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THE LOCAL COREThe shared infrastructure behind The Local Internet.

One Business → One Record → One Grid → One Local Internet

One Record.
Everywhere Local.

OneLocalGrid connects structured Business Records to a growing network of geographic, marketplace, information, discovery and AI-ready surfaces.

Instead of managing disconnected profiles across the internet, businesses can begin with one structured record designed to move across a connected local network.

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Business Record

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The problem

Local presence is fragmented.

Businesses are represented across many disconnected websites, directories, marketplaces, search systems, social platforms and emerging AI discovery experiences. Information becomes duplicated, inconsistent and difficult to manage.

Hundreds of disconnected dots

One Business Record

Connected grid

Start with the record, then distribute the record.

OneLocalGrid introduces a different model. Rather than rebuilding a business profile for every destination, the structured record is authored once and is designed to be represented consistently across the surfaces that reference it.

How it works

One business becomes one grid.

  1. Step 1

    One business

    A real business exists in the physical world.

  2. Step 2

    One Business Record

    A structured record represents the business digitally.

    • Identity
    • Location
    • Contact information
    • Categories
    • Products
    • Services
    • Hours
    • Media
    • Offers
    • Events
    • Reviews
    • Attributes
    • Verification
    • Ownership
    • Structured data

  3. Step 3

    One Local Grid

    The record can power multiple types of surfaces.

    Geographic surfaces

    • National
    • State
    • Region
    • County
    • City
    • Community

    Marketplace surfaces

    • Business directories
    • Vertical marketplaces
    • Service marketplaces
    • Local marketplaces

    Information surfaces

    • Local information
    • Business information
    • Reviews
    • Savings
    • Events
    • Happenings
    • Featured businesses
    • Storefronts

    Discovery surfaces

    • Local search
    • Category discovery
    • Geographic discovery
    • Business discovery

    AI surfaces

    • AI discovery
    • AI visibility
    • Citation surfaces
    • Knowledge systems
    • Agent discovery

  4. Step 4

    One Local Internet

    Thousands of surfaces can begin with one record.

One record, many surfaces

Publish once. Expand everywhere.

OneLocalGrid is designed around the idea that a structured Business Record can become the source for many different local digital experiences.

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Business Record

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The grid

A network built in layers

01Business Record layer
02Data + knowledge layer
03Geographic grid
04Marketplace network
05Information + media surfaces
06Search + discovery
07AI + agent discovery
08Local experiences

One record can participate across the entire stack.

Geographic grid

The same record, at every geographic level.

The same Business Record architecture can be represented at multiple geographic levels without creating an entirely separate identity for the business at every layer.

USA
50 states
Regions
Counties
Cities
Communities

Marketplace grid

One Grid. Many Marketplaces.

Local Internet Holdings has already developed a large marketplace network spanning business categories, geographic markets and different types of local information.

99+

Deployed marketplace nodes

7,000,000+

Existing listings — not Business Records

Existing listingsListing recordsClaimed businessesVerified Business RecordsDistributed local presence

From listings to records

The Internet has listings. The Grid needs records.

OneLocalGrid represents the distribution network connecting structured records with digital surfaces.

  1. 7,000,000+ existing listings
  2. Structured listing records
  3. Claimed businesses
  4. Verified Business Records
  5. Presence
  6. Visibility
  7. Discovery
  8. Local experiences

AI discovery

Built for the next discovery layer.

Local discovery is expanding beyond traditional websites and search engines. Businesses increasingly need structured information that can be understood by many different systems.

  • Search engines
  • AI assistants
  • Agents
  • Knowledge systems
  • Recommendation engines
  • Local discovery applications
  • Citation systems

OneLocalGrid is positioned as infrastructure designed to make structured local information available across many possible discovery environments. We make no claim that any specific AI platform consumes this data today.

One business

One Business Record

One Local Grid

One Local Internet

Complex infrastructure. Simple idea.

Connect the ecosystem

Where OneLocalGrid sits.

OneBusinessRecord is a single business's canonical record. TheLocalGrid is the underlying network and infrastructure. OneLocalGrid is the unified distribution experience.

The Grid is not a domain list.

A list of addresses cannot decide where a business belongs. The Grid is the set of relationships that connect a record to the places it qualifies for — and, in time, to the way information is delivered there.

What the Grid relates

  • BusinessesCurrent
  • Business RecordsCurrent
  • LocationsCurrent
  • GeographiesCurrent
  • CategoriesCurrent
  • ContentCurrent
  • DestinationsCurrent
  • EligibilityCurrent
  • PublicationCurrent
  • PromotionCurrent
  • Delivery methodFuture
  • Integration capabilityFuture
One business to three delivery models
  1. ONE BUSINESS

    The business as it exists in the real world.

  2. ONE BUSINESS RECORD

    The single authoritative record.

  3. ONE LOCAL PLATFORM

    Manage, verify, publish, distribute.

  4. ONE LOCAL GRID

    Geography, categories, eligibility, destinations.

  5. ONE LOCAL NETWORK

    Every participant in the network.

  • Independent
    INDEPENDENT MARKETPLACES
    • Own database
    • Own listings
  • Future Integration
    FUTURE INTEGRATIONS
    • API / connector
    • Own database
  • Available
    CONNECTED SURFACES
    • Shared record
    • Dynamic view

Where this sits

  1. Layer 1
    OneBusinessRecord.com

    The authoritative business object.

  2. Layer 2
    OneLocalPlatform.com

    The management and control plane.

  3. Layer 3
    OneLocalGrid.com

    Relationship and routing architecture.

  4. Layer 4
    OneLocalNetwork.com

    The destination network.

  5. Layer 5
    LocalInternetAPI.com

    Future integration interface.

One Business.
One Record.
One Grid.
One Local Internet.

Local information doesn't have to remain fragmented across thousands of disconnected destinations. It can begin with a structured record and expand through a connected grid of local digital experiences.

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One Local Grid

One Record. Everywhere Local.

Part of the Local Internet Holdings architecture.