It's 3pm. You've opened four tabs to figure out tonight. You're going to guess anyway.
Know tonight before tonight arrives.
VenueIQ does the looking-up: weather, bookings, nearby events, your own trading history. Then shows the reasoning behind every number. You still make the call.
Free for 3 months · Melbourne venues only · No lock-in
Today's forecast · Monday 4 May
harvest blend, fitzroy
$4,200
$3,600 – $4,900
01Day-of-week baseline$4,500
02Weather & season−$180
03Confirmed bookings+$320
04Nearby events & signals−$95
05Recent performance trend−$220
06Calibration & bias correction−$125
Within 8–12%
Of actual revenue after 60 days of use
Daily
Re-tuned to your venue's pattern
Plain English
Reasoning shown for every forecast
See it work
A forecast, in real time.
This is the actual product, sped up. Manager types in tonight's context, runs the forecast, sees the reasoning. No real numbers, just the flow.
venueiq.xyz / dashboard
Demo · simulated
harvest blend, fitzroy
Mon 4 May · 6:00pm
How it works
AI you can argue with.
Most forecasting tools hand you a number and ask you to trust it. VenueIQ hands you a number with the context behind it, and leaves the call to you.
01
It does the looking-up
Weather forecasts, nearby events, road closures, public holidays, school terms, and your own trading history. All synthesised every morning before service starts.
→ Stop opening tabs before service.
02
It speaks your venue's context
Built for independent Australian hospitality, not a generic business tool. Knows the Restaurant Industry Award, the Victorian calendar, Saturday-vs-Wednesday-lunch differences, and how a Comedy Festival weekend hits Fitzroy.
→ Tuned to your shape, not a global average.
03
It defers to you
Every forecast shows its assumptions in plain English. Disagree with the call? Override it. Add context the system can't see, and your daily notes feed straight back into the next prediction.
→ You're still the manager. We're the prep cook.
What changes for you
You already do this. We just do it faster.
Every venue manager already runs this calculation in their head. VenueIQ runs it before service starts, with more inputs, fewer tabs, and reasoning you can read.
Without VenueIQ
The 3pm scramble.
Four tabs open at 3pm. Weather, bookings, last week's POS, the staff WhatsApp.
Tuesday is "weird", and nobody can quite say why
Find out at midnight you under-prepped, or staffed up for nothing
Last week's spreadsheet for next week's roster
With VenueIQ
One screen, every morning.
One screen, ready before service. Context already gathered.
Tuesday explained, tuned to your venue, not an average
Catch the margin slide at 6pm, while you can still act on it
A roster decision backed by what's actually likely tonight
Why VenueIQ
Most tools tell you what already happened.
VenueIQ tells you what's about to happen, and what to do about it.
Spreadsheet
POS analytics
VenueIQ
Forecasts tonight
Last week's gut feel
4-week average
Reasoned, multi-source
Watches your shift live
No
Midnight summary
Live gauge with suggestions
Tells you what to do
No
No
Yes, when margin slips
Gets sharper over time
No
No
Calibrates every shift
External context
None
Weather (some)
Weather, events, roads, calendar
The system
Three things, working together.
VenueIQ isn't one feature with two side dishes. It's a layered system that anticipates the night, intervenes when it slips, and learns from every shift.
Projected revenue
$4,200
$3,600 to $4,900 confidence band
✓ Likely profitable68% confidence
Before service · Today
Anticipate
Forecasts built from context no spreadsheet or POS report tracks. See tonight's expected revenue with the reasoning behind it.
Live shift margin
$1,240
Target $1,800 · 4 hrs remaining
Margin warning. Consider reducing prep waste for the rest of service.
During service · Monitor
Intervene
A live margin gauge that flags problems while you can still act on them. Plus concrete suggestions for what to do, not vague warnings.
Coming next · Pilot venues shape it
30-day accuracy
Mon avg$4,180 actual+1.2%
Fri avg$6,240 actual−0.8%
Sat avg$7,100 actual+4.3%
Across time · Accuracy
Learn
Submit your actuals after each shift and the system calibrates to your venue. The longer you use it, the tighter forecasts get.
Where competitors stop
Catch the slide while you can still fix it.
Most analytics tools tell you at midnight that you missed margin. By then, the staff are gone, the prep is in the bin, and your only option is to write it off. VenueIQ watches your shift live, and tells you when there's still time to act.
Coming next · Pilot venues help us shape it
venueiq / monitor
Preview
6:00pm4 hrs into service
Revenue so far
$1,240
Target by close
$1,800
22%
0%15%30%
Live shift margin
Margin's slipping. Consider closing section three for the rest of service. Estimated saving on staff hours: $180. The Tuesday weather suggestion you ignored is now visible in the trade pattern.
Behind the forecast
We watch the world so you can run the floor.
VenueIQ pulls together the signals that shape your night. The obvious ones, the easy-to-miss ones, and the ones nobody has time to chase down. Synthesised every morning, before service starts.
What's happening outside
Weather, transport, road works, public holidays, school terms. Anything that changes whether people leave home tonight and how they get around.
What's drawing crowds
Concerts, festivals, sporting fixtures, community events. Within walking distance of your venue, plus the broader rhythm of the calendar around you.
