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Texas Data Centers Before They Break Ground

Ora found 120 active data center builds in Texas worth $46.4 billion. 20 of them, $6.5 billion, have not broken ground yet.

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Restaurant Type and Chain Status for 100 New Openings

Ora labeled 100 new restaurants in 32 states as quick service, full service, food truck, bodega, or ghost kitchen, and as chain or single location.

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Every Item on the Menu at 50 New Restaurants

Ora read the menus of 50 restaurants that opened this year: 5,213 items with name, description, and price, across 40 kinds of restaurant in 22 states.

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15% of New Restaurant Licenses in Chicago Are Ownership Changes

Of 667 new restaurant licenses Chicago issued in a year, 98 were an existing restaurant under new owners and 504 were new restaurants.

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POS Providers at 100 New Restaurants

Ora identified the POS provider for 30 of 100 restaurants that opened in July 2026. Toast runs more than half of them.

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New restaurant openings in the San Francisco Bay Area

219 Bay Area restaurants that opened or announced an opening since mid-August, with owners, emails, phones, and the source behind each date.

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Shopify Stores by Category

Ora checked 2,000 US retail stores. 347 sell online on Shopify, and they range from clothing boutiques to auto parts and plant nurseries.

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US Retail Ecommerce Stack

Of 500 US retail stores drawn at random, 136 sell online from their own site, most of them on Shopify and WooCommerce.

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47 New and 7 Closed Stores at Ten Retail Chains

Since August, Ora found 47 new stores and 7 closures at Target, Home Depot, Tractor Supply, PetSmart, Staples, and five more chains.

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A Month of PetSmart and Staples Shelves

Ora read every PetSmart and Staples shelf every morning for a month: 43 million store-by-item pairs, with units on hand.

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Every Multi-Buy in Ten Grocery Weekly Ads

Ora reads ten grocery weekly ads across 512 stores in 13 states: 817 multi-buys a week, delivered every Monday as one CSV per chain.

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Every Deal at Crest Foods in Oklahoma City

Ora's read of the Crest Foods deal board: 300 live deals across 10 Oklahoma City stores, 81 of them multi-buys, each with its own sale window.

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Every Deal in the Dave's Markets Weekly Ad

Ora's read of the Dave's Markets weekly ad for Cleveland: 128 priced tiles, 62 of them multi-buys or buy one get one, one download for all 12 stores.

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One in Five Festival Foods Deals Is a Multi-Buy

Ora read the Festival Foods ad for September 16 to 22: 1,111 offers on 1,730 items, and 212 of them are 2 for, 3 for, or 4 for.

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Every Deal in the Marc's Weekly Ad

Ora's read of the Marc's weekly ad for Ohio: 254 priced items, 78 of them multi-buys, across five regional versions that differ in seven deals.

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Every Deal in the MARTIN'S Weekly Ad

Ora's read of the MARTIN'S weekly ad across four states: 320 items in seven regional versions, 277 of them in every version, 102 multi-buys.

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Every Deal in the Superior Grocers Weekly Ad

Ora's read of the Superior Grocers weekly ad for California and Nevada: 425 priced items, 87 multi-buys, and two ads that share 138 items.

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Every Item in the Gelson's Weekly Ad

Ora's read of the Gelson's weekly ad: 89 priced offers, 443 items, identical at all 26 stores, and only 15 of the offers are multi-buys.

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Every Item in the Uncle Giuseppe's Weekly Ad

Ora's read of the Uncle Giuseppe's weekly ad for September 18, all 13 stores: 680 items, 36 multi-buys, and only 65 items on sale everywhere.

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Seventeen Versions of the GIANT Weekly Ad

Ora's read of the GIANT weekly ad for Pennsylvania: 17 regional versions across 166 stores, 374 distinct items, and 30 items that change price by region.

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4,768 New Restaurant Listings in Ten Countries

4,768 restaurants that appeared for the first time on digital maps across ten countries between September 9 and 12, 2026, with no reviews. 157 opening soon.

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100 Med Spa Openings from this Summer and Fall

Ora finds new med spa openings across the US. Explore 50 recent openings and 50 announced future openings, with evidence and a downloadable dataset.

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47 New Restaurants on Local News

One opening from each of 47 news sources: 18 upcoming and 29 recent or opening-day reports, all matched to listings, with a download.

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A Week of McDonald's and Burger King Closures and Openings

Ora tracks 23,309 McDonald's and Burger King locations. In one week, 4 opened, 31 closed for good, and 25 reopened.

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Every Deal in the GIANT Weekly

Ora's read of the GIANT weekly ad for one Pennsylvania store: 383 offers, 135 multi-buy deals, 1,949 item rows keyed on the UPC.

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New restaurant openings in September across the US.

A sample of restaurant openings Ora has dated for September 2026, across 40 states and DC, with owner names and the government record behind each one.

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Every Sephora in America

One day of open or closed status for every Sephora listing in the US: 2,298 listings, 1,807 open and 491 closed on September 3, 2026, by state and format.

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Which Restaurants in Your CRM Have Already Closed?

A restaurant technology company sent us 392 CRM accounts from two zip codes. 236 were unique and open. 349 open businesses nearby were missing.

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Every Item on Bass Pro Shops Shelves

Ora's read of Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's, store by store: 156 stores, 217,420 SKUs, and a 4.7 million row day-one shelf behind a site that blocks browsers.

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Every Deal in the Big Y Weekly Ad

Ora's read of the Big Y weekly ad, store by store: 79 supermarkets, 43 multi-buy deals per store, 34,918 store-by-item rows with the store's own item codes.

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Every Item on PetSmart Shelves

Ora's daily read of every PetSmart shelf in North America: 1,699 stores, 38,814 products, 41,932,692 store-by-item stock records.

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First Party Ordering in Chicago Restaurants

Ora mapped first-party ordering across Chicago: 2,626 of 7,155 live restaurants sell direct, and Toast hosts more of them than everything else combined.

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Every Item on Staples Shelves

Ora's live read of every Staples shelf in Canada: 296 stores, 12,488 products, 820,147 store-by-item stock records.

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Every Pet Store in Vancouver

Ora's census of pet stores in Vancouver, BC: 79 open stores, 55 with inventory available to buy online, 18 live on Uber Eats.

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50 DFW restaurants opened in July. This is the paper trail.

The government filing, opening signal, and online ordering footprint for 50 verified July openings in Dallas-Fort Worth. Every cell links to its source.

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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 July restaurant openings in four metros. 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.

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