A site-finding engine for hospitality operators. Instead of waiting for agents to send you sites, it starts from every restaurant, bar and pub premises in London — about 40,000 — and scores each one against your group's DNA: the size, pitch and neighbourhood profile of the sites you already run.
Seventeen public datasets, joined at the premises: the food-hygiene register, Land Registry ownership, the VOA rating list, council empty-rates records, insolvency notices, Companies House, EPCs, planning constraints, licensing, census and transport data. Nothing scraped, nothing bought — and one key insight: a site that has closed still shows, because closed sites are exactly what a buyer wants to see.
Each source refreshes on its own cadence — insolvency notices daily, rates and planning weekly, ownership and EPCs monthly. Live agency listings feed in by email as they're sent out, which is how a venue gets its "on the market" flag.
Warm dots are venues, coloured by DNA fit. Blue dots are the demo operator's own sites. Click any dot for the full picture: size, rateable value, tenure, availability signals, and links to walk the street. The signals — empty rates, insolvency, financial stress, ageing ownership — answer the question that matters: is it gettable?
The deep dive on one site, told as a walk-in: the map flies from all of London down to the front door while the story unfolds — the signal, the site, who owns it, who the people are, and the move. See the sample — a Covent Garden corner the engine flagged before it was marketed.
Land Registry licence terms restrict republishing the ownership dataset in bulk, so the map shows tenure and whether a title match exists. The per-site brief names the owner in full — that's a public record, looked up one site at a time.
No. One operator's DNA, one map. Your sites, your criteria and your shortlists aren't visible to anyone else — this isn't a marketplace.
It's a working prototype, open while it's being built. If you run a group and want your own DNA on this map — or a guided report on a site you're circling — email birdandy@me.com.
Andy Bird — ex-hospitality group founder who spent ten years finding sites the slow way. The longer story.
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