Your venue's own rhythm
Trading history by day-of-week and season. The patterns that make your Tuesday different from your Friday, used to tune every forecast to your shape specifically.
What only you know
Confirmed bookings, private functions, daily notes. Context the system can't see on its own. You add it, the brain factors it in.
Specific situations
The kind of thing it catches.
Not theory. The actual nights where a generic forecast would miss and a tuned one wouldn't.
It's been raining since 1pm but clears by 6. Your daily total is misleading. Walk-ins recover.
AFL Grand Final week. Tuesday hits like a Friday in cafes near the MCG.
Comedy Festival show 200m away ends 9:15. Pre-show diners spike from 6:30.
Long weekend Friday. Your regulars are at the coast, but tourists are hunting brunch in Fitzroy.
School holidays in Carlton. Uni crowd disappears, family tables surge for lunch.
Public holiday eve. Last-train-Friday energy. Bar trade up 30% before midnight.
From the floor
We've worked the shift you're trying to plan.
We've stood in the kitchen at 5pm wondering if Tuesday's going to be busy. We've over-prepped Saturday and watched uneaten food hit the bin at midnight. We've spent half a Sunday adding up last week's covers in a spreadsheet just to work out next week's roster.
VenueIQ is built for that.Not for chains with data teams. Not for generic "AI for SMBs." For the operator running the floor, the books, and the staff WhatsApp at the same time.
Every pilot inquiry comes to us directly. We'll talk to you ourselves before anything gets connected. We want to know your venue, not just sign you up.
8 of 20 pilot spots remaining · Melbourne only · No card required
Honest qualification
VenueIQ won't work for everyone.
Worth knowing before you spend ten minutes on the application.
Use VenueIQ if
You run an independent venue, single or a small group
You make staffing or prep decisions daily and a 10% miss matters
You've got at least 3 months of trading history to work from
You're willing to submit actuals daily. That's the learning loop
Skip VenueIQ if
You're a chain with a data team and existing forecasting in place
You've been trading less than 3 months and there's no signal yet
You don't want to share your POS or actual revenue numbers
You expect a black-box "just trust the algorithm" tool
Melbourne pilot program
Work with us to build something better.
VenueIQ isn't generally available yet. We're running a small Melbourne pilot to refine the brain with real venues before we open up.
What you get from us
In exchange for your feedback, pilot venues get full platform access at no cost, and direct input into the product.
✓
Full platform access free for 3 months. No credit card, no lock-in.
✓
Weekly 30-minute check-in calls directly with the founding team
✓
Your Square POS integrated and your venue profile built in ~30 minutes
✓
Victorian holiday calendar, Award rates, and AEST handling already built in
✓
An optional published case study at the end if results are positive
Our promise:if VenueIQ isn't actually helping you make better calls by month two, we walk away. No paid pitch at the end of the pilot, no awkward sales calls. We'd rather know it didn't work than dress it up.
8 of 20 Melbourne spots remaining. We onboard venues one at a time.
What we ask in return
Submit actuals daily
After each shift, mark what you actually took. This is the signal that trains the model. It takes 30 seconds.
Weekly feedback calls
Thirty minutes a week with the team. What's working, what's confusing, what you wish it did differently.
Honest assessment at the end
Did VenueIQ help you make better decisions? We want the unvarnished answer, including if the answer is no.
Optional: Square integration
Connecting Square makes forecasts significantly more accurate. It's optional, but we recommend it. Lightspeed and Hospo support coming.
Apply for a pilot spot
Tell us about your venue.
We'll be in touch within 48 hours. If there's a fit, we'll get you set up in one 30-minute session.
Common questions
Honest answers.
No, and we're not trying to. You've run hospitality for years. VenueIQ synthesises data you can't easily track yourself (weather, road closures, nearby events, your own trading history) and gives you a starting point with transparent reasoning. You still decide. The 'daily notes' field lets you add context the system can't see.
For venues with 6+ weeks of actuals submitted, we're typically within 8 to 12% of actual revenue on a given day. Accuracy improves substantially over the first 30 to 60 days as the calibration step corrects for systematic bias. Our methodology document covers the benchmarks in detail.
You can still use VenueIQ. You'd enter daily actuals manually after each shift (takes 30 seconds). Forecasts are less accurate without historical POS data, but the structured reasoning from external signals is still useful. We support Square now; Lightspeed and Hospo are coming.
We'll have an honest conversation about whether it's working for you. If it is, we'll discuss pricing for continued access. If it isn't, there's no obligation. The goal of the pilot is to build something genuinely useful, not to lock people in.
Yes. Your revenue data is stored encrypted, never shared with other venues, and never used to train models in a way that could expose your information. Full details are in our privacy policy.
The Victorian public holiday calendar, school terms, Award rate configuration, and local event data feeds are all built specifically for Melbourne. Expanding to Sydney and Brisbane is on the roadmap once the Melbourne pilot establishes baseline accuracy.
We have a methodology paper covering the prediction approach, accuracy benchmarks, and the data we use. Email hello@venueiq.xyz and we'll send it to you. We keep it slightly gated because we want to know who's reading, not because it's a secret.
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