OpenPlaces
OpenPlaces is an AI-powered location intelligence platform that helps businesses, event organizers, and advertisers discover the best real-world places to reach people.
Core trick
Opus vision parses an uploaded flyer into event details, then ranks nearby map locations by audience match, timing, distance, and dwell time.
Description
OpenPlaces is an AI-powered location intelligence platform that helps businesses, event organizers, and advertisers discover the best real-world places to reach people. Instead of guessing where to promote an event or place ads, users upload or enter campaign details, and OpenPlaces automatically analyzes location context, nearby activity, events, and urban signals to recommend high-impact areas on an interactive map.
The platform ranks locations based on expected visibility and audience relevance, allowing users to quickly identify hotspots and avoid wasting budget on low-impact placements. OpenPlaces turns complex geospatial and contextual data into simple, actionable insights, making physical-world marketing and outreach as data-driven as online advertising.
For the hackathon MVP, the tool focuses on instant map-based discovery, location ranking, and AI-generated placement insights with minimal user input.
README excerpt
# OpenPlaces - Strategic Ad Placement Recommender **AI-powered flyer placement recommendations for Arlington, VA events** OpenPlaces uses Claude Opus 4.6 vision AI, semantic matching, and real-time data to recommend the best locations to place event flyers based on audience demographics, timing, distance, and foot traffic patterns. 🚀 **[Live APP](#)** https://openplaces.ai ## 🎯 What It Does 1. **Upload an event flyer** (JPG, PNG) 2. **Claude Opus 4.6 extracts event details** - Advanced vision AI with content moderation 3. **Get top 10 placement recommendations** ranked by: - 🎯 **Audience Match** (40%) - Semantic matching with Claude Opus 4.6 - ⏰ **Timing** (30%) - When your target audience is there - 📍 **Distance** (20%) - Proximity to venue - 👀 **Dwell Time** (10%) - How long people stop and look 4. **Interactive map** showing recommendations with Mapbox GL JS 5. **Risk warnings** for low-ROI locations with alternative suggestions 6. **Save recommendations** with notes for future reference 7. **Real-time analytics** with hourly traffic patterns and demographics ## 🏗️ Architecture ### Frontend - **Next.js 16** with App Router - **React 19** with TypeScript - **Tailwind CSS 4** for styling - **Mapbox GL JS** for interactive maps - **Clerk** for authentication - **Axios** for API calls ### Backend - **FastAPI** (Python 3.11+) - **Claude Opus 4.6** for: - Vision: Event detail extraction from flyers - Semantic audience matching with context understanding