How we do it
A guide isn't a scrape of the first search page. Behind every city sits a repeatable process: several independent research passes, consolidation, a logistics check from coordinates, and fact verification. Here's exactly how.
1. Several independent research passes
Each layer of a city — architecture, food, nature, art, nightlife, day trips — is researched by several independent passes, with different models and prompts. That lowers the odds of a guide inheriting some fluke that "everyone copies from everyone else."
2. Consolidation and priorities
The findings are merged into one document: agreement strengthens a place's case, and disagreements are flagged and re-checked. Every place gets a priority —essential (must), if you have time (want), orskip (overrated, or beside the point for a resident).
3. Fact-checking — at least two sources
Address, hours, and price are the most fragile: they go stale and they "hallucinate." So we don't trust a single source. A fact counts as confirmed only after it agrees across at least two independent sources (the venue's official site, mapping data, local directories). Anything doubtful is marked [verify] rather than passed off as certain, and hours are given with the season in mind — summer/winter and August closures.
4. Coordinates and route logistics
Place coordinates are verified against at least two sources — a single geocoder misses by kilometres. The order of stops on a route isn't guessed by eye: an algorithm arbitrates it from verified coordinates, cutting out backtracking and impossible hops. That's how an evening or day loop actually holds together as one walk.
5. Updates
Cities live: venues close, hours shift, events move. The last-updated date sits on every page, and the seasonal calendar is revisited regularly. Spot something off?Write to us.