You do not need to learn the Designer to make a chart. Describe the venue in plain words: how many seats, the layout, the ticket types and their prices, where the bar and exits are. An AI writes that down as a Venue Spec, a short JSON file, and SeatLayer places every seat, table and booth. You get a normal chart that you can change, preview in 3D and publish.
Pick a route
| Route | What you need | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Any chat AI | Nothing. The free demo Designer works without an account | A few minutes |
| 2. Claude or ChatGPT connected to SeatLayer | A SeatLayer account and a one-time connector setup | A few minutes after the setup |
| 3. Copilot in the Designer | A SeatLayer account | A few minutes |
Most of the time goes into writing the description. The build itself is one step in every route.
1. Any chat AI
Works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other chat AI, with no connection to SeatLayer.
Open the Designer
Use the free demo at app.seatlayer.io/demo/designer, which needs no account, or open a chart in the Designer in your dashboard.
Open the AI dialog
Choose New from → Paste from an AI….
Copy the prompt
Choose Copy prompt for your AI.
Ask your AI
Paste the prompt into your chat AI. Replace the line in square brackets with your venue, using the checklist below.
Paste the reply
Copy the AI’s whole reply and paste it into 2 · Paste its reply. You do not need to cut out the JSON.
Fix anything it lists
If 3 · Check lists problems, choose Copy fixes for your AI, paste that into the same chat, and paste the new reply back. Repeat until the check shows a preview.
Build
Compare the summary with what you asked for, then choose Build N-place chart. The build replaces the draft; one Undo brings the old draft back.
The demo keeps charts in your browser. Sign up to publish or to keep the chart across devices.
2. Claude or ChatGPT connected to SeatLayer
The AI builds the chart in your SeatLayer workspace itself, with no copy and paste.
Connect once
Describe the venue
In a chat with SeatLayer turned on, write something like: “Build me a 400-seat theatre with stalls in two blocks, curved rear stalls, Premium at 80 and Standard at 55, exits on both sides.”
Let it check and build
The AI writes a Venue Spec, checks it with build_from_venue_spec in
checkOnly mode, fixes what the check lists, then builds. Approve the
write when your AI asks. The build replaces the chart’s draft.
Look at the preview
The AI validates the chart and shows a preview on desktop and mobile, with the counts it built.
Review and publish
Open the chart in the Designer to review it. Publishing is your decision: the AI can prepare a review, but it does not approve or publish on its own.
3. Copilot in the Designer
Open Copilot
Open a chart in the Designer from your dashboard, open Copilot, and choose Edit chart.
Describe the venue
Write the venue in your own words, as in the other routes.
Confirm the build
Copilot writes a Venue Spec, checks it, and asks you to confirm because the build replaces the draft. Confirm, and the chart appears as a revision you can review.
If Edit chart is unavailable on your account, use route 1.
Getting what you asked for
The AI can only build what the description says. Include:
- Seats or capacity: rows and seats per row, tables and chairs per table, standing capacity, or booth rows and columns.
- Layout: straight rows, rows curved around the stage, tables, standing, booths, or an arena bowl with stands.
- Ticket types and prices, most expensive first, and which area each one covers. Prices are plain numbers.
- The stage, or say there is none.
- Bars, entrances and exits, and which side they are on.
- Section names as buyers should see them, such as “Stalls” or “North Stand”.
A good description:
A 400-seat theatre. Stalls: 10 rows of 24 seats with a centre aisle,
all Premium at 80. Behind them, Rear Stalls: 5 curved rows of 32 seats
with two aisles, Standard at 55. Curved stage at the front. Exits on
the left and right, main entrance at the back.A vague description, which leaves the AI to guess the counts, the prices and where things go:
A medium theatre with good seats and cheap seats.Check the summary
Before you build, compare the counts with what you asked for. The Designer
shows them next to the preview, for example
400 seats · 2 categories · 2 sections. Over MCP, the AI gets the same
summary: seats, tables, booths, standing places, sections, categories and total
capacity. If a number is wrong, tell the AI what to change before building.
Then finish in the Designer
The AI gives you the structure. Finish the rest by hand:
- change row letters, seat numbers, prices and colours;
- move or curve rows, and draw section outlines, which a Venue Spec cannot do;
- look at the chart in the 3D preview;
- publish when it is ready.
More: charts and objects, sections and seat plans, and the full Venue Spec reference.