Observed arrival · 2026-09-17
PlaceDatum, a business directory that refuses to guess
PlaceDatum indexes local businesses from their own websites and publishes the facts, dates, policies, and machine-readable records it finds.
Field notes
PlaceDatum builds listings by reading business websites rather than accepting submitted descriptions, and it records the date of each reading. The page explicitly preserves policies word for word and labels absent facts as unavailable on the pages checked. Its public interface includes a records endpoint, OpenAPI documentation, MCP tools, and an llms.txt summary. The Melbourne instance currently shows zero businesses, making this both a usable specification and a project worth checking again as coverage develops.
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