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Experiment 003Architecture

LocalWebMCP

Stage
Concept / Prototype
Last updated
2026-07-30

Research question

Can AI agents query structured local information through a standardized access layer?

Hypothesis

A tool surface built around entity, geography and constraint fits agent behaviour better than a search box does.

Hypothesis — not a conclusion

Why it matters

If agents become significant consumers of local information, the access layer decides what they can read, how fresh it is and whether the source is attributed.

Architecture

  1. AI / Agent
  2. MCP access layer
  3. Local Graph
  4. Business Records
  5. Entities

Prototypes

What we're testing

  • That agent queries are mostly scoped by place, category and constraint
  • That a small tool surface covers most local agent tasks
  • That attribution can be carried through every response

Observations

Access design turns out to be a product decision — what an agent may read, how often, and with what attribution shapes the whole layer.

What we learned

Testing has not yet produced documented results. No public MCP service exists yet.

What would change our mind?

  • Agents prefer general web sources over a specialized layer
  • Standard schemas already cover the need
  • Serving cost outweighs the retrieval benefit

Open questions

  • What is the right unit of response for an agent?
  • How should rate, cost and attribution be handled together?

Next experiment

Draft a tool surface for entity lookup, geographic scoping and record retrieval, then write example agent transcripts against it.

Experiment 004Business Record Agent
Method

Question → Hypothesis → Prototype → Observation → Evidence → Conclusion. We never present a hypothesis as a conclusion.