Public business facts in a shape machines can reuse
The profile carries stable identity, category, address, source, action, and structured data fields instead of loose listing copy.
For Providence Businesses
Verified Business Profiles inside the guide travelers already use.
Providence Guide builds checked, machine-readable business profiles for restaurants, hotels, experiences, and visitor-facing local businesses. The product is structured presence, not fake ranking or hidden advertising.
Every public profile needs attributable sources, official action links, visible freshness, and a correction path before it belongs in the traveler-facing guide.
Commercial Boundary
Verified means checked, not best.
Paid profiles use visible commercial disclosure. Payment supports profile creation, maintenance, and eligible visibility work; it does not buy editorial recommendation.
- Verified profile
- Checked public facts, official actions, visible freshness, and structured data.
- Editorial pick
- Separate recommendation status awarded by the publisher, never sold through a profile.
- Commercial presence
- Visible paid relationship when profile creation, maintenance, or eligible visibility work is commercial.
Product
What the profile actually gives the business
The product is structured presence inside an independent Providence guide: checked public facts, official actions, traveler context, and public machine-readable data.
A real Providence role, not generic marketing adjectives
Each profile explains when the business helps a visitor: downtown stay, College Hill slice, reservation dinner, museum-adjacent stop, or night-out move.
Commercial visibility stays separate from recommendation
Verified means checked and well-presented. Recommended means editorially earned. Those claims must remain visibly different.
Annual Profile Pricing
Choose the profile depth after fit check
First-year pricing covers setup, source review, publication, and public profile work. Renewal keeps the profile maintained and re-checked.
Local Verified
First year $499
$299 annual renewal
Small, single-location Providence businesses that need a clean, checked public profile.
- Verified Business Profile page after fit check
- Official website, map, call, menu, booking, or reservation actions
- Category and district fit written for real visitor decisions
- LocalBusiness structured data and public freshness date
- Correction path and annual source re-check
Standard Verified
First year $899
$499 annual renewal
Hotels, restaurants, experiences, and visitor-facing businesses that need a fuller profile.
- Everything in Local Verified
- Richer visitor-use positioning and stronger action ordering
- Public source inventory and machine-readable profile JSON
- Selective internal placement where the business genuinely fits
- Language plan for future locale rollout when checked copy is ready
Enhanced Verified
First year $1,500
$900 annual renewal
Larger, more complex, or multi-surface hospitality businesses that need deeper entity work.
- Everything in Standard Verified
- Owner-attributed section when real owner answers and consent exist
- Photo/gallery handling with source and rights discipline
- FAQ or richer structured data only where facts can be maintained
- Stronger network placement review without buying editorial recommendation
Optional Monthly Care
Freshness and reporting without selling placement
Monthly Care improves updates, freshness, and reporting. It does not buy ranking, editorial recommendation, or preferred placement.
Care Basic
1 minor update per month
Monthly freshness check on core links, priority correction handling, and a short performance note.
Care Plus
Up to 3 minor updates per month
Seasonal notes, menu or booking link updates, quarterly language/context refresh, and priority support.
Care Pro
Up to 6 updates per month
Monthly content refresh, campaign blocks, fuller reporting, and extra internal placements only when they fit editorially.
What must be true before a profile goes live
- The business is real, active, and visitor-facing.
- The category, address, and official contact path are clear.
- At least two attributable sources can support the public profile.
- At least one source is official or directly controlled by the business.
- The profile can help a traveler decide without fake ranking language.
- Red flags can lead to manual rejection. Payment does not guarantee acceptance.
If visitors compare it separately, it is a separate profile
- A hotel is usually one profile.
- A separately branded restaurant inside the same hotel is a separate profile.
- A spa, bar, or venue with its own visitor decision path can be a separate profile.
- Additional units under the same ownership or brand receive 40% off the selected tier.
- Groups and multi-location operators are scoped as custom network packages.
Non-Negotiables
What the product does not sell
These rules protect the traveler-facing guide and make the commercial product easier to trust.
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A Verified Business Profile does not buy a ranking, Top 10 slot, or editorial recommendation.
02
Paid participation must stay visible when a profile is commercial.
03
Editorial picks are awarded separately and can be removed if confidence drops.
04
Freshness dates move only after a real source or owner-confirmed review.
05
Ratings, reviews, live availability, and opening hours stay out unless the platform can maintain them honestly.
Manual Review
Start with a fit check, not payment.
Fit checks are reviewed manually. We only quote a profile after the business, public sources, category fit, and disclosure requirements make sense.