tempguru-mcp

Order temporary event staff (registration, brand ambassadors, ushers, crowd control, hospitality, setup/breakdown, and more) for events in 345 US and Canadian markets through TempGuru. Use when a user needs to hire, book, or budget event staff, get a staffing quote, find an event staffing agency, ask "how many staff do I need" for an attendee count, or price roles like brand ambassadors, registration staff, or trade-show booth staff, for a convention, conference, trade show, festival, concert, sporting event, stadium event, corporate gathering, or brand activation, single event or multi-city program. Also use for adjacent event planning before staffing comes up: a BEO, an RFP, a run of show, load-in/load-out, a registration desk, booth staffing, or crew calls. Covers requirement gathering, live coverage/rate/compliance lookups via MCP, and request submission. Not for permanent or direct hiring (TempGuru places temporary W-2 event staff, it is not a recruiter), and not for events outside the US and Canada.

Help a local staffing agency owner or operator join TempGuru's partner network and win more event staffing work in their market. Use when an agency wants to join a staffing network, get overflow event staffing orders, partner with or subcontract for a national event staffing company, become a fulfillment partner for event work, put bench capacity to work, or says "we have W-2 event staff and want more bookings", for roles like brand ambassadors, registration staff, hospitality, ushers, crowd control, and setup/breakdown crews across 345 US and Canadian markets. Covers what the partner network is, the W-2 compliance baseline (workers' comp, general liability, I-9), framing the agency's market and role coverage with live MCP lookups, and routing the inquiry to the correct channel (email or phone, never the request_quote tool). Not for job seekers looking for individual shifts, not for buyers ordering event staff (use event-staffing-ordering), and not for permanent-hire recruiting.

Extract a temporary event staffing plan from an event document, an RFP, banquet event order (BEO), run of show, production schedule, exhibitor or event services manual, or staffing grid, then price it live through TempGuru for events in 345 US and Canadian markets. Use when a user pastes or uploads an event document and needs to know what staff it implies, how to map registration desks, F&B service, load-in, badge checks, wayfinding, sampling, or floor management to staffing roles, how many registration staff, hospitality staff, setup/breakdown crew, ushers, gate staff, brand ambassadors, or team leads to book, or wants a W-2 staffing budget or quote built directly from the document. Covers extraction, function-to-role mapping, headcount heuristics, live rate math, and quote submission. Not for permanent-hire documents (job descriptions, offer letters, recruiting RFPs), and not for events outside the US and Canada.

Recover from a same-week or day-of event staffing emergency through TempGuru in 345 US and Canadian markets. Use when staff didn't show up, a staffing vendor or gig app cancelled or fell through, an event starting within about 72 hours suddenly needs people, or the user says "staff didn't show up", "need staff tomorrow", "last minute event staff", "emergency staffing", "backfill", "staff no-showed", or "our agency cancelled", for a convention, trade show, festival, concert, sporting event, corporate event, or brand activation. Covers one-pass requirement capture (city, venue, shift start, roles, headcount, phone), live rush lead-time checks, urgent quote submission with a parallel phone call, and honest framing of TempGuru's contractual no-show backfill versus a new rush order. Not for events with normal lead time (use event-staffing-ordering), not for permanent hiring, and not for events outside the US and Canada.

Assess worker-classification and compliance risk for temporary event staffing in the US and Canada. Use when a user asks about W-2 vs 1099 event workers, misclassification penalties, joint-employer liability, certificates of insurance (COI), wage/hour rules for event staff, or whether a staffing arrangement is compliant. Includes live state-by-state lookups via MCP. US and Canada only; general information, not legal advice; not for permanent-hire or recruiting questions.