Making local economies visible to AI

Ask an AI assistant what is on in Bridgetown tonight, or which shop has a cordless drill in stock, and it will guess. The answers exist. They are on the radio, on store websites and in social posts, in no form a machine can use. VeriSitu collects that information, connects it and keeps it current, with every fact linked to where it came from.

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The Pulse home page. A question about cricket at Kensington Oval is answered using coverage from three Barbadian radio stations.
Pulse, one of three applications built on VeriSitu, answering a question from what three Barbadian radio stations broadcast.

The problem

Much of what is true about a place today was said out loud this morning. A radio host mentions that a show has moved. A hardware store changes a price on its website. An organiser posts a new start time. People who live there pick this up without trying.

Software does not. Search engines index pages, and most of this was never a page. AI models learn from data that is months old, in which local detail was thin to begin with. So the systems people now ask first are at their weakest on local, current questions.

For a visitor that means a wasted trip. For a tourism authority, a hotel group or an investor, it means decisions made on an outdated picture.

How it works

VeriSitu runs continuously. It listens to live radio, reads local news and store websites, and follows public social channels. From each it extracts the facts: who, what, where, when and how much.

It then matches those facts against what it already holds. Three stations talking about the same cricket match become one event with three sources. A changed start time replaces the old one, and the old one stays on record. The result is a current, structured account of a place that an application, a search box or an AI agent can query.

Discover
Find relevant information across a place’s local sources.
Understand
Extract meaning, entities and relationships, including local names for things.
Connect
Reconcile sources, keep where each fact came from, and track what changes.
Deliver
Serve the result through applications, search and APIs.

“What is happening with cricket at Kensington Oval?”

SourceTypeWhat it carried
The Beat 104.1 FMRadioTournament coverage
Q 100.7 FMRadioPromotion of live commentary
LIFE 97.5 FMRadioThe match schedule
Answer given: The CPL was at Kensington Oval, with the three broadcasts attached as playable clips.
A historical example from 6 September 2026, as shown in Pulse.

Applications

Pulse

Pulse answers questions about what is happening in Barbados. It listens to ten FM stations, reads the news and follows TikTok and Instagram. Every answer comes with the sources behind it, including radio clips you can play.

pulsebarbados.com

In beta. Built with tourism and hospitality in mind.

Detail of a Pulse answer, with a play button for the radio clip that supports it.
An answer in Pulse, with the supporting clip from The Beat 104.1 FM.

Yuh Gettin’ Tru?

Yuh Gettin’ Tru? is one search across the island’s shops. It scans store websites daily and understands Bajan, US and UK names for the same product. At the time of writing it covers 501,597 products and services from 132 stores and 2,054 vendors.

What people search for and fail to find is, in aggregate, a record of unmet demand.

yuhgettintru.com

In beta. For shoppers, retailers and distributors.

The Yuh Gettin' Tru? search page, showing a search box and the number of products, stores and vendors covered.
The Yuh Gettin’ Tru? search page.

We Outside 246

We Outside is a guide to parties, concerts, fetes and limes in Barbados. It finds events automatically from the Instagram posts of organisers and promoters, credits them, and links every listing back to the original post.

At the time of writing it has scanned 53,167 posts from 665 profiles. Of those, 6,386 were event posters, which it has reconciled into 1,514 distinct events.

weoutside246.com

For anyone deciding where to go out.

The We Outside events page, listing upcoming events in Barbados with their posters and the Instagram accounts that posted them.
Upcoming events on We Outside, each credited to the accounts that posted it.

Who it is for

The same information answers different questions, depending on who is asking.

Tourism authoritiesWhat is on this weekend, and is it still on?
Hotel groupsWhat will affect our guests this week?
InvestorsWhat is changing here before the statistics show it?
Development banksWhere is demand going unmet?

Sources

An answer is only as good as your ability to check it. Every fact VeriSitu holds stays linked to the broadcast, page or post it came from, and to when that was published.

If two sources disagree, both are shown. When something changes, the earlier version is kept and marked as replaced. Search activity is only ever used in aggregate.

Barbados

VeriSitu is based in Barbados, at 13.19° N, 59.54° W. The island is small enough to observe closely and complete enough to be a real test. It has its own media, retail, tourism and public life.

The approach is built to be repeated in other places.

Contact

We are talking to investors, partners and organisations that want to use VeriSitu. Write to us.

hello@verisitu.com