Margaret is on her way to work, walking instead of flying today so she can drink her coffee without spilling it, when she sees the cryptid. She's a truly far-out one, no limbs to speak of, just a long snaky body with a mirror for a face. Margaret smiles at her and goes to walk on by, but the cryptid slithers right at her all of a sudden and--hits?--Margaret with the giant mirror. Except she doesn't experience getting whacked with a sheet of glass.
The danger sense will hopefully be irrelevant and the short-range precognition works best on moving objects, but if she immerses herself in a dataset she'll start getting prophesies about relevant events far away or in the future, which will be useful if acted on. Also she's pretty good at regular data analysis.
That seems the best place to start her, then. It'll be a learning curve, but - if nothing else, she'll provide an outside perspective.
That's fine by her! Analyzing large datasets is fun. She stares at computer screens and takes paper notes and when she wants notes in more than two dimensions she materialises delicate structures of silver wire and fiddles with them.
"Your abilities are interesting," he says at length, after she's gotten through quite a lot of data.