In a MAIN exclusive, bundleIQ CEO Nicholas Mohnacky explains how Alani Connect turns a one-time conference into a year-round AI room, how it earns revenue, and why the West Palm Beach company builds close to Miami.
Alani Connect is built on one idea: the conference is the starting point, not the product.
In an exclusive MAIN conversation, bundleIQ CEO Nicholas Mohnacky described Alani Connect: an AI-powered "room" that keeps an event's content and community working.
This is part of a peer-to-peer series of conversations MAIN runs exclusively with South Florida's AI founders, investors and leaders. We asked Mohnacky a handful of questions in writing. His answers, lightly edited for length, are below.
What Problem Does Alani Connect Solve?
Mohnacky says bundleIQ started to help people turn scattered knowledge into something usable. Events made the problem obvious.
“Organizers spend months bringing together content, companies, speakers, and people, then much of that value gets scattered across apps, CRMs, inboxes, PDFs, and personal notes once the event ends.”
He does not treat events as the whole market. “Conferences made that problem especially obvious, but they are really a beachhead market for us, not the full opportunity.”
How Does a Room Work?
Alani Connect gives a conference, association, member organization or publisher a room for its content, companies and community.
Members can watch, read, listen, search or ask questions. The AI agent answers from the room’s own content, and it helps people find relevant members and companies.
Mohnacky says the room is not “just a directory or event microsite.” It becomes the “primary entry point to that organization’s knowledge and community.”
New content can keep arriving through webinars, discussions and other programming throughout the year.
Who Pays?
The model starts with the host. Rooms run on a software subscription priced by member scale, often around a dollar per member.
Hosts can also charge for premium access, with revenue shared between the organizer and Alani Connect. Mohnacky gives an example: someone who cannot attend a $1,200 event in person might still pay for year-round access.
Hosts can add advertising and sponsorships too. The named options are a Room Sponsor, a Weekly Digest Sponsor and a Knowledge Sponsor.
He rejects the idea of a virtual copy of the event. “We are not trying to recreate the conference online. The in-person gathering remains the high-signal moment.”
What Did Defense Scrutiny Change?
bundleIQ went through Gold Coast Accelerator’s dual-use and defense cohort. Mohnacky says the cohort sharpened an existing belief: “trust has to be built into the product.” He lists provenance, permissions, citations, and knowing where an answer came from.
The cohort also gave the company visibility with senior leaders who run organizations, events and summits. Some became customers or made introductions.
bundleIQ now wants more defense and dual-use communities on the platform. Mohnacky says Alani is built around “grounded, verifiable knowledge instead of answers that simply sound convincing.”
MAIN has covered Miami's rise as a defense tech hub, where the same buyers evaluate trust.
Why West Palm Beach?
Mohnacky lived in San Francisco when he started the company and went through a deep-tech accelerator there. He moved back for quality of life.
South Florida suits the business, he says, because customers, partners and contacts are nearby. bundleIQ is “close enough to Miami to tap into its density.”
His CTO and co-founder works out of The Lab in Miami. Much of the company was built through relationships formed locally, including through 1909 and accelerator programs.
Miami hosts large conferences of its own. MAIN has covered the eMerge AI Summit landing Hugging Face's CEO.
What Does a Conference Look Like in 2029?
Mohnacky expects in-person time to gain value. “By 2029, I think the days people spend together in person will matter even more.”
His reasoning is direct. “As AI fills more of the internet and our inboxes, real human connection becomes more valuable.”
The event still matters, but its role changes. In his words, “the event itself becomes the starting point rather than the entire product.”
In that picture, the content stays searchable and the companies stay discoverable. Relationships keep developing between editions.
Organizers then keep compounding what they built, instead of rebuilding the community from zero each year. That is the case Alani Connect makes to the event industry.
Nicholas Mohnacky is CEO of bundleIQ, Inc., the West Palm Beach company behind Alani Connect (alaniconnect.com). bundleIQ holds a verified profile in the MAIN index.
Sources:
- Nicholas Mohnacky, CEO, bundleIQ. Responses to MAIN questions, October 5, 2026
- Alani Connect
- MAIN: Inside Miami's rise as a defense tech hub
- MAIN: Miami's eMerge AI Summit lands Hugging Face CEO
