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Data

Four Family Groups Hold 56 of Chicago's 102 McDonald's

Every McDonald's in Chicago mapped to its legal owner through the city's own records: 102 locations across 14 owner groups.

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Every Caterer in America

181,848 catering businesses across all 50 states and DC, grouped into six kinds. The largest group has no address, because they come to you.

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109 restaurants opened in Phoenix, Albuquerque, Honolulu, and Lincoln in July. Here is the paper trail.

Every July 2026 restaurant opening Ora verified across four metros, with the government record behind each one where it exists. Four markets, one pipeline.

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We enriched 40 restaurants in four states. Ora found the owner on 38 of 40.

Owner names, menus, delivery platforms, reservations, and contact coverage for 40 established restaurants in Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Nebraska, from one enrichment API.

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1,111 Texas restaurants got their first Google review in July 2026

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

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One Family Owns 38 of Chicago's 46 Burger Kings

Every Burger King in Chicago mapped to its legal owner through the city's own records: 46 locations across 8 franchisees.

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Data

Every QSR in Four States

One Ora operation: 105,005 verified quick-service locations across California, Texas, Florida, and Arizona, with segment, chain, and Google listing per row.

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Data

Every Shelf in Denver

Ora mapped Denver's independent retailers and extracted 196,153 products from 261 store catalogs. Only four of those stores show up on a delivery app.

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15 Austin restaurants opened in June. This is the paper trail.

Government filings, websites, socials, opening posts, news, online ordering, and first Google review for 15 Austin openings. Every signal links to its source.

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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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Tutorial

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

1,063 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

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 category

Restaurants churn, change hands, and swap vendors faster than any other B2B 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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