What I'm Building
A connected architecture, not a collection of websites.
The Local Internet is an exploration of what happens when local information, business identity, digital surfaces and AI access are designed as one connected system instead of thousands of disconnected ones.
The Components
The vision
The Local Internet
A connected Internet architecture for local information, businesses, places and discovery.
TheLocalInternet.comThe front door
The Local Start
The universal starting point for exploring The Local Internet Network.
TheLocalStart.comThe network
The Local Grid
The interconnected map of geographic properties, marketplaces, records, surfaces and infrastructure.
TheLocalGrid.comThe architecture
The Local Internet Stack
The underlying record, knowledge, visibility, citation, surface and agent infrastructure.
TheLocalInternetStack.comThe business identity model
One Business Record
One structured business record capable of supporting many discovery experiences.
OneBusinessRecord.comThe experiences
The Local Surfaces
Specialized digital experiences built around different ways people discover and interact with local information.
TheLocalSurfaces.com
The Model
One Record. Many Surfaces.
Instead of treating every website as an isolated destination, I'm exploring an architecture where structured business information can support many specialized digital experiences.
One Business Record
- Informed
- Organized
- Browsed
- Storefronts
- Reviewed
- Happenings
- Savings
- Featured
- Promoted
- Advertised
- Flow
Surface properties
The Local Internet Network
Broader than a set of sites
Geographic Network
USA → State → Region → City → Local
Connected Surface Network
Information → Discovery → Storefronts → Reviews → Events → Savings → Media → Promotion
Existing Marketplace Network
100+ independently deployed marketplace and discovery properties
Business Record Infrastructure
Structured identity and information
AI / Search Infrastructure
Machine-readable discovery, APIs, graph and agent-oriented architecture
Geographic Network
National architecture that can become increasingly local.
Geography is predictable, and predictability is what makes a namespace traversable by both people and machines.
- 01USA
- 02State
- 03Region / County
- 04City
- 05Community
Origins
From Marketplaces to Infrastructure
This work did not begin with the Surface architecture. It grew out of an existing network of more than 100 marketplace and discovery properties, deployed one at a time.
The marketplace network was deployed independently over many years. Those properties are separate from the newer shared-data Surface architecture, and they do not all operate from the centralized Business Record infrastructure today.
Scale
2,900+
Strategic domains
100+
Marketplace nodes
7M+
Existing listings
50-state
Namespace and geographic architecture
Multiple
Deployed Local and USA surfaces
These figures are indicators of the project's scope drawn from internal inventories and operating records. They are not valuation, revenue or market-share claims, and they change as assets and deployments evolve.
The Thesis
Domains Are the Namespace. Infrastructure Makes Them Useful.
A domain by itself is an address. A coordinated namespace combined with shared records, data, software, APIs, knowledge relationships and AI-assisted deployment can become something much larger. The portfolio is the starting material — not the finished product.
- 01Strategic Namespace
- 02Structured Records
- 03Shared Data
- 04Platform / API / Graph
- 05Digital Surfaces
- 06Search + AI + Human Discovery
The Story So Far
- 01Marketplace Network
- 02Strategic Namespace
- 03Business Records
- 04Shared Infrastructure
- 05Connected Surfaces
- 06The Local Grid
- 07The Local Internet
From individual marketplaces to an interconnected local Internet architecture.
Explore the Project
Start
Vision
Network
Architecture
Business Record
Surfaces
Infrastructure
Company
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