How does Buildout Feed find new NYC restaurants?
Short answer
Buildout Feed pulls DOB filings, SLA license applications, DOH inspections, and NYS DOS LLC formations every night, resolves each address to a BBL through NYC GeoSearch, and fuses signals into one record per venue.
Buildout Feed finds new NYC restaurants by combining four public datasets and resolving every address to a single stable identifier.
First, addresses from DOB filings, SLA license records, and DOH inspections all pass through NYC GeoSearch, which returns the property's BBL (Borough Block Lot number). BBL becomes the primary key for the venue.
Second, the pipeline scores each venue's restaurant likelihood based on DOB job description keywords, SLA license class, and DOH inspection presence. Only venues scoring 60 or higher on restaurant confidence show up in public results.
Third, venues with three or more corroborating signals graduate from the substrate view into the daily digest. Below that threshold, they stay visible on the dashboard while the system waits for a third signal.