A guest guidebook that never sends anyone to a closed door

Anna rents out two holiday flats near the Parliament in Budapest. Her guests love her little guidebook of places around the corner. Last month, a family walked to her favourite bakery and found it closed for good. A cafe on her list had slipped to two stars. Each surprise ends up in a review, and checking forty places by hand takes a whole weekend. With xMap Flows, Anna built Curator. On the first of every month, Curator draws a five-minute walk around each flat, finds the cafes, bakeries and pharmacies inside it, spots the ones that closed or slipped, tells Anna about them, keeps the open ones rated four or more, rewrites the guidebook, and saves it in the folder her guests open. This month, Curator finds a new bakery two streets away and a cafe that closed in August. Both are fixed in the guidebook before the next guests land. Anna keeps her weekend, and her rating climbs back to four point nine. Anna’s guidebook used to age by the month. Now it renews itself on the first.

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