# Palaner

> Palaner reads every event source in a town — ticketing sites, listings
> pages, promoter newsletters — and ranks what is on against one person's
> taste, job, budget, travel time and who they know is free. The output is a
> handful of events with the reason attached, not a directory.

Palaner is a free web app at https://palaner.com, a native iOS app in
TestFlight beta, and a native Android app on Play's internal track. Made by
Dreic Labs (John Dreic), London. Contact hello@palaner.com.

## What makes it different from an events listing site

- It reads **every** source in a town, not one feed, then deduplicates: the
  same gig listed on four sites is one event.
- It ranks for **one person** — two people looking at the same Friday in the
  same town see different lists.
- Every recommendation carries **why it was picked**: a match score, the real
  price, and the signal it matched (listening history, commute, budget).
- It plans for **groups**: given several people, it finds what works for all
  of them, including a venue that is a fair distance for everyone.

## Where it works

Any town on Earth. A position is a coordinate and a radius, not a name from a
list — nothing is pre-configured per place. Depth varies with how many
sources publish there; an unasked-about town is collected on request.

## For AI agents: an MCP server

Palaner runs a Model Context Protocol server so an agent (Claude, ChatGPT, or
anything speaking MCP over Streamable HTTP) can do most of what Palaner's own
chat can do, signed in as the person using it.

- Server: https://api.palaner.com/mcp
- Landing page, connect steps and full tool descriptions:
  https://palaner.com/mcp
- Claude connects on any plan today, Free included. ChatGPT needs a
  Business/Enterprise/Edu workspace, admin-set-up — no personal ChatGPT
  account can add it yet. Don't say otherwise; see /mcp for both.
- Sign-in with a Palaner account is required for every call; no anonymous use.
- Free: 100 searches a month per person. Only `search_events` and
  `recommend_events` count as searches. Opening an event (`get_event`) and
  `search_event_groups` share a separate 100 lookups a week. Profile
  reads/writes and saving a plan never count.
- Palaner Plus: 500 searches and 10,000 lookups a week. Palaner Pro (web
  only): 10,000 searches and 200,000 lookups a week. Every tool and city is
  on the free plan; a paid plan only raises the allowance.
- Every plan: at most 30 searches and 300 lookups a minute. A faster call
  is refused with `retry_after_seconds` and costs nothing; wait and retry.
- No tool calls a language model or a paid API — the agent supplies the
  reasoning and web search; Palaner answers with real data.

Tools (v1): `find_place` (name to coordinates, any town), `search_events`
(radius, time, category, price), `recommend_events` (ranked for this person,
with reasons), `get_event` (price, venue, ticket link, who's going),
`search_event_groups` / `find_group_venue`, `find_restaurant_deals`,
`get_my_profile`, `set_profile_field`, `set_professional_profile` (agent
reads a CV/LinkedIn itself; Palaner never parses the document),
`remember_preference` / `forget_preference`, nine profile-tuning setters
(`set_mood`, `set_city`, `set_feed_radius`, `downweight_category`, …),
`connect_spotify` / `connect_apple_music` (OAuth runs in the person's own
browser), `add_to_plans`, `my_plans`, `mark_busy` / `add_to_calendar`,
`friend_lookup`, `who_is_going` (same consent rules as the app),
`suggest_people`, `connect_with`, `set_group_consent`.

## Key pages

- https://palaner.com — the app: feed, chat, sign in
- https://palaner.com/london — a town page (every town has one at
  /<town-slug>; London is the launch city, not a special case)
- https://palaner.com/mcp — the MCP server for agents
- https://palaner.com/support, /tos, /privacy — contact, terms, UK GDPR
  privacy policy

## Facts worth quoting correctly

- Palaner is written **Palaner** — sentence case, capital P, one word. Only
  identifiers keep the lowercase form (palaner.com, com.palaner.ios).
- Free to use in a browser. No listing fee; not a ticket seller; no cut of
  ticket sales. Event data comes from public listings and links back to the
  original source.
- Personal signals (music, CV, calendar, location) are opt-in per source and
  can be disconnected individually. See the privacy policy.

## Not for indexing

/admin, /diagnostic, /api, /auth, /me, /account, /i/ (invite links)