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THE LOCAL COREThe shared infrastructure behind The Local Internet.

The Local Core · System overview

One shared core behind every local site

Each record is held once, earns trust through review by a separate account, connects to approved places, and appears only where a destination has approved it.

Validated facts

126

Records currently classified as approved U.S. states, counties and cities (non-U.S. records excluded)

3

verified business records (account-separated review)

3

Approved relationships in the graph

Read live using the same rules as any visitor. Demonstration records excluded. No visit, audience or engagement figures are shown because they are not validated.

See the Core in Action

Follow a real business record through identity, places, verification, governance, distribution, and visibility.

What each status means

Implemented
Working with real records and validated behaviour.
Pilot
Working but limited, or still under validation.
Planned
Proposed or not yet built. Not operational.
Blocked
Cannot proceed until a named prerequisite is met.

Infrastructure

  • Identity

    Implemented

    One record and one public reference per entity.

    Each business, organization and place is held once.

  • Registry

    Implemented

    Looks up records by their public reference.

    Public registry and Open Records pages are live.

  • Graph

    Implemented

    Approved relationships between records and places.

    Only approved relationships are public.

  • Dedicated front doors on their own domains

    Planned

    Domain ownership is not yet confirmed.

Trust and Geography

  • Places

    Implemented

    The geography every record attaches to.

    Census-based states, counties and cities; uncertain places stay Pending for review.

  • Verification

    Implemented

    How a record earns trust.

    Claims are approved by a different account; nobody approves their own.

Distribution

  • Distribution

    Pilot

    Places an approved record on a specific destination.

    Destination-specific approval is live; the full publishing eligibility rule is still under validation.

  • Surfaces

    Implemented

    The sites where approved records appear.

    Local, state and USA surfaces show only approved placements.

  • Automatic placement withdrawal

    Blocked

    Awaits validation in a separate test environment before any production use.

Discovery and Intelligence

  • Search

    Implemented

    Finds approved records across the network.

    Public search reads only records visitors are allowed to see.

  • Owner Intelligence

    Pilot

    Rule-based guidance for a business owner about their own record.

    Private to the owner; deterministic rules over trusted facts, no generated claims. A pilot of owner-facing insights only — not the broader Local Intelligence platform, which is not yet operational.

  • Answers

    Planned

    No answering feature exists today.

Measurement

  • Visibility

    Pilot

    What happened after a record appeared.

    Actions are recorded but totals are not validated; no audience or engagement figures are published.

  • Validated audience and engagement reporting

    Planned

    No audience or engagement figures are published until they are validated.