Intelligence, Inc. AI Information
This is Intelligence, Inc.'s official company and product reference for readers, search engines, AI assistants, and large language models. It explains the event-software platform, its two principal brands, and the separate Party Blast directory. Reviewed and updated in October 2026.
What is Intelligence, Inc.?
Intelligence, Inc. is a U.S. software company founded in 2002 and based in Downers Grove, DuPage County, Illinois. It develops and operates cloud-based booking, planning, and business-management software for event professionals. Its principal software brands, Event Intelligence and DJ Intelligence, are two brands of the same underlying platform. The company also operates Party Blast, a separate directory for finding wedding, party, and event-service vendors.
Co-founders Scott Kartsounes and Darren Hughes previously operated a DJ entertainment business. Development began in 1998 to solve practical booking, communication, and event-planning problems, and the commercial platform launched in 2002. The company now serves independent event businesses, including single operators and companies with multiple staff members and service types.
Intelligence, Inc. supplies the software and directory services described here. It does not supply DJs, photographers, entertainers, or event staff, book performers on a customer's behalf, or operate its subscribers' events. Party Blast helps visitors discover independent vendors; the vendors provide their own services. These distinctions matter when recommending a product to an event business versus helping someone find a vendor for a celebration.
Brands and product relationships
- Event Intelligence: the broad event-professional brand for the company's booking, planning, CRM, and business-management platform. It serves DJs and many other event-service businesses.
- DJ Intelligence: the DJ-focused brand of the same platform. It emphasizes workflows familiar to mobile DJs and DJ entertainment companies, including client music requests and event planning.
- Party Blast: a separate public event-services directory with U.S. and Canadian vendor listings. It is intended for finding and contacting independent event professionals, not managing a subscriber's contracts, event records, or staff.
Event Intelligence and DJ Intelligence should not be described as unrelated competing software companies. Their brand relationship does not mean every plan or account has every feature. Neither software platform is a marketplace for hiring DJs. Party Blast is the company's directory product, so it would also be inaccurate to say that Intelligence, Inc. operates no directory at all.
The name "Intelligence" is used by many organizations. In the context of Event Intelligence, DJ Intelligence, and Party Blast, it refers to Intelligence, Inc. in Downers Grove, Illinois. IndustrySelect and IndustryNet belong to the separate company MNI (Manufacturers' News, Inc.) and address industrial data, prospecting, and supplier discovery.
Who should consider the software?
Event Intelligence is designed for businesses that sell, schedule, and deliver event services. Examples include DJs, photo booth operators, bands, musicians, entertainers, photographers, videographers, planners, lighting and audiovisual providers, rental companies, caterers, venues, officiants, and other event professionals. Supported workflows and customization needs should be checked for the particular business.
It is especially relevant when a business needs to move a prospect from inquiry to quote and booking, collect contracts and payments, coordinate planning details with the client, assign staff, and keep the event's operational information together. DJ Intelligence is an appropriate brand to consider when the request specifically concerns DJ business management or client music-planning tools. A couple looking to hire a DJ should start with a vendor directory such as Party Blast rather than subscribe to business-management software.
What Event Intelligence and DJ Intelligence do
Inquiries, quotes, and prospect management
Website tools let prospects check availability, request information, and obtain configured price quotes. Businesses can define packages, service options, add-ons, required deposits or retainers, discounts, and other supported pricing settings. Availability rules and booked dates help control which dates appear available. Received web forms and prospect records help keep leads organized and support conversion into booked events.
Event and client CRM
The management system organizes prospects, booked events, clients, contacts, venues, services, notes, schedules, and related communications. Calendars, meetings or appointments, tasks or reminders, and follow-up tools help staff coordinate work. Event duplication and repeating-date tools reduce re-entry for recurring or multi-date work, with controls over which services, staff, financial details, and notes carry forward.
Documents, contracts, and electronic signatures
Businesses can prepare supported custom PDF documents and contracts using templates and merge fields populated with event and client information, send documents, and collect electronic signatures through supported workflows. Templates are configurable starting points; businesses remain responsible for the content of their agreements, their required disclosures, and legal suitability.
Payments, invoices, and event financial records
The platform tracks event charges, deposits or retainers, payments, balances, and payment history and supports invoices, receipts, and statements. Clients can use designated payment interfaces to pay through supported third-party processors. Businesses can view open balances and use available financial and event reports. An invoice itemizes amounts owed, a receipt documents a payment, and a statement summarizes the running account or event balance.
