Product tutorials, data patterns, and company updates.

Tutorial

Set up an /ora skill: teach your agent the ORA API once

Our docs tell AI agents to create a lightweight /ora skill instead of copying documentation around. Here is why, what belongs in it, and a paste-ready SKILL.md.

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Tutorial

Enrich restaurants with ORA in Claude Code

A CSV of restaurants in, an enriched CSV out. The create-poll-fetch loop, per-field statuses, idempotency keys, and a paste-ready prompt for Claude Code.

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Enrich restaurants with ORA in Codex

A CSV of restaurants in, an enriched CSV out. The create-poll-fetch loop, per-field statuses, idempotency keys, and a paste-ready prompt for Codex.

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Tutorial

Get an ORA API key, self-serve

Register with an email, verify a 6-digit code, and exchange the grant for your key. Three curl commands, no sales call, no dashboard.

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Data

How many restaurants open in the US every month?

About 6,000. Roughly 72,000 new restaurants open in the US every year. Here is where that number comes from and what it means if you sell to restaurants.

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Tutorial

ORA field guide: Gift cards

What the gift_cards field means, what a real response looks like, what evidence backs it, and how to reproduce it with one curl flow or one agent prompt.

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ORA field guide: Menu

What the menu and menu_items fields mean, a real 197-item response, what evidence backs it, and how to reproduce it with one curl flow or one agent prompt.

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ORA field guide: POS provider

What the pos field means, what a real response looks like, what evidence backs it, and how to reproduce it with one curl flow or one agent prompt.

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Data

1,065 Texas restaurants got their first Google review in June 2026

Name, address, phone, first review date, and Google listing for every Texas restaurant that got its first Google review in June 2026. Free, every month.

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Tutorial

Tutorial: find newly opened restaurants with the Ora API

A five-minute walkthrough. Pull newly opened restaurants in your territory, enrich them with owner and tech-stack data, and get the output into your CRM.

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Data

Why restaurant data goes stale faster than any other B2B data

Restaurants churn, change hands, and swap vendors faster than any other SMB category. Here is why your restaurant list rots and what freshness is worth.

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News

We are hiring the first two people to build and sell Ora

248 is hiring a Founding Engineer and a Founding GTM Executive, in person in San Francisco. Here is what each role owns and how the process works.

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