What Comes After the Web Page?
The web was built around pages.
AI increasingly operates around entities, records, relationships, retrieval, context and actions.
Local Internet Labs is exploring what that transition could mean for local businesses, places, information and commerce.
- Web page
- Entity
- Record
- Graph
- Context
- AI
- Agent
- Action
What Should the Local Internet Look Like in the Age of AI?
A place where ambitious ideas can be explored, prototyped, tested and documented before they become commercial products or infrastructure.
Six Open Questions
These are research questions, not conclusions. Each one links to the experiment or program where it is being explored.
Can a Business Record become more important than a business webpage?
Experiment 001 →Can millions of existing listings progressively become structured, claimable and verifiable information?
From Listings to Records →Can geography become native context for AI?
Experiment 007 →Can local information become reliably retrievable and citable?
Experiment 006 →Can AI agents query and act on a structured local web?
Experiment 003 →Can strategic domains become functional nodes in an AI-native information network?
Domains as Nodes →Experiment Status
All experiments →One Business Record
- Research area
- Business Records
- Last updated
- 2026-09-02
- Prototype
- OneBusinessRecord.com
- Next step
- Define a minimum record schema and render the same record across a listing, a profile page and a machine response.
The Local Graph
- Research area
- The Local Graph
- Last updated
- 2026-08-14
- Prototype
- TheLocalGraph.com
- Next step
- Model a single city as a connected graph and compare retrieval against flat listing data.
LocalWebMCP
- Research area
- MCP & Machine Access
- Last updated
- 2026-07-30
- Prototype
- LocalWebMCP.com
- Next step
- Draft a tool surface for entity lookup, geographic scoping and record retrieval, then write example agent transcripts against it.
Business Record Agent
- Research area
- Agentic Local Internet
- Last updated
- 2026-07-18
- Prototype
- BusinessRecordAgent.com
- Next step
- Prototype agent tasks that read a record and answer questions a website cannot.
AI Visibility
- Research area
- AI Discovery
- Last updated
- 2026-06-30
- Prototype
- BusinessRecordScore.com
- Next step
- Enumerate the surfaces and test whether a per-surface measure can be observed consistently.
Citable Local
- Research area
- Citable Local Information
- Last updated
- 2026-07-11
- Prototype
- CitableEngine.com
- Next step
- Publish identical facts in structured and unstructured form and observe retrieval behaviour.
Geographic Intelligence
- Research area
- Geographic Intelligence
- Last updated
- 2026-06-19
- Prototype
- USAizz.com
- Next step
- Route entity retrieval through the explicit hierarchy and compare against filtered retrieval.
Internet of Record
- Research area
- Internet of Record
- Last updated
- 2026-05-30
- Prototype
- InternetOfRecord.com
- Next step
- Write the architecture down in full and test whether each experiment maps to a component of it.
Eight Parts of One Architecture
These are not eight unrelated projects. Each experiment tests a different layer of the same proposed architecture.
- EXP 001One Business RecordPrototype
- EXP 002The Local GraphPrototype
- EXP 003LocalWebMCPArchitecture
- EXP 004Business Record AgentArchitecture
- EXP 005AI VisibilityQuestion
- EXP 006Citable LocalQuestion
- EXP 007Geographic IntelligencePrototype
- EXP 008Internet of RecordQuestion
Do These Experiments Converge Into an AI-Native Local Internet?
What We’re Exploring
What if every business had an authoritative, structured digital record independent of its website?
What if local information was connected by relationships rather than isolated pages?
How will AI discover local businesses?
What makes local information citable by AI?
What happens when AI agents become local consumers?
What if AI could query the local web directly?
What if geography were native to the information architecture?
What if the Internet had a record layer?
From Listings to Records
What Could 7 Million Self-Placed Listings Become?
These are not 7 million verified Business Records.
The question is what could happen if that information progressively became more structured, claimable, verifiable, connected and machine-readable. None of these problems are solved.