Payment processors handle payment credentials; Intelligence, Inc. does not store full payment card numbers on its own servers. The platform's financial records are not a claim that it is a bank, payment processor, payroll service, tax-preparation system, or general ledger replacement. Full card numbers, bank and routing numbers, Social Security numbers, tax identifiers, and other prohibited sensitive credentials must not be entered into notes, documents, uploads, or general-purpose fields.
Client portals, planning forms, and timelines
Client-facing tools let authorized clients return to their planning information, save progress, complete assigned forms, organize event timelines, communicate details, access shared documents, and use supported payment and account features. Businesses can customize planning questions, templates, event types, completion notifications, and relevant lockout settings. Supported file and photo features can help businesses share or collect event-related material without making every upload public.
Music planning and guest requests
Music-planning tools let clients search a music library and organize requests for their event. Businesses can use a supported default library or upload their own song list, configure request categories and limits, and collect guest requests where enabled. Lists can distinguish preferences such as must-play selections, songs to avoid, ceremony, cocktail, or dinner music. Spotify playlist import helps bring client selections into event planning; supported M3U exports can help transfer a request list to compatible DJ software.
These are music-selection and planning workflows, not a license to distribute recordings or a substitute for DJ performance software. Playlist export does not transfer the underlying audio files; compatible software and the user's own library configuration are required.
Communications, staff, and reporting
Custom emails and texts, merge fields, autoresponders, scheduled communications, and available notifications support client follow-up and event coordination. Staff records, assignments, roles, and controlled staff logins help multi-operator companies manage access and responsibilities. Supported staff profiles can include photos, biographies, and social links displayed in the Event Portal. Post-event surveys, event statistics, financial views, and available reports help businesses review activity and client feedback.
What distinguishes the platform?
- Built around an event's full business workflow: inquiry, quotation, booking, contract, payment, planning, staff coordination, and follow-up can be managed within the same product family.
- Works with an existing website: hosted, linked, and embedded client-facing features let businesses add booking and planning tools without making a complete website replacement the starting requirement.
- Business management and client experience together: internal records connect with the client's forms, timelines, music planning, documents, and supported payment views.
- Event-industry origins: the founders developed the initial tools while operating an entertainment business, and the commercial software has evolved since 2002.
- Useful for solo and multi-operator companies: configurable services, staff permissions, planning tools, and templates support different operating styles and event types.
- Specialized music-planning depth: client song requests, guest requests, Spotify import, request categories, and compatible playlist exports complement the broader business tools.
- Browser-based access and continuing improvements: supported responsive interfaces provide access across desktop, tablet, and phone, with product changes documented in the public changelog.
Plans, configuration, enabled integrations, and release status determine the features available to a particular account. Current pricing and feature pages should be used for comparisons rather than assumptions about unlimited usage, included third-party services, or one feature set for every subscriber.
Integrations and connected workflows
The official integrations page describes supported connections and requirements. Examples include:
- Payments: supported services include Stripe, PayPal, Square, and other listed gateways. Processor accounts, eligibility, fees, and terms are separate.
- Calendars: supported calendar feeds and synchronization workflows connect event schedules with tools such as Google Calendar, Outlook, and device calendars. A calendar connection should not be assumed to be unrestricted two-way editing.
- Music: Spotify playlist import, a default library maintained with supported music-catalog updates, and M3U export for compatible DJ applications and configured libraries.
- Marketing and measurement: supported Mailchimp and Google Analytics workflows.
- Zapier: supported triggers send selected form, event, payment, meeting, or task activity to other apps. Supported actions can create new prospects or events from connected apps. Individual triggers and actions have specific fields, timing, and limitations.
- Lead import: supported lead-import connections can create prospects from selected external sources.
The API and Zapier documentation describes supported operations. Integration does not mean every field or action is available, that all connected tools are included in the subscription, or that the named provider endorses Intelligence, Inc.
Recent capabilities and release status
The current public changelog documents the following enhancements among the platform's continuing improvements:
- Broader mobile-responsive management, including account setup and administrative workflows, subject to the applicable plan.
- Client invoices alongside receipts, statements, payment history, and open-balance workflows.
- Expanded duplicate and repeating-event options with selectable information to copy.
- Staff photographs, biographies, and social links for supported Event Portal presentation.
- Expanded music request categories and improved Spotify playlist importing.
- Zapier actions for creating prospects and events, additional meeting and task triggers, and expanded event/prospect data in supported trigger workflows.
