of proof. They fund a year and see a report from one meeting, which makes every renewal a harder conversation.
- Feedback from very few voices. Surveys go out after everyone leaves, and long typed forms rarely get finished, so only a handful of members, attendees and faculty respond.
- Expertise gets lost in folders. Session recordings, slides and course catalogs sit in separate systems, so most of it is seen once, in the room. Search built with our AI agents and automation work lets members find it between meetings.
What changes when you own the app
The app becomes the place members go all year. During the meeting it carries the agenda, faculty, posters and polls. Between meetings it carries recordings, courses and CME credit, and each meeting adds to the same member record.
Sponsors get 52 weeks of results to pay for, up from three days, so the renewal conversation starts from a year of numbers.
The member data is yours. You can see who comes back and what they study, and build new courses and programs from it.
If you also run accredited courses, our page for CME and med-ed providers covers review and credit.
Dermsquared moved to an app it owns
Dermsquared brings dermatology professionals together through conferences and education. Its meetings used to run on a conference app rented year by year. Since September, members have used an app Dermsquared owns, all year round, and the code and data are Dermsquared's.
Its support tickets are down 80%, and more than 2,400 attendees use the app at each conference. The Dermsquared case study has the details.
They didn’t just build what we asked for. They understood what we were trying to accomplish and helped us get there.
What societies ask us
We're under contract with our app vendor.
That's fine. We start beside it, hearing from your members and getting your data ready, so the new app can launch when the contract ends. App vendors are usually signed about nine months before a meeting, so plan well ahead of the renewal.
We're too small for a custom app.
Dermsquared was your size when we started. We begin with three weeks of planning at a fixed price, and what you pay counts toward the build if you go ahead within 30 days. You'll know what the first release costs before you commit.
Why not stay on an event app platform?
An event platform rents you the same app every year and keeps the platform. When the contract ends, you start again and the data stays with them. With us, the code and the member data sit in your accounts from the first day.
Who owns the member data?
You do. The member records, the code and the app store listings are in your society's name, so there's nothing to buy back if we stop working together.
We'd love to chat.
Bring what's slow, rented or stuck. You'll leave with what we'd build first and how long it takes.
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