Industry · Hospitality
Build a restaurant, venue or lodging directory and run it from your own AI
A hospitality directory helps people decide where to eat, stay or celebrate: restaurants by cuisine, wedding venues by capacity, or boutique hotels by town. Directories.ai populates listings from real businesses, organizes them, and lets your AI assistant write guides and social posts from them.
Directories people build in hospitality
Each of these runs on the same platform. Pick one audience and one area to start; categories and location fields let you widen later.
- Restaurants by cuisine or dietary need in one city
- Wedding and event venues by capacity
- Boutique hotels and inns by region
- Breweries, wineries and tasting rooms
A starting category structure
Categories become your browse pages and your search landing pages, so give each one a unique intro and FAQs.
- By cuisine
- By occasion
- By price range
- Outdoor seating
- Private events
Where the listings come from
Business searches such as “wedding venue” or “vegan restaurant” by city return real venues with websites and phone numbers. Your AI assistant can then add details like capacity or hours from each venue’s own site.
Contact details are only filled in from a real source, never guessed.
How a directory like this makes money
Directories.ai charges a flat price per directory and takes no cut of what you earn.
- Featured venue placement
- Event and booking inquiry forms
- Affiliate links to reservation and booking sites
- Display ads on guide pages
Launch plan
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Create the directory and categories
Describe the niche to your AI assistant and let it set up the category tree. The launch-directory playbook walks through the rest.
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Populate it with real businesses
Start with the free open-data source, or a Google Business Profile source on your own key, and import by search term and city. Imports land as drafts and never duplicate a business already listed. Records you already hold go in with ingest_listings.
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Check quality before publishing
Score every listing, merge duplicates and fix the weakest entries first, then publish in one step.
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Invite businesses to claim
Send claim invites in daily batches with follow-ups, so owners keep their own details current.
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Try asking your assistant
- “Import wedding venues within 50 miles of Nashville and add a capacity field”
- “Write a “best brunch spots” guide from the listings in each neighborhood”
- “Draft a week of spotlight posts for Instagram from our top-rated listings”
Frequently asked questions
Can I post the directory to social media?
Yes. Your AI assistant drafts platform-sized posts on the Social page, and you review each one before it goes out.
Can venues claim their listing?
Yes. Claim invites and claim review are built in.
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Ready to run your directory with AI?
MCP access is included on the Growth plan. Pay per directory, cancel any time.