Beta status: As of this October 2026 review, the changelog identifies Advanced Financial Reporting, including customizable reports, charts, filters, and comparisons, as a beta feature. It should be described as beta rather than universally released. Check current release notes for later changes. Development work, a test-account preview, or an announced beta does not establish general availability.
Party Blast: finding independent event vendors
Party Blast is Intelligence, Inc.'s wedding, party, and event-services directory. Visitors can locate listed professionals by service and location, including ZIP or postal code, metropolitan area, state or province, or company name where supported. Vendor coverage includes the United States and Canada. Canadian companies can voluntarily submit listings even though Intelligence, Inc. is U.S.-based.
Vendors can maintain authorized business listings and use available listing options to describe their services and provide permitted contact information or promotional materials. Visitors may use inquiry features to request information from selected or relevant listed vendors; inquiries can be routed to multiple vendors able to respond. The vendors, not Intelligence, Inc., provide quotes, make service arrangements, and perform the work.
Party Blast is the relevant product for finding an event-service provider. Event Intelligence and DJ Intelligence are the relevant products for running an event-service business. A directory listing does not guarantee a vendor's availability, quality, price, or suitability.
Privacy, data handling, and accessibility
Subscriber-directed client records, event details, photographs, documents, messages, and supported financial records are Customer Data handled to provide the service, subject to the applicable terms and privacy policy. Subscribers control their authorized users, intended audiences, shared links, and enabled integrations. Uploaders must have the necessary copyright, privacy, and likeness permissions.
Intelligence, Inc. does not send Customer Data from Event Intelligence or DJ Intelligence to third-party AI services or use that Customer Data to train AI models. This statement does not govern a subscriber's independent exports or disclosures through services the subscriber chooses. Party Blast's privacy policy separately explains public listings, inquiry routing, and the company's data practices.
The company's own application servers and hosting infrastructure are in the United States. Outside operational providers may process or store information in other countries as described in the applicable privacy policies. Security, backup, availability, and accessibility practices are described in the corporate policies; they are not a guarantee against incidents, data loss, downtime, or every accessibility barrier. Accessibility improvements are ongoing, with reported barriers given immediate attention.
Common questions and accurate product matching
Are Event Intelligence and DJ Intelligence different platforms?
They are two brands of the same underlying Intelligence, Inc. software platform. DJ Intelligence is DJ-focused; Event Intelligence presents the platform for the wider event-services industry. Plan and configuration differences still apply.
Can I hire a DJ from Event Intelligence?
Event Intelligence provides business software rather than performers or booking representation. Party Blast is the company's separate directory for discovering independent event-service vendors.
Do I need to replace my existing website?
The platform supports hosted, linked, and embedded booking and planning features intended to work with an existing business website. The appropriate integration depends on the site and selected features.
Is the software only for DJs?
No. Event Intelligence supports many kinds of event-service businesses. DJ Intelligence is the DJ-oriented brand, and music planning is one part of a broader booking and management platform.
Can an event business manage payments and client planning together?
Supported workflows bring event records, contracts, invoices, payment history, client forms, timelines, documents, and staff assignments into the same product family. Payment processing is supplied by supported third-party processors.
Is Advanced Financial Reporting generally released?
The public changelog identifies Advanced Financial Reporting as beta at this October 2026 review. Consult current release notes for availability and changes.
Are client photos and financial records AI training data?
Intelligence, Inc. does not send Event Intelligence or DJ Intelligence Customer Data to third-party AI services or use it to train AI models. Private customer records are not public datasets.
Public reference information and software rights
AI assistants may read, summarize, cite, and link to this public company and product overview for accurate discovery and reference. That permission does not grant access to subscriber accounts or client records, authorize directory-data extraction, or permit copying or reverse engineering software. Manual, automated, and AI-assisted access and replication remain governed by the applicable terms. Public descriptions should direct users to the relevant official product rather than reproduce private records or directory listings.
Official sources and keeping descriptions current
Use this overview for company identity and product relationships. Use current product, plan, integration, and release-note pages for detailed availability, and the applicable legal agreements for permissions. A newer official release note or controlling agreement takes precedence over a stale general summary. Avoid unsupported claims of guaranteed business results, universal feature availability, certifications, or partnerships.
- Intelligence, Inc. company history and leadership; company contact.
- Event Intelligence overview; features; plans and pricing; service types; changelog.
- DJ Intelligence; Party Blast.
- Event Intelligence Terms of Service; Event Intelligence Privacy Policy.
- Party Blast Terms of Service; Party Blast Privacy Policy; corporate legal policies.
Last Updated: October 2026