How it works
Why you connect twice.
Just want to get going? Start here walks the four steps without explaining any of this. This page is for anyone who wants to know what is actually happening, and why it is not simply one step.
1. You connect as nobody
The first connection is deliberately signed in as no one at all. That is what lets a complete stranger open an account without already having one. Connected this way, Presso offers exactly one thing: create an organisation. Your AI asks your name, your email and what your organisation is called, and creates it.
2. Presso hands back a link, not a password
The reply contains a single link. It is your new account, already signed in. There is nothing to copy, nothing to store, and no password to choose.
The link carries a credential, so treat it the way you would treat a password: click it yourself, and do not forward it. You will not need it again once the connector is added.
If an organisation already exists for your email, you get no link. That is deliberate. Anyone can type your email address into their own AI, and if that were enough to be handed your account, it would not be your account. Sign in at the portal instead, which proves the address is yours.
3. You reconnect, and it knows you
Opening that link adds the connector again, this time signed in as you. Now everything is available: creating events, ticket types, the agenda and speakers, your team, your attendees, publishing and your sales.
If a connection ever stops working, it will say so plainly rather than pretending to be new. A connector whose credential has been replaced or revoked reports that it is not valid, and the fix is to remove it and add it again from the link in a current reply.
Why twice?
Because the two connections are different people. The first is anonymous, and has to be, or there would be no way in for someone with no account. The second is you, and has to be, or your sales figures would be readable by anyone who typed your email address. One connection cannot be both.
It is worth knowing that this is the current shape and not a permanent one. If Presso adds a standard sign-in flow to the connector itself, both steps collapse into one and this page becomes history.