Calgary's community events, readable by AI.
Citybook is a YYC live pilot that makes local programming, event calendars, and source-attributed business context easier for AI assistants and partner apps to query.
Why It Matters
AI knows the popular spots.
It doesn’t know your city.
Residents and visitors are asking AI for weekend plans, library programs, markets, recreation, and neighbourhood events. Without a structured local feed, the answer often falls back to old pages, generic attractions, or nothing specific happening this week.
"Ten Foot Henry — Canadian (New) · $$$ · 4.5 stars"
Generic category. No menu detail. No availability.
"Ten Foot Henry (1209 1 St SW) is a vegetable-anchored restaurant with sharing plates — try the roasted carrots with salsa macha or the gochujang cauliflower. Open daily 11am–11pm, brunch Sat–Sun until 2pm. Max party size is 6."
Real menu highlights. Hours. Useful detail.
"Hotel Arts — Boutique Hotel · 4.3 stars · Calgary"
Star rating. No availability. No local detail.
"Hotel Arts (119 12 Ave SW) has rooms available tonight. Year-round heated pool, on-site dining at Yellow Door Bistro, and free parking for direct bookings. 185 designer rooms."
Live availability. Real amenities. Bookable.
"Calgary has several spice shops and specialty food stores."
Vague. No names. No details.
"Silk Road Spice Merchant (1419 9 Ave SE, Inglewood) has handcrafted spice blends and curated gift sets like the Baker's Delight and BBQ Season boxes. Open Mon–Sat 10–5, Sun 11–5."
Named business. Real products. Hours. Actionable.
AI referral traffic grew 527% last year. But without structured local data, that traffic goes to cities that have it.
The Update Lag
Local updates should reach AI while they still matter.
Citybook turns publisher pages, claims, feeds, and event records into structured city data that agents can cite. Instead of waiting for search indexes and model refreshes, Calgary updates can become usable answers with sources, hours, locations, and organizer context attached.
Live in Calgary
This is real, right now.
Community events ingested from Calgary publishers, structured and source-attributed. The full browser lives at /yyc.
What You Can Do Today
Four ways to put Citybook to work.
Explore the live Calgary browser, claim an organizer profile, connect an agent-readable source, or use Citybook's structured RSS and JSON surfaces for downstream products. Each path strengthens the same public local-data layer.
For Organizers
Claim your organizer and verify the source.
Domain-matched claims identify the people responsible for an organizer profile. Citybook-Verified status adds a publisher-controlled verification line in /llms.txt, giving agents a stronger signal that the data came from the organization itself.
For AI Labs & DMOs
License city data that is built for agent answers.
Citybook packages local entities, events, claims, and source evidence for teams building travel, civic, hospitality, and local-search experiences. The developer surface at /tech shows how the data layer is exposed.
Want Citybook for your city?
We are looking for Calgary publishers and civic partners for the YYC pilot. Non-Calgary publisher onboarding is waitlisted.