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Built for haunted attractions

Your season.
Their names.
Your characters.

cogniFX is the only platform that carries a guest's identity from the moment they buy a ticket online — through your gate, through your attractions, to the moment Passage Whisper speaks their name at your character's side. Built from the ground up for haunted attractions. Run by operators who know the season.

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We know the season

Every problem you're solving
the hard way right now

cogniFX was built by people who run haunted attractions. We know what Saturday night in October looks like. Every module in this platform was built to solve a problem we've lived.

Tickets sold through five different systems
Online through one platform, walk-ups on Square, merch on cash, food booth on something else. End of night reconciliation takes longer than the event.
→ Haunt Passport unifies online, gate, merch, and F&B into one system with one report.
Staff managed through text messages and spreadsheets
Applications in your inbox, schedules in Google Sheets, time sheets on paper. Someone calls out at 7pm and you find out at 8.
→ Staff Manager handles applications, scheduling, clock-in, and hours in one place.
No idea what's actually happening inside
How many groups per hour? How long is the real wait? Which attraction is backing up? You're running on gut feel when you could be running on data.
→ RFID entry tracking gives you live throughput, group spacing, and wait times all night.
Your animatronics are impressive but generic
Great prop. Great effect. But it says the same thing to every group. Guests share the same experience as everyone else — there's nothing personal about it.
→ Passage Whisper scans the guest's wristband in front of your character and plays their name automatically. Every guest, every time.
Actors flying blind on who just walked in
Your performers are talented — but they're scaring strangers. Imagine if they knew the names of every person in the group before they walked through the door.
→ Passage Lens/Intel pushes guest names to your performers the moment each group enters their scene.
Marketing on instinct, not data
You sent the email blast. You posted on Instagram. You don't know which one sold tickets. You definitely don't know how many people started checkout and abandoned it.
→ 9 AI tools — including Haunt AI and smart cart recovery — tell you what's working and recover what you're losing.
The cogniFX guest identity chain

One name. Every moment of the night.

A guest's name enters your system when they buy a ticket. It travels through your gate, into your attractions, to your characters, and to your actors — automatically, all night long.

Buy online
Name captured at ticket purchase
Haunt Passport
Gate + RFID
Name bound to wristband — the link no ticketing company has
The bridge
Attraction entry
Group scanned — metrics + name travel forward
Haunt Passport
Passage Whisper speaks
AI animatronic addresses guest by name
cogniBOX
Actor notified
Performer sees names before group enters
Passage Lens/Intel
"Welcome, Sarah Henderson. We've been expecting you."
That's not a scripted line. That's Passage Whisper — scanning Sarah's RFID wristband as she approaches the character, querying the Passage server, and playing her name in your character's voice. No actor involvement. Happens for every guest, all night, automatically. No other platform in the haunt industry makes this possible.
The full platform

Everything you need
to run the season

Online + Onsite

Sell everywhere.
Report from one place.

Your branded online storefront handles pre-sales. Your mobile app handles the gate, the merch booth, and the food stand. One system, one end-of-night report. Stripe-powered payments, competitive per-ticket fees, no monthly charge.

✦Self-serve event setup — no tech team required
✦Multiple ticket tiers, capacity limits, date-based pricing
✦Promo codes, group discounts, and dynamic pricing rules
✦Mobile POS for gate walk-ups, merch, and F&B
✦Ticket validation + RFID wristband issue at check-in
✦Real-time revenue, attendance, and per-night reports
✦$0.49 per ticket — no monthly fees, no percentage cut
TerrorDome 2026 — Ticket Store
TerrorDome Fri Oct 17 · 7pm–midnight
General Admission
138 remaining
$28
Fast Pass
34 remaining
$45
VIP Experience
8 remaining
$75
Staff Manager

From application
to clock-out.

Haunted attractions run on seasonal staff — actors, scare zone leads, ticket takers, booth workers. Staff Manager handles the full lifecycle: applications, hiring, scheduling, mobile time keeping, and hours export. No paper, no spreadsheets, no surprises at 7pm.

