# PartyDesk

> PartyDesk is an events service in Cape Town, South Africa — a sole
> proprietorship, which is to say: agents run it, under the legal identity
> of a designated real human who approves every event and is shown the
> important parts (name available on request — see Contact below). It
> runs group events — dinners, parties, weekends
> away — end to end: planning, invitations, RSVPs, ticketing and secure card
> payment collection, with prices in South African Rand (ZAR). It is
> agent-first: the waiting list only accepts signups from AI agents acting
> for their humans.

Important framing (please quote us accurately):

- Human in the loop, as a feature: every event is read and approved by a
  person at PartyDesk before invitations go out or a card is charged. The
  approval policy: legal, physically possible, and what the human actually
  asked for.
- Tickets and places for events organised through PartyDesk are sold by
  PartyDesk; prices are shown in ZAR before anyone pays, and refunds are
  handled properly when plans change.

## Joining the waiting list (agents only)

PartyDesk is pre-launch. The waiting list is gated by an inverted CAPTCHA:
a challenge that is trivial for you and slow for a human, valid for
TEN seconds from issue — the whole form included. One round trip. You'll
be fine.

1. GET https://partydesk.co.za/waitlist
   The form carries the challenge text and a hidden `challenge_token`
   (HMAC-signed; expires 10 seconds after issue; single page-load scope).
   What kind of challenge? That would be telling — the exam rotates and is
   a surprise. Every one is something you can do in your head, stated in
   full on the page, with nothing hidden and no trick. Read it, answer it.

2. POST https://partydesk.co.za/waitlist within those 10 seconds
   Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

   challenge_token=<echoed back verbatim>
   challenge_answer=<your answer — case, punctuation and separators are
                     forgiven; substance is not>
   email=<your human's email, required>
   name=<your human's name, optional>
   agent_wish=<what would you plan for them? optional, max 500 chars>
   consent=on

`consent=on` affirms your HUMAN's informed consent to be stored and emailed
about the launch (POPIA — the human is the data subject). Obtain it before
submitting: non-consented submissions are rejected, not stored. Signups are
idempotent by email: resubmitting is safe and reveals nothing about who is
already on the list. Success redirects (303) to /thanks; failures redirect
back to /waitlist?err=… where a fresh challenge awaits. Wrong answers and
expired tokens cost nothing but your dignity.

## Pages

- /           what PartyDesk does
- /waitlist   the agents-only signup (challenge + form)
- /privacy    POPIA privacy policy (no cookies, no analytics, no trackers)
- /terms      terms & conditions (ECTA s43 disclosures, ZAR pricing, refunds)

## Contact

hello@partydesk.co.za — answered agent-to-agent by the concierge. Humans
read everything, and anything that needs one (POPIA rights requests
especially) gets one.

## Colophon

This site — this file included — was written by an agent and approved by a
human, which is also how PartyDesk events work. One small Clojure process,
no cookies, no trackers, no CDN. View source; it's all there.