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PredictHQ for SignalGuard Event Security

Connect PredictHQ to SignalGuard for predicted attendance and impact ranks on ticketed events near your venue. Sharper crowd-impact context per scan.

Bring your PredictHQ access token to enrich SignalGuard's nearby-events context with predicted attendance and impact ranks, so the platform reasons about overlapping demand near your venue, not just whether tickets exist.

What PredictHQ adds to SignalGuard

PredictHQ enriches the Context pillar — specifically the nearby-events signal that SignalGuard already pulls from Ticketmaster Discovery. While Ticketmaster tells you a concert is on sale, PredictHQ tells you the forecast attendance, its PredictHQ impact rank, and the historical demand pattern around that event window.

Inside SignalGuard's 50+-signal fusion, that turns "there's another event nearby" into "there's a 38,000-capacity event nearby that historically drives a 2.4x parking-lot crowd in your radius." That number then feeds the Crowd Potential rollup, which is one of the highest-weighted Context inputs in the venue-level score.

PredictHQ also covers categories Ticketmaster does not — academic events, public holidays, observances, severe-weather aftermath — which lets SignalGuard reason about competing demand sources that wouldn't otherwise appear in a ticketing feed.

How the integration works

Paste your PredictHQ access token into the PredictHQ tile at /integrations. SignalGuard validates it with a one-row events call, then stores it AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest. All PredictHQ requests run server-side from SignalGuard's backend.

Common use cases

  • Sports venue ops accounting for overlapping concert demand within drive radius
  • Festival site selection comparing predicted attendance bands across dates
  • Stadium parking and ingress planning against competing events
  • Corporate event security briefings with attendance-weighted nearby context
  • City-wide special-event coordination across multiple venues
  • Crowd Potential rollup tuning for new venues without historical baselines

What you need

A PredictHQ account on a paid tier. Pricing starts around $500/mo with a 7-day trial available. Generate your access token from the PredictHQ dashboard's API section. Full docs at predicthq.com/apis.

FAQ

Do I need a PredictHQ subscription? No — the nearby-events signal works without it. PredictHQ upgrades the signal with attendance forecasts and impact ranks rather than replacing it.

Where do I add my key? In your SignalGuard workspace at /integrations. Open the PredictHQ tile and paste your access token.

Is my key secure? Yes. Tokens are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest, only decrypted in server memory at request time, and never logged or sent to the browser.

Connect PredictHQ

Connect PredictHQ in your SignalGuard workspace → and review the signal docs for how nearby events feed the Context pillar.

Frequently asked

The questions ops leads ask before swapping a vendor key into SignalGuard.

What does PredictHQ add to SignalGuard?
PredictHQ adds predicted attendance counts and impact ranks to the nearby-events context. Instead of just a list of nearby Ticketmaster events, your brief shows expected crowd size and impact severity per event.
How is this different from Ticketmaster's API?
Ticketmaster lists official ticketed events. PredictHQ forecasts attendance impact across ticketed and non-ticketed events — including conferences, sports, and public holidays that affect venue catchment but don't appear on Ticketmaster Discovery.
What does a PredictHQ contract cost?
PredictHQ starts at $500/month with a 7-day trial. Pricing scales with event volume and impact-rank tiers. SignalGuard supports any active PredictHQ contract — bring your access token.
How do I connect PredictHQ?
Generate a personal access token in the PredictHQ dashboard → API → Personal access tokens. Paste it on /integrations under PredictHQ. SignalGuard validates with a v1/events call.
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Connect your key

Drop in your PredictHQ for SignalGuard Event Security key. SignalGuard does the rest.

Bring-your-own-key, encrypted at rest. Swap or revoke any time from /integrations.

Connect PredictHQ for SignalGuard Event Security

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