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Good question - we actually did a benchmark recently and even with maps/search grounding it is pretty suboptimal from a end user's perspective https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

That is a very interesting insight and thanks for sharing it. We realize that some countries might be having poor maps data, and that example is very helpful - we will take a look

Thanks - we will keep building!

There is a a lot of data publicly available on the web, it can be analyzed with the derived signals stored and then re-checked periodically.

Completely agree - we have been in constant communication with them

Fair point on the repo - cli is in the plans and coming. We've been focused on the API

thanks, looking forward to that!

No, we are not - it is against Google's the terms of service. open_closed_status is an indicator showing if there are sufficient evidences of the closure. If place doesn't exist, t…

It doesn't fit into our plans of building this

Fair point - one doesn't instantaneously dethrone Google three months after starting. Here are some benefits of our API. Google's api is recall focused as any search - it shows you…

We have models which take all of this into account when producing the verdict. For enterprise clients we emit a calibrated confidence score. With public api we decided to start sim…

That is our vision of where we want to be. There is a lot of information about the places on the public web which you analyze and cross-reference. And we started to solve this prob…

Appreciate thinking about it, but I think there's some misunderstanding - we don't track people or movements. VOYGR validates places - for instance, we are able to answer a questio…

It means that there is sufficient evidence found online that this business or poi is located at that address

Appreciate sharing this project - democratizing this data is indeed a very important step. Interesting that you settled on Haiku - did you have a chance to check flash-2.5-lite or …

Indeed, we've been told about that. Hopefully, it won't be a defining moment for us as a company :)

It is supposed to work if you even don't include unit number or a house number is a bit off. We analyze other signals too, so if the address is a bit off, the API is still supposed…

We are not providing opening times yet - we just check if place is permanently closed or not. But it is in the works under our experimental enrichment API (which is not yet open to…

Google also doesn't tell you if a place exists - it just returns the list of possible places which it thinks could be relevant. We have instructions defined for agents to onboard h…

We are using judges with LLMs and web grounding plus manual grading. We recently did a benchmark on the LLM quality across major AI providers - we plan to open source it soon and w…

Thanks! Was it truly down? I have checked and I don't see any disruptions

Thanks! Our initial API works as follows - you provide POI/business name and its address and we are telling you if it exists or not. So if you are looking to check if the plaza is …

It is on par with Google Maps API, but Google gives you more data. Our terms of service are more flexible - for instance we don't require attribution and deleting our data past 30 …

Thanks, it is going to be fun! :)

Both - we're building APIs ultimately designed for AI agents and LLMs that need trustworthy place data and that includes cases from enterprise to personal people's agents