See the research pipeline →- 7M+ self-placed listingsWhat is actually in the data?
- NormalizeWhat information can be normalized?
- Entity resolutionHow accurately can duplicate entities be resolved?
- StructureWhat structure is worth imposing before verification?
- ClaimWhat information requires owner verification?
- VerifyWhat makes a Business Record authoritative?
- EnrichWhat information should AI be allowed to infer?
- Business RecordHow should provenance be recorded?
- Local GraphHow should conflicting information be handled?
- Local surfacesHow should freshness be measured?
- Search + AI + agentsWhat should remain human-controlled?
A Real Network to Experiment With
Local Internet Holdings already operates a network of marketplace and local discovery properties. That existing network creates a potential testbed for exploring structured listings, Business Records, entity relationships, geographic discovery, publishing and machine-readable local information.
This describes a potential experimental environment. It does not claim experiments have been run across the network.
Local Entity → Action
The layers each experiment is testing, and the prototypes exploring them.
- 01 — Local entity
- 02 — Business Record
- 03 — Local Graph
- 04 — Citable information
- 05 — Visibility
- 06 — Machine access / MCP
- 07 — AI agent
- 08 — Action
Domains as Nodes
Can strategically organized domains become functional endpoints inside a larger information architecture?
Domain → Node → Network → Infrastructure
2,900+ strategic domains is an owner-provided portfolio metric. It does not imply every domain is deployed or in use.
- Domain
- Specialized purpose
- Structured data
- Shared entity model
- Connected graph
- Network node
- Human + machine experience
From Idea to Prototype
Full gallery →One structured, claimable record as the source of truth for a business.
The operating layer for creating, updating and distributing a record.
An agent that reads and acts on the authoritative record behind a business.
A way to describe how complete, current and retrievable a record is.
Local entities connected by relationships instead of isolated pages.
A machine access layer for querying structured local information.
Building the Local Internet in Public
- Research Notes2026-09-02
What Comes After the Web Page?
- Business Records2026-08-21
Why Every Business May Eventually Need a Business Record
- Business Records2026-07-24
From Listings to Records
- Geography2026-07-09
Why Geography Matters to AI
- Citations2026-06-27
Can Local Information Become Citable Infrastructure?
- Agents2026-08-07
The Local Web Was Built for Browsers. What Happens When Agents Arrive?
Question → Architecture → Prototype → Experiment → Learn → Build → Deploy
Start with a fundamental question.
Design a potential system.
Make the idea visible.
Test assumptions.
Document what works and what doesn't.
Develop promising concepts further.
Move mature ideas into the broader Local Internet ecosystem.
How We Think
- 01Separate hypothesis from evidence.
- 02Prototype before overbuilding.
- 03Make architecture visible.
- 04Document what doesn't work.
- 05Keep humans in control of authoritative business information.
- 06Distinguish structured facts from AI inference.
- 07Treat geography as context, not just navigation.
- 08Build for people and machines.
- 09Don't confuse deployment with validation.
- 10Ask better questions before claiming answers.
From Experiment to Application
- Local Internet LabsResearch → Experiment → Prototype
- Validated conceptEvidence, not enthusiasm
- Local Internet GroupStrategy → Technology → Services → Implementation
- The Local Internet ecosystem
- Labs asks the questions.
- Prototypes make the ideas visible.
- Evidence determines what deserves to move forward.
- Local Internet Group can help translate mature concepts into applications and services.
Not every Labs experiment becomes a Group offering.
LocalInternetGroup.com ↗- 01
The page will not disappear, but the record may become more important.
- 02
Local information needs identity.
- 03
Identity needs structure.
- 04
Structure enables relationships.
- 05
Relationships create context.
- 06
Context improves discovery.
The Local Internet Isn’t Finished.
Neither Are the Questions.
We’re exploring how records, graphs, geography, publishing, AI and agents could reshape local information.
One question. One experiment. One prototype at a time.
Enter Local Internet Labs