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The product

One Next.js app you run on your own machine, built on small packages that each do one job: talk to a source, capture a page, resolve claims, or write files.

The research tool

apps/research-tool is a Next.js App Router app you start with pnpm dev. You create a business from a name and a domain, start a pipeline run, and review the result in tabs: Profile, Overview, Claims, Curation, Captures, Raw Data and Notes.

A settings page shows each source’s status, so you can see which keys are missing before you run.

Connectors

Each source is served by exactly one connector in packages/connectors. A connector never throws for a missing key: it returns not_configured. Blocked, rate-limited and failed calls get their own source status, so you know what to do next.

Paid sources stay off until you opt in, and they stop at a call ceiling you set.

Capture

packages/capture drives a real, locally installed Google Chrome. If a page shows a bot challenge, the capture stops with blocked: no stealth plugins, no proxy rotation, no CAPTCHA solving.

For a blocked page there is a manual capture path: HTML a person saved from their own browser goes through the same extractor and gives the same claims.

Resolution and curation

packages/resolve turns the claims for each field path into one resolved value. Your curation decision wins; otherwise the claim with the highest confidence wins; a tie between disagreeing claims stays an unresolved conflict for you.

Schema and store

packages/schema defines the file formats with zod. packages/store writes them as deterministic JSON, redacts key- and token-shaped strings before anything reaches disk, and locks a business while a pipeline run writes to it.

At a glance

Runs on
Your own machine (localhost); there is no hosted version
Accounts
None: no sign-in, no sign-up, no multi-user access
Storage
JSON and Markdown files under data/, one folder per business
Database
None
API keys
All optional; bring your own for each source
Source code
Private repository; access by request

Research the next business in minutes

The tool runs locally from a clone of the repository. Access to the repository is by request.