LocalBusinesses.ai
The AI Front Door for Local Business
Get found. Get trusted. Get chosen. Get business.
One business record can become the foundation for how a local business is represented, verified, discovered, published, and engaged with across the Local Internet.
- What is this?
- The AI front door for local business.
- Why should I care?
- It helps establish the information and presence customers need in order to discover and engage with your business.
- What should I do?
- Find your business, or add it free.
From Business Record to business
One record, then the trust, discovery and customer actions it is meant to lead to.
01 · Record
Create, claim or manage the authoritative record for the business.
- Business identity
- Locations
- Services
- Service areas
- Contact information
- Hours
- Alternate names
02 · Trust
Information can be reviewed and supported through the existing governance system. Records are described as Verified, Claimed or Listed — three different things, and not every business or every fact is verified.
- Independent review
- Verified, Claimed or Listed
- Reviewed services and service areas
- Sources required
- Payment never changes an outcome
03 · Discovery
Approved information can help a business appear across relevant Local Internet destinations and experiences.
- Local search
- Geographic experiences
- Marketplace surfaces
- Publications
- Offers
- Services and categories
04 · Commerce
What discovery is for: the actions a customer can actually take.
- Calls
- Website visits
- Directions
- Offers
- Referrals
- Promotions
- Bookings are not an operational feature.
- A website link appears on a Business Record only once the record is verified.
- Promotion eligibility is reviewed. Buying something does not create a status.
What do you want to do?
Each of these opens an existing part of The Local Core. Nothing here is a second version of an existing workflow.
Improve my business information
Manage the record you already control.
Needs a Business Record sign-in
Tell people what I provide
Propose services and service areas for independent review.
Needs a Business Record sign-in
See where my business appears
The destinations your record is published on.
Needs a Business Record sign-in
Promote my business
Promotions that sit on top of an approved record.
Needs a Business Record sign-in
See my results
Measurement of what your record is doing.
Needs a Business Record sign-in
Is your business ready to be discovered?
Discovery increasingly depends on structured, trustworthy information about four things:
Who you are
A recognised identity, with the names your business actually uses.
What you provide
Services and categories that have been proposed and reviewed.
Where you provide it
Locations and approved service areas, not vague coverage.
How customers interact
Ways to actually reach you: call, website, directions, offers.
The Local Core is building the infrastructure for maintaining and distributing those facts across local discovery experiences.
No claim is made here about how any external search engine, assistant or AI system chooses, ranks or cites a business. What this system does is keep one accurate, reviewed record and publish it where publication is approved.
One Business. One Record. Many Surfaces.
The same record, read by every layer. No copy is made on the way.
01 · Local Business
The business itself — the thing every other layer describes.
Browse Business Records02 · Business Record
One governed identity: name, locations, contact details, hours, alternate names.
What a Business Record is03 · Trust & Verification
Claims, service facts and changes are reviewed independently. Verified, Claimed and Listed stay separate states.
How review works04 · Local Discovery
Search, categories, services and geographic experiences all read the same record.
Search the network05 · Surfaces & Distribution
Approved publications on the destinations this network runs.
The surfaces06 · Customer Actions
Calls, website visits, directions, offers, referrals and promotions.
Browse current offers
A real Business Record in the running system
Not a mock-up. Everything below is read from the record as it stands, including the parts of it that are empty.
Reading the example Business Record…
The Local Business Stack
LocalBusinesses.ai is the business-facing entry point into a broader architecture being developed for local business identity, presence, discovery, engagement and operations.
LocalBusinesses.ai
The business-facing entry point into this architecture.
Operating now
LocalBusinessStack.com
The stack itself: identity, presence, discovery, engagement, operations.
Concept
TheLocalBusinessOS.com
The operating-system framing for a local business.
Concept
TheSMBOS.com
The same framing in small-and-medium-business words.
Concept
LocalBusinessesOS.com
A reserved alternative name for the same idea.
Concept
Only LocalBusinesses.ai is operating today. The others are architecture and brand concepts being developed — none of them is a product you can use, and none is presented here as one.
Powered by The Local Core
LocalBusinesses.ai is a business-owner front door into The Local Core.
The Local Core provides the underlying record, trust, discovery, publication and measurement infrastructure. This front door adds no second version of any of it.
- ClaimYourRecord.com
Find an existing record and start the claim.
- AddMyBusinessFree.com
Add a business free when no record exists.
- LocalInternetRegistry.com
See the governed graph of organizations and places.