How Houndy Works

Find any event. Plan anything.

Houndy is an event discovery and planning platform. We help people find things to do across the UK — from major concerts and sporting events to hidden local gems — and make it easy to save, plan and book.

How it works, step by step

Search in plain English

Type what you're looking for — 'jazz tonight in Soho', 'family weekend outdoors', 'comedy this Friday under £20'. Houndy understands context, not just keywords.

Ask Houndy

Use the Ask Houndy assistant for natural language search. Ask 'what's on near me tonight?' or 'find me something fun this weekend' and Houndy will find events that match.

Plan My Day

Tell Houndy when you're free (Tonight, Tomorrow, This Weekend, or pick a date) and where you want to go. Houndy finds viable events based on time of day, start times, and preparation buffers.

Save and plan

Save events you're interested in. Add them to your Concierge to build a full day plan — tickets, travel, dining, parking, and accommodation.

Concierge timeline

Your Concierge plan shows a timeline: Before (meal, travel, parking), Event (tickets, arrival), and After (drinks, nearby). Stay options appear only where appropriate for distant events.

Book with confidence

Ticket links go directly to official ticketing platforms. You buy directly from the official seller. Houndy never handles payments.

Verified event data

Our Quality Guardian system continuously checks event data against official sources. Dates, venues, ticket URLs and images are verified. If something looks wrong, it gets flagged for review.

Where our events come from

Houndy aggregates event data from trusted sources and verifies it before publishing. We do not invent or fabricate events.

Ticketmaster

Major concerts, sport, theatre and live events. Our primary event acquisition source.

Official venue pages

Direct from venue and organiser websites, verified by our team.

User-submitted events

Promoters and organisers can submit events via our Organiser section. Reviewed before publishing.

All events are subject to Houndy's quality gate before appearing publicly. Dates, venues, images and ticket links are validated. Always confirm final details with the venue or ticket seller before attending.

How Houndy earns revenue

Houndy is a free service. During our beta period, we are establishing affiliate relationships with ticket platforms. When you click a ticket link and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission from the ticket provider. You never pay more because of this. The price you see is the price you pay.

Not all booking links currently earn commission. We include non-affiliate links (venue box offices, organiser direct links) when they are the best source for an event. See our full affiliate disclosure →

How we use AI

Houndy uses AI in specific, bounded ways:

  • Ask Houndy — interpreting natural language search queries to extract intent (genre, date, location, mood)
  • Event classification — categorising events when provider data is incomplete
  • Image relevance — checking that images are relevant to the event category

Most of our platform — standard search, Concierge planning, Plan My Day, event admission, and maintenance — is deterministic and does not use AI. AI does not invent events or fabricate sources. AI and event accuracy policy →

Common questions

Is Houndy free to use?

Yes. Houndy is free. We earn revenue through affiliate commissions when you buy tickets through our links, where affiliate relationships exist.

Do I need an account?

No. You can discover and search events without an account. Creating an account lets you save events, build plans and get personalised recommendations.

Does Houndy sell tickets?

No. Houndy links to official ticket sellers. You purchase directly from them.

What is Plan My Day?

Plan My Day helps you find events for a specific time — Tonight, Tomorrow, This Weekend, or a date you choose. It considers event start times and preparation buffers to show viable options.

What is the Concierge?

The Concierge helps you build a full day plan around an event — tickets, travel, dining, parking, and accommodation. Your plan persists across sessions and can be shared.

Can I list my event on Houndy?

Yes. Promoters and organisers can submit events via our Organiser section.

Ready to discover something?

Search events, save what you love, and plan your next great night out.

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