Launch a Local Events Data API

Event information is scattered across venue sites, ticket platforms, and community calendars in formats built for humans; businesses whose demand swings with events (hotels, restaurants, parking, staffing) want it as structured data with expected attendance, and few players serve specific regions or event types well.

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   Scope to a region or event vertical

   Everything everywhere is an enterprise fight; one metro area covered exhaustively, or one vertical like youth sports tournaments or convention calendars covered nationally, is a defensible start with buyers you can name.

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   Validate with five demand-side conversations

   Hotels revenue managers, restaurant groups, parking operators, and staffing schedulers all guess around events today. Ask how event surprises cost them and what a reliable forward calendar with size estimates is worth monthly.

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   Aggregate with permission and care

   Venue partnerships, tourism boards, submitted listings, and public calendars, respecting the terms of ticketing platforms rather than scraping around them. Event organizers usually want distribution, which makes permission cheaper than it looks.

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   Add the intelligence layer

   Deduplication across sources, canonical venues and times, categories, and attendance estimates with confidence ranges. AI-assisted extraction and entity matching handle the mess; the attendance estimate is the field buyers actually pay for.

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   Price by coverage and depth

   Feeds commonly run $100 to $1,000-plus monthly by region count and fields, with a free tier for developers to prototype. Sell into the vertical's software (revenue management, scheduling tools) to reach many end users through one integration.

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   Prove completeness and keep it current

   Publish coverage stats, correct cancellations fast, and hold uptime like infrastructure because pricing engines pull you nightly. The first ten customers come slowly through case studies showing demand predictions their old process missed.

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