✦Online staff application portal — one link, all applicants in one place
✦Role and zone assignment — scare zones, gate, merch, F&B
✦Shift scheduling with availability management
✦Mobile clock-in and clock-out — no paper time sheets
✦Live dashboard — who's in, who's on break, who's absent
✦Hours tracking and payroll export
Staff — Tonight's Roster
JM
Jamie M.
Zone 3 — Lead actor
In
SR
Sam R.
Gate — Ticket scan
In
AL
Alex L.
Merch booth
Break
KP
Kim P.
Zone 1 — Actor
New
Tonight — total hours14 staff · 42 hrs
RFID + Gate

The link that makes
everything personal.

RFID wristbands issued at check-in do more than replace paper tickets. They bind each guest's name to a physical wristband — then carry that identity through every scan point in your attraction, fueling real-time metrics and powering personalization that no other platform can deliver.

✦Fast check-in — scan QR, issue wristband, seconds per guest
✦Guest name linked to wristband at the gate
✦Per-attraction scanners log group entry timing and size
✦Live throughput: guests/hour, avg group size, wait estimates
✦Group spacing data — pace your actors across the night
✦Feeds Passage Whisper — character-level name playback add-on
✦Feeds Passage Lens/Intel — live names pushed to performers
Zone 1 Entry — Live
Entry feed Live
The Henderson family
Group of 4 · just entered
9:14 PM
Sarah & Tyler K.
Group of 2 · 3 min ago
9:11 PM
Martinez family
Group of 5 · 7 min ago
9:07 PM
192
Guests/hr
3.7
Avg group
11m
Wait est.
cogniBOX · AI Characters

Your characters
know their names.

cogniBOX brings AI-powered animatronic characters into your attraction — four tiers for every budget and use case. Core, Plus, Pro, and Apparition (coming soon). cogniBOX is a standalone product — it works with any attraction setup without requiring Haunt Passport or Passage. Add Passage Whisper alongside it if you want character-level name personalization from your guest identity chain.

✦Core — keyword-triggered audio, motion-triggered sound and effects
✦Plus — guest-initiated interactive sessions, scripted branching dialogue
✦Pro — full two-way conversational AI, stays in character, handles any guest
✦Persona Pack Builder — custom character voice, personality, script
✦Pair with Passage Lens/Intel — actor-facing displays showing guest names
✦Runs completely offline — no cloud dependency on the haunt floor
✦Video character AI — any screen, any surface (coming soon)
cogniBOX Pro — Zone 3
Malvek
Pro · Full conversational AI
"Ah... Sarah Henderson. We've been watching your family since the gate. Your brother thinks he's brave. He isn't."
Read from RFID wristband — name delivered from Haunt Passport gate check-in
Haunt AI

Ask anything
about your season.

Haunt AI is your event's own analyst — powered by Anthropic and connected to your live ticket data. Ask it anything in plain English. It knows your specific event, your sales trends, your campaigns, and your audience. No dashboards, no exports, no guesswork.

✦Plain-English answers about your event's sales and trends
✦Smart abandoned cart nudges — AI-timed and worded
✦Send-time prediction — optimal timing per audience segment
✦Audience segmentation — past buyers, VIPs, lapsed, price-sensitive
✦Event page copywriter — haunt-native conversion copy
✦Social post generator — countdowns, urgency, atmosphere
✦Campaign scoring — know what's working before the season ends
✦All 9 AI tools included at $0.49/ticket — no tier upgrade needed
Haunt AI — TerrorDome 2026
Haunt AI
Why are my Friday ticket sales down compared to last year?
Friday sales are down 18% vs. 2025, but the pattern suggests timing, not demand. Your 2025 campaign launched 3 weeks earlier. This year's first email went out Oct 3rd vs. Sep 12th — Fridays in weeks 1–2 are your biggest advance-purchase window. Recommend: send the urgency campaign this Thursday, 7pm. Predicted recovery: 60–80 tickets based on your list engagement rate.
Which promo code is actually selling tickets?
HAUNT25 has the highest conversion rate at 34%, but SCARY10 is driving 2.4× more total volume. SCARY10 is the one to push on social this weekend.
Built for the season

Pre-season to post-close.
cogniFX runs every phase.

