The Opportunity
The hospitality sector insight: Opening a venue from a cold shell costs $500k–$1.5M and takes 12–18 months. Opening into a site with an existing liquor licence, kitchen fitout, extraction, and amenities can cost $80k–$250k and take 3–6 months. The delta is enormous — and most operators have no systematic way to find these sites.
Across SEQ, licensed venues close every month. Some become available for lease or sale immediately. Others sit dormant while landlords negotiate or receiverships resolve. A handful are quietly relisted through commercial agents without the hospitality network ever knowing they exist. Meanwhile, aspiring operators are quoting new fitout costs they cannot afford and timelines they cannot sustain.
Venue Reboot Radar aggregates signals from multiple sources — OLGR liquor licence cancellations, DA lodgements for change-of-use, commercial lease listings, mortgagee-in-possession notices for hospitality assets, and council notices — and delivers weekly intelligence to hospitality operators, investors, and commercial agents actively looking to enter or reposition in the market.
Venue Reboot Radar aggregates signals from multiple sources — OLGR liquor licence cancellations, DA lodgements for change-of-use, commercial lease listings, mortgagee-in-possession notices for hospitality assets, and council notices — and delivers weekly intelligence to hospitality operators, investors, and commercial agents actively looking to enter or reposition in the market.
Data Sources
OLGR liquor licence register
Queensland’s Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation publishes licence holders and statuses. Cancelled, suspended, or lapsed licences attached to premises that have ceased trading are the primary signal.
DA portal (shared with #002)
Change-of-use DAs (e.g., retail to food and beverage, office to bar) often signal a venue being converted. These are early signals, not terminal ones — but they identify pipeline sites.
Commercial listings
Hospitality-specific commercial lease and sale listings on REA, Domain Commercial, and direct agent sites. Filtered for keywords: licensed, kitchen equipped, DA approved, existing fitout.
Insolvency / mortgagee notices
ASIC insolvency notices for hospitality entities. Mortgagee-in-possession listings for premises in the hospitality category. Overlap with #005 (Distress Radar) — shared signal, different product framing.
Revenue Model
Operator subscription
Weekly digest, SEQ-wide, all venue types
$79/mo
Investor / agent subscription
Includes distress signal layer and source links
$149/mo
Referral lead fee
Fee paid by landlords / agents for qualified operator introductions
$500–$2k/intro
Sponsored listings
Landlords / agents pay for priority placement in the digest
$200–$500/listing
Risk Register — Downside First
01
High
OLGR data quality and freshness
The OLGR register is updated inconsistently. A licence may appear active 60–90 days after the venue has physically closed. Signals must be cross-referenced with other sources before including in alerts. Alert accuracy is non-negotiable for this ICP.
02
Medium
Small addressable market in SEQ
The number of operators actively searching for a reboot venue at any given time in SEQ is measured in dozens, not thousands. This limits subscriber ceiling. Counter: expand to other states as proof-of-concept matures. NSW and VIC hospitality markets are 3–5x the size.
03
Low
Dependency on #002 infrastructure
This product shares scraper and alert infrastructure with #002. If #002 delivery is delayed, #003 is delayed. The flip side: marginal cost to add this vertical once #002 is live is very low.
Elon’s Execution Log
E
Status: Queued — builds in parallel with #002. OLGR licence register structure confirmed. Scraper prototype tested. Hospitality-specific keyword filter for commercial listings drafted. Founding subscriber outreach list being built: targeting independent hospo operators in Brisbane inner suburbs, Gold Coast strip, Sunshine Coast hinterland. Estimate: 30-day build, 45-day to first paying subscriber once #002 is operational.
E
The marginal cost to build #003 once #002’s scraper stack is live is estimated at less than 20% of the original build effort. Same delivery layer, same billing infrastructure, different classification rules and alert template. This is the advantage of the radar-as-a-platform model. #002 and #003 together justify a shared subscription hub.