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Ni Biashara Agent Index
Live counts of AI assistants reading diaspora businesses
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Live counts of AI assistants reading diaspora businesses
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Which AI assistants read 2,127 African and Caribbean diaspora businesses — live, in public. The directory is machine-readable end to end (open JSON API, llms.txt, MCP server, A2A agent card). This page opens the logs: AI reads over 7 and 30 days, who's reading (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Meta, Apple, ranked), most-read listings, metros and categories. Named AI crawlers only, one read per visitor, page and day. Same data as JSON at /api/v1/reads.
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Hey Product Hunt,
I run Ni Biashara, a directory of African and Caribbean diaspora businesses: 2,127 restaurants, braiders, grocers, churches and more across the US, Canada and beyond.
A few months ago I rebuilt the whole thing for one reader: AI assistants. Every listing is readable over an open JSON API, llms.txt, an MCP server and an A2A agent card, and robots.txt explicitly welcomes AI crawlers. Then I started counting who actually showed up.
The Agent Index publishes those logs live:
- AI reads over 7 and 30 days (5,319 and 9,334 as I write this)
- Who's reading, ranked: Meta and Apple currently out-read OpenAI and Anthropic on our pages
- Most-read listings, metros and categories
- Every listing page shows its own "read by AI assistants N times this month" counter, and owners can embed it on their own site
- The same data is public JSON at /api/v1/reads
What counts: named AI crawlers and assistants only (OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Meta, Apple, DuckDuckGo, You.com, ByteDance, Common Crawl families), one read per visitor, page and day. Search engines, SEO tools and our own monitors are excluded, so the number is never padded.
Why it matters: small diaspora businesses are invisible to most AI answers today. Making the directory agent-readable is how they get recommended when someone asks an assistant where to eat, get braids done, or send money home.
I'd love feedback on two things: what breakdowns would make this index genuinely useful to you, and what it would take for your product to publish its agent traffic too.