A place in context
See how a place relates to the neighborhood around it — businesses, services, and everyday life.
Places in context
Understand
any place.
An independent project turning millions of scattered records into a way to understand places, discover opportunities, and see patterns that would otherwise go unnoticed.
For business owners, researchers, analysts,
and curious minds.
CaféA place to meet
WorkspacePart of the neighborhood
BookshopA different perspective
is connected.
Real experiences
Understand what people say, through reviews, recurring themes, and public sources.
Movement patterns
Explore opening hours and typical activity to see when a place comes to life.
New connections
Investigate similar places, complementary services, and possibilities around them.
Explore a place
Start with a place.
See the bigger picture.
A business you run. A neighborhood you work in. A location you’re considering. Follow a first clue and discover the context around it.
Try exploring a city
Starting with São Paulo. More cities ahead.
ONE PLACE. MANY CONNECTIONS.
What’s around here?
Identity, activity, and location.
Each place has a story.
A closer look at a place.
Select a business to see its surroundings.Explore available data
Explore further
Every place
has more to tell.
Follow a question to discover new perspectives. There is more than one way to understand a place.
Look beyond the category.
Two cafés can play very different roles. Read their services, attributes, and surroundings together to understand what makes each one distinct.
There is more to an experience than a rating.
Review texts and structured answers can reveal what people value, recommend, or find difficult. The available reviews are a sample, not every visitor’s experience.
Read the rhythm of the week.
Opening hours and popular times describe different things: when a place is open and its typical relative activity. Popular times are not live visitor counts.
A place belongs to a wider picture.
Explore nearby businesses and related places. Proximity, a shared category, and a source’s suggested connection each offer a different starting point for investigation.
Built on real-world data
A new way
to see places.
We bring together public records about businesses, locations, categories, reviews, and hours to reveal what makes a place one of a kind.
Explore the methodology
Public data
Businesses, locations, categories, and attributes.
A growing atlas
São Paulo today.
More cities to come.
Reviews & ratings
Perspectives drawn from people’s reported experiences.
Hours & patterns
When places open and their typical relative activity.
About the data and our approach
From records to context
PlaceInsight is an independent project connecting public business records and place information. What is available varies by place and source; an absent field is not evidence that a service or attribute does not exist.
Scope and coverage
The public explorer currently covers São Paulo. NYC, San Francisco, and Paris are planned additions. Illustrations on this page are conceptual, and the interactive diagram is an example.
Interpretation, with context
Reviews are partial perspectives, popular times show relative activity, and related places are source suggestions. These signals help frame a question; they do not by themselves establish demand, footfall, or commercial performance.
Use the public API
Look up a Brazilian business registration number (CNPJ) to get its legal name, postal code, coordinates, and activity code. No key required; up to 10 requests per minute per IP.
Read the API documentation