Review and Choose Your Speakers (Pitchr)

Proposals land on a board with five statuses: Received, Under Review, Waitlisted, Accepted, and Declined. Move proposals between them as you triage, filter by track or format, and open any proposal to read the full abstract, bio, and custom answers.

For each proposal you can score it 1–10 — multiple reviewers can each score, and the board shows the average — and discuss it in a per-proposal comment thread with @mentions. With blind review on, submitter names and details are hidden so you're judging the idea, not the name.

You don't have to review everything yourself. Invite reviewers by email and each gets a scoped magic-link role — they score proposals without taking a team seat or seeing the rest of your workspace. Assign reviewers by track or by session type so people only see what they're qualified to weigh in on. Pitchr watches for patterns as they go:

• Disparity detection flags a proposal when reviewers disagree sharply, so a split decision never slips through as a quiet average.
• Conflict-of-interest self-declaration lets a reviewer flag a proposal they're too close to, and their score is set aside.
• Side-by-side compare puts two proposals next to each other so a committee can settle the close calls together.

When you Accept a proposal, Gythr automatically creates a draft speaker in Stage and a draft session in Agenda from the submitter's answers, both unpublished and ready for you to review. The submitter entered all that detail once, so you don't re-key it across two modules.

Not every proposal is a straight yes or no. You can request a change on a proposal and open a two-way conversation with the speaker, right from the pipeline. Ask them to tighten the abstract, shift the format, or trim the length, get their reply, and accept once it lands where you want it. The back and forth stays attached to the proposal so the whole committee can see how it got there.

Set acceptance goals per track and per format — for example six talks and two workshops on a given track. Pitchr tracks your progress against each target as you accept, so you can see at a glance where you're full and where you still have room before you close the pipeline.

• Comparison voting. Reviewers pick the stronger of two proposals, and Gythr turns those head-to-head votes into a ranked shortlist. Scoring and comparison are both always available.
• AI abstract summaries. A one-line summary on each proposal so reviewers move faster.
• Emerging themes. Gythr clusters your submissions with AI to surface the themes actually forming, matches them to your defined themes, flags new ones, and lets you promote a cluster into a theme in one click.
• Bulk email from the pipeline. Email everyone in a status at once: a branded decline or waitlist note, or a custom message, with a preview of the recipient count.
• One-click speaker confirmation. Accepted speakers confirm their spot from an email in a single tap, no login, then get a speaker portal, a branded speaker card, and ready-to-post social copy.