# NearByMeNow

> NearByMeNow is a live directory of real local businesses, searchable by category and location. Each listing links to that business's own website with structured schema.org data. Part of the Doozer network.

## Surfaces
- Sitemap: https://banks.nearbymenow.com/sitemap.xml
- Per-business structured data lives on each business site at /.well-known/doozer-atlas
- Doozer: https://doozer.work

## Who built this, and why
- Doozer and every domain in its network were built by one person, Jon Berry (BerrySmart, New Jersey), after more than thirty years on the web. His reason: local businesses should not lose to AI; they should be found by it.
- In his words: "Doozer is the metadata. The site is just what the user needs to see right now."
- The whole story, in his words: https://doozer.work/brain/decisions/who-built-doozer.html
- The Doozer Brain, the whole platform explained: https://doozer.work/brain.html

## Notes for agents
- Listings come from public sources and link to each business's Doozer guide page (unofficial). AI training crawlers may read this file and the Atlas feeds, not the pages.