--- title: "Your first chart with AI" description: "Describe your venue in plain words and get a seating chart you can edit, check and publish. Three routes, from no setup at all to an AI connected to SeatLayer." --- > Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.seatlayer.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your first chart with AI 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](/agents/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](#1-any-chat-ai) | Nothing. The free demo Designer works without an account | A few minutes | | [2. Claude or ChatGPT connected to SeatLayer](#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](#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. 1. **Open the Designer** Use the free demo at [app.seatlayer.io/demo/designer](https://app.seatlayer.io/demo/designer), which needs no account, or open a chart in the Designer in your dashboard. 2. **Open the AI dialog** Choose **New from → Paste from an AI…**. 3. **Copy the prompt** Choose **Copy prompt for your AI**. 4. **Ask your AI** Paste the prompt into your chat AI. Replace the line in square brackets with your venue, using the [checklist below](#getting-what-you-asked-for). 5. **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. 6. **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. 7. **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. 1. **Connect once** Add `https://mcp.seatlayer.io/mcp?tools=build` as a custom connector in [Claude](/agents/connect-claude/) or a custom app in [ChatGPT](/agents/connect-chatgpt/). A SeatLayer admin approves the connection on the consent screen, for one chart or a whole workspace. 2. **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." 3. **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. 4. **Look at the preview** The AI validates the chart and shows a preview on desktop and mobile, with the counts it built. 5. **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 1. **Open Copilot** Open a chart in the Designer from your dashboard, open **Copilot**, and choose **Edit chart**. 2. **Describe the venue** Write the venue in your own words, as in the other routes. 3. **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: ```text title="good-description.txt" 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: ```text title="vague-description.txt" 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](/designer/publishing-and-versioning/) when it is ready. More: [charts and objects](/designer/charts-and-objects/), [sections and seat plans](/designer/sections-and-seat-plans/), and the full [Venue Spec reference](/agents/venue-spec/). Source: https://docs.seatlayer.io/start/first-chart-with-ai/index.mdx