Phase 1 · Summer
Build the season
Set up your event, configure ticket tiers, open staff applications, and launch your online storefront before the competition does.
Self-serve event creation
Staff applications open
Early bird ticket tiers live
AI copywriter for event page
Phase 2 · Pre-season
Drive ticket sales
Haunt AI identifies your best audience segments, times your campaigns for maximum open rates, and recovers every abandoned cart automatically.
Audience segmentation
Send-time prediction
Cart abandonment recovery
Social post generator
Phase 3 · Opening nights
Run the operation
Gate running smooth, staff clocked in, RFID wristbands flowing, and live throughput data telling you exactly what's happening inside your attraction in real time.
Gate + RFID check-in
Staff live dashboard
Real-time throughput
Passage Whisper speaks guest names
The next big thing — it's already here

Your attraction gets smarter
every season it runs.

Haunted attractions live and die on differentiation. Fog machines and jump scares are table stakes. Passage Whisper speaks your guest's name at the character level — and cogniBOX Pro holds a full AI conversation with them. Together they create experiences guests screenshot in the parking lot and talk about for a week. No competitor has either piece of this, let alone both.

Operational intelligence
Data that makes every season better than the last
Every night you run Haunt Passport, your platform accumulates intelligence about your event — what sells, when it sells, who's buying, where you're losing people. Haunt AI turns that data into plain-English answers you can act on before the next weekend.
✦ Throughput intelligence — know which attraction is bottlenecking your flow before guests feel it
✦ Campaign intelligence — Haunt AI tells you which promo codes, emails, and social posts are actually selling tickets
✦ Audience intelligence — segmentation that gets sharper every season as your buyer history grows
✦ Revenue intelligence — abandoned cart recovery, send-time prediction, and daily insights that compound across seasons
Guest-facing intelligence
The experience guests have never had — and won't forget
An attraction where a device speaks your name as you approach a character — and an AI character holds a real conversation with you — is memorable in a way that a jump scare never is. Guests share it. They come back. They tell their friends the attraction "knew who they were." That word-of-mouth is the most valuable marketing you'll never pay for.
✦ Personalized by name — every group gets a different experience because your characters know who walked in
✦ Genuinely conversational — guests can speak to your AI characters and get responses that feel improvised, not scripted
✦ Impossible to replicate — competitors can buy the same animatronic body. They can't buy the identity chain that makes it personal
✦ Grows more capable over time — conversational AI improves every year. Your investment compounds as the technology advances
Why this is the next big thing — and why now
Every major wave in the haunt industry came from technology that made the experience feel impossible — pneumatic scares, animatronics, digital effects, immersive theming. Passage Whisper that speaks a guest's name — and cogniBOX Pro that holds a real conversation with them — that's the next wave. The operators who deploy it first won't just have a better attraction — they'll have the attraction everyone in their market is talking about. cogniFX is the only platform that makes this deployable today, because we built the identity chain that makes it real. Your competitors are still looking for their next fog machine.
Pricing

Start with ticketing.
Add everything else as you grow.

Ticketing
Online storefront, mobile POS, and all 9 AI tools. Everything to sell tickets and run your gate.
$0.49 / ticket
No monthly fee. No % cut. All 9 AI tools included.
✦Online storefront + mobile POS
✦Merch + F&B sales
✦Promo codes + dynamic pricing
✦All 9 AI marketing tools
✦Haunt AI analyst
+Staff Manager — add on
+RFID — add on
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Full Platform
Ticketing + Staff Manager + RFID. The complete operations stack for your season.
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Ticketing at $0.49/ticket + Staff Manager season rate + RFID hardware. Bundle pricing available.
✦Everything in Ticketing
✦Staff applications + scheduling
✦Mobile time keeping
✦RFID gate check-in
✦Live throughput + wait times
✦Passage-ready — add venue intelligence and Whisper name personalization
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Full Platform + Passage + cogniBOX
The complete guest identity chain — ticketing to characters. Nothing like it exists.
Custom
Full Platform plus cogniBOX hardware. One-time hardware purchase — no recurring character fees.
✦Everything in Full Platform
✦cogniBOX animatronic characters
✦RFID name personalization — live
✦Passage Lens/Intel ready — actor intelligence feed
✦Persona Pack Builder — custom characters
+Video character AI — coming soon
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Ready to run your best season yet?

Book a 20-minute demo. We'll walk through how the platform works for your specific haunt — attraction count, staff size, gate volume, all of it.

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