How I Built an AI Seating Chart Tool That Solves the Wedding Nightmare

Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hi! I'm Robert Millan, the founder of SeatLogic. We built an intelligent seating chart optimization tool specifically designed to take the headache out of event planning. Right now, we offer subscription plans ranging from $29 to $99 a month, and we recently crossed the 100+ user mark. We are a tiny team of two, and we launched in 2025 with less than $1,000 in upfront costs!

What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

The idea for SeatLogic came directly from my own living room. My fiancée was deep in the weeds of wedding planning, and I watched her spend hours agonizing over our seating chart. She was stressing over family dynamics, keeping certain people apart, balancing table sizes, and managing it all on a massive, chaotic spreadsheet. I figured there had to be a tool for this, so I Googled it. To my shock, there wasn't.

Every "seating chart tool" out there was just a drag-and-drop floor plan. Basically,