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THE TENNESSEE SURFACEDiscover Tennessee through one connected local information surface.

One record. Many surfaces.

The network is a single chain, from the idea down to the individual business and back out across every place that business can appear.

One Business Record → many destinations

One source, many destinations. The record is stored once; every destination reads it rather than keeping a copy.

One Business Record
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Distribution

Marketplace network

  • 99+ marketplace nodes

Independent properties, kept separate from the shared record set.

Geographic discovery network

  • State IZ network
  • States
  • Counties
  • Cities
  • Categories

Reads the shared records directly.

State Surface network

  • 50 State Surfaces

Reads the shared records directly.

Media and content surfaces

  • Information
  • Featured
  • Savings
  • Reviews
  • Happenings

Publication decided per surface.

Discovery journey

  • Visible
  • Discovered
  • Found
  • Experienced

Outcomes, not infrastructure.

AI and API

  • Assistants
  • Agents
  • Search
  • APIs
  • Structured data

Structured data is live today; a public API is not built yet.

The life of a record

Create, structure, activate, distribute, be found, and get results.

  1. Step 1

    Create Business Record

    One canonical record for the business.

  2. Step 2

    Structure and enrich

    Locations, categories, hours, products, services.

  3. Step 3

    Activate presence

    Claim it, verify it, decide what is shown.

  4. Step 4

    Distribute

    Eligibility and publication carry it to surfaces.

  5. Step 5

    AI, search and discovery

    Structured, readable by people and machines.

  6. Step 6

    Business outcomes

    Visible, discovered, found, experienced.

Infrastructure, destinations and outcomes

These are three different kinds of thing, not one flat list of layers.

Infrastructure

What the system is.

  1. 1.Record
  2. 2.Data
  3. 3.Presence
  4. 4.Distribution
  5. 5.AI

Distribution destinations

Where the record goes.

  1. 1.Marketplaces
  2. 2.Geographic surfaces
  3. 3.Media surfaces
  4. 4.APIs
  5. 5.AI and agents

Outcomes

What the business gets.

  1. 1.Visible
  2. 2.Discovered
  3. 3.Found
  4. 4.Experienced

How a destination becomes live

A planned destination follows the same path whatever kind it is. The first four steps already exist for the surfaces inside this application; the middle steps are what each new outside destination needs before it can honestly be shown as active.

  1. 1Canonical Business Recordbuilt todayThe single stored record — identity, locations, categories, content.
  2. 2Eligibilitybuilt todayShared rules decide whether the destination may carry the record.
  3. 3Transformation / destination mappingneeded per destinationMap record fields to the shape the destination expects.
  4. 4Publishneeded per destinationSend the mapped record and store the result against the destination.
  5. 5Destination URL / IDneeded per destinationKeep the identifier the destination returns, so the record can be found again.
  6. 6Verificationneeded per destinationRe-read the destination and confirm the record is really there.
  7. 7Syncneeded per destinationRe-send changes when the record changes, and record the sync outcome.
  8. 8Statusbuilt todayReport Active, Available, Planned or Not eligible from the stored result.

The chain

  1. 01TheLocalInternet.comThe flagship. The whole idea.
  2. 02TheLocalSurfaces.comEvery surface type in the network.
  3. 03TheUSASurfaces.comThe national gateway to the states.
  4. 0450 State SurfacesOne template, fifty state domains.
  5. 05CountiesCounty-level discovery inside a state.
  6. 06CitiesCommunities inside a county.
  7. 07CategoriesWhat people are actually looking for.
  8. 08Business RecordsStored once. Never duplicated.
  9. 09Many surfacesInformation, featured, savings, reviews, happenings.

Visible → Discovered → Found → Experienced

The second dimension: how one Business Record is met by a person, a search engine or an AI agent.

Start

One Business Record

Stored once. Never duplicated.

Then

Visible

Structured information is available across the appropriate digital surfaces.

Then

Discovered

People, search engines, AI assistants and agents can discover relevant businesses, places and information.

Then

Found

The person or system reaches the specific business, place, organization, event or information they need.

Then

Experienced

Discovery becomes an interaction with the business, place, organization, event or community.

Where — geography

  1. The Local Internet
  2. USA
  3. 50 State Surfaces
  4. Counties
  5. Cities
  6. Businesses, places, organizations

How — discovery

  1. Business Record
  2. Visible
  3. Discovered
  4. Found
  5. Experienced

How it is built

One application

Every domain in the network runs the same application. Nothing is cloned per state.

One shared record set

Businesses, locations, categories, information, offers, events and reviews exist once.

The hostname decides

The address a visitor arrives on determines which state, scope and branding load.

State data stays isolated

A state surface shows only its own geography and records. No cross-state leakage.

50 states. 50 digital surfaces. One connected system.

50 state domains run from this one system, each showing only its own state.

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