Research / 08 Areas
What We're Exploring
Each area starts with a question we cannot yet answer. The domains listed are experimental concepts, not finished products.
01Business Records
What if every business had an authoritative, structured digital record independent of its website?
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- Business identity
- Business Record architecture
- Claiming
- Verification
- Structured business information
- Record lifecycle
- Business Record scoring
- Record distribution
Concept domains
Experimental concepts. Availability and functionality vary.
02The Local Graph
What if local information was connected by relationships rather than isolated pages?
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- Entity relationships
- Businesses
- People
- Places
- Services
- Products
- Events
- Offers
- Reviews
- Stories
- Geography
Relationships
BusinessLocationCityServicePersonEventOfferReviewStory
03AI Discovery
How will AI discover local businesses?
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- AI search
- Entity retrieval
- Structured information
- Local context
- Knowledge graphs
- AI recommendations
- Citation readiness
- Business visibility
Concept domains
Experimental concepts. Availability and functionality vary.
04Citable Local Information
What makes local information citable by AI?
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- Source authority
- Structured facts
- Entity identity
- Freshness
- Verification
- Provenance
- Citation surfaces
- Retrievable content
Concept domains
Experimental concepts. Availability and functionality vary.
05Agentic Local Internet
What happens when AI agents become local consumers?
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- Find businesses
- Compare services
- Discover events
- Find offers
- Check business information
- Research locations
- Interact with businesses
- Perform local tasks
Concept domains
Experimental concepts. Availability and functionality vary.
06MCP & Machine Access
What if AI could query the local web directly?
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- Machine-readable local information
- Entity retrieval
- Business Records
- Geographic queries
- Service discovery
- Local search tools
- Agent interfaces
- AI / Agent
- Local Web MCP
- Local Graph
- Business Records
- Local Entities
07Geographic Intelligence
What if geography were native to the information architecture?
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- Geographic relationships as context for people and machines
- Nation, state, county and city layers
- Place-scoped entity retrieval
Concept domains
Experimental concepts. Availability and functionality vary.
- USA
- State
- County
- City
- Entity
08Internet of Record
What if the Internet had a record layer?
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- Today: page → website → search result
- Possible future: entity → record → graph → source → AI → action
- Thought leadership, not an established technical standard
Concept domains
Experimental concepts. Availability and functionality vary.
- Entity
- Record
- Graph
- Source
- AI
- Action