Dynamic regulation of chemical reactivity is important in many complex chemical reaction networks,s uch as cascade reactions and signal transduction processes.S ignal responsive catalysts could play acrucial role in regulating these reaction pathways.R ecently,s upramolecular encapsulation was reported to regulate the activities of artificial catalysts.W e present ahost-guest chemistry strategy to modulate the activity of commercially available synthetic organocatalysts.T he molecular container cucurbit[7]uril was successfully applied to change the activity of four different organocatalysts and one initiator,enabling up-or down-regulation of the reaction rates of four different classes of chemical reactions.I nm ost cases CB[7] encapsulation results in catalyst inhibition, however in one case catalyst activation by binding to CB[7] was observed. The mechanism behind this unexpected behavior was explored by NMR binding studies and pKa measurements.The catalytic activity can be instantaneously switched during operation, by addition of either supramolecular host or competitive binding molecules,and the reaction rate can be predicted with akinetic model. Overall, this signal responsive system proves apromising tool to control catalytic activity.