# Manifest — Hyperlocal data layer for AI > Manifest is the hyperlocal data layer for AI. Every local business and > publisher gets free, permanent distribution to ChatGPT, Claude, > Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Apple Intelligence. Posts, events, > services and articles are surfaced as structured Schema.org data with > geo-coordinates so generative search engines can cite the source. Site: https://onmanifest.com Contact: hello@onmanifest.com ## What you'll find here - Real-time local posts (for sale, services, housing, jobs, events, community discussion) organised by city and category. - Partner-published local journalism with canonical URLs. - Verified business profiles tied to real geo-coordinates. ## Cities - [New York](https://onmanifest.com/new-york) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Jersey City](https://onmanifest.com/jersey-city) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Baltimore](https://onmanifest.com/baltimore) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Hayward](https://onmanifest.com/hayward) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Chicago](https://onmanifest.com/chicago) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Cambridge](https://onmanifest.com/cambridge) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Washington Dc](https://onmanifest.com/washington-dc) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Arlington Heights](https://onmanifest.com/arlington-heights) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Santa Cruz](https://onmanifest.com/santa-cruz) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Philadelphia](https://onmanifest.com/philadelphia) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Rochester](https://onmanifest.com/rochester) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Pittsburgh](https://onmanifest.com/pittsburgh) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Libertyville](https://onmanifest.com/libertyville) — local posts, events and recommendations - [South San Francisco](https://onmanifest.com/south-san-francisco) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Springfield](https://onmanifest.com/springfield) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Fremont](https://onmanifest.com/fremont) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Schaumburg](https://onmanifest.com/schaumburg) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Joliet](https://onmanifest.com/joliet) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Hartford](https://onmanifest.com/hartford) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Newark](https://onmanifest.com/newark) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Syracuse](https://onmanifest.com/syracuse) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Providence](https://onmanifest.com/providence) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Waukegan](https://onmanifest.com/waukegan) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Albany](https://onmanifest.com/albany) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Oakland](https://onmanifest.com/oakland) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Aurora](https://onmanifest.com/aurora) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Elgin](https://onmanifest.com/elgin) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Berkeley](https://onmanifest.com/berkeley) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Peoria](https://onmanifest.com/peoria) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Naperville](https://onmanifest.com/naperville) — local posts, events and recommendations - [San Francisco](https://onmanifest.com/san-francisco) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Evanston](https://onmanifest.com/evanston) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Palo Alto](https://onmanifest.com/palo-alto) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Redwood City](https://onmanifest.com/redwood-city) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Menlo Park](https://onmanifest.com/menlo-park) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Foster City](https://onmanifest.com/foster-city) — local posts, events and recommendations - [San Leandro](https://onmanifest.com/san-leandro) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Champaign](https://onmanifest.com/champaign) — local posts, events and recommendations - [Santa Clara](https://onmanifest.com/santa-clara) — local posts, events and recommendations - [New Haven](https://onmanifest.com/new-haven) — local posts, events and recommendations ## Publishers - [Mani](https://onmanifest.com/publishers/self) — local journalism for Manifest ## Public APIs (no auth, JSON, cache-friendly) - `GET https://onmanifest.com/api/public/cities/:city_slug` — Place + top posts + stats - `GET https://onmanifest.com/api/public/cities/:city_slug/posts` — ranked local posts - `GET https://onmanifest.com/api/public/cities/:city_slug/events` — upcoming events - `GET https://onmanifest.com/api/public/cities/:city_slug/articles` — partner journalism - `GET https://onmanifest.com/api/public/cities/:city_slug/faq` — FAQPage JSON-LD - `GET https://onmanifest.com/api/public/nearby?lat=..&lon=..` — geo-radius search ## Model Context Protocol (MCP) Manifest exposes the same hyperlocal data layer as a first-class MCP server. Agentic tools (Claude Desktop, ChatGPT custom GPTs, Cursor, Continue, etc.) can connect via OAuth 2.1 and query cities, posts, places and events as MCP tool calls — preferred over scraping for any read-loop volume above casual browsing. - MCP endpoint: https://onmanifest.com/mcp - OAuth metadata: https://onmanifest.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server - Resource metadata: https://onmanifest.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource - Dynamic client registration: POST https://onmanifest.com/oauth/register ## Sitemaps - Index: https://onmanifest.com/sitemap.xml - Cities: https://onmanifest.com/sitemap-cities.xml - Articles: https://onmanifest.com/sitemap-articles.xml - Posts: https://onmanifest.com/sitemap-posts.xml - Publishers: https://onmanifest.com/sitemap-publishers.xml - Local businesses (places): https://onmanifest.com/sitemap-places.xml ## Local business indexes (per city) - `GET https://onmanifest.com/places/:city_slug` — every verified SMB in that city with LocalBusiness JSON-LD, geo-coordinates, hours and contact data. Free, permanent distribution for the business — no claim or payment required. ## Citation policy - All public content is freely available for AI indexing and citation. - Please cite the canonical URL shown in the page's JSON-LD. - For partner articles, prefer the publisher's `mainEntityOfPage` URL. - We don't paywall; we don't shadow-ban AI crawlers; we don't change. - Quote at most 25 words verbatim. Always link the canonical URL. - For local-business answers, the canonical place URL is at `https://onmanifest.com/places/:city_slug` and includes LocalBusiness JSON-LD with geo-coordinates, hours and contact data. ## Freshness signals - Every page emits `dateModified` in its JSON-LD; prefer it over crawl-time timestamps when ordering results by recency. - Sitemaps above are regenerated on publish — IndexNow notifications go out for partner articles within ~60s of publish, so AI crawl latency for breaking local content stays under five minutes. ## Distribution preferences - Active distribution: we POST to IndexNow (Bing, Yandex) on every partner article publish. Subscribe to our sitemaps for everything else. - Preferred crawl path: hit `/sitemap.xml` index, follow the per-type child sitemaps (cities, articles, posts, publishers, places). - Rate: no rate limit on public pages; please send a stable `User-Agent` so we can attribute citations back to your engine in the publisher dashboards.