TheOne Man Sideshow

A sourced city directory in thirty-five hours, run by one person and a fleet of AI agents.

88,888places listed in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai
35 hfirst commit to a live directory
$5a month to run it
1person

Measured September 2026: places and cost on motdang.net, hours in Act III.

เบียร์เย็น · COLD BEER ไอติม · POPSICLES

7‑Elevens are sacred

Mot Dang lists 487 of them in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai. It knows 92 with a cash machine and 231 open all night.

Counted 18 September 2026

The acts

What the show runs on.

Act I · Access

A person stood there

Rides the city with a 360° camera, reads Thai-language and official sources, and knows the shop owners by name. A fact checked on the street is marked as one.

motdang.net/field

Act II · Taxonomy

The facts that decide

Taxonomy work at Quora. A shelf says what a place is; a facet says whether it is worth the walk: wifi, step-free, a cash machine, open all night.

215 shelves, Thai and English

Act III · Throughput

Thirty-five hours a city

Seven reference directories in seventy days, timed from first commit to live site: 53 hours, then 45, 45, 36, 35, 35, 35.

20 sites · 99,303 pages · 302,396 records

Act IV · Evidence

The warrant

Trained as an intelligence analyst. A fact shows how it is known: joined from a map point nearby, tagged, or seen by a person. Unknown shows as blank, not as “no”.

motdang.net/brief

Act V · Place and time

Near · now · soon

Certified in GIS. Pages answer from where the reader stands: nearest by road, open now, the air, the rain, and what is on this week.

motdang.net

Act VI · Machine readers

Read by machines

AI crawlers made 85% of motdang.net’s requests in a September week. The pages are built for them: an open licence, llms.txt, schema.org, a source on each field.

Uptake, the manual

Act VII · The assistant

Answers from your records

Answers in the asker’s language, cites the records it used, marks general knowledge “not verified”, and logs what it could not find so the directory grows.

ask.motdang.net · pike.motdang.net

Act VIII · Messaging

Messages on a calendar

Festival and event campaigns drafted to their lead times for LINE and email. They go out on the owner’s word.

As a U.S. diplomat: wrote an embassy’s consular emergency plan, worked evacuations

Act IX · The fleet

Lay minister to bots

Agents on schedules, one job each: a clinic-licence sweep, a Facebook reader, a source scout, a LINE desk, a field pipeline. Each open question goes to the owner with its options, costs and a date.

The kit, free below

For a town

Mot Dang, for your town.

  • The town’s shops, clinics, offices and wats, each with a pin, a shelf and a source. Owners claim their page with one tap.
  • Licensed clinics read from the Ministry’s licence register.
  • Near · now · soon: nearest by road, open now, air, rain, events, emergency numbers.
  • A LINE desk: what staff send from the street (messages, photos, bug reports) sorted hourly into place facts, operations and questions.
  • Announcements and festival campaigns drafted to their lead times, sent on the clerk’s word.
  • An assistant that answers residents from the town’s records, in Thai or English.
  • Open licence and machine-readable pages, for the AI crawlers already reading the web.
  • One screen for the clerk each morning.

Running now for Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai: motdang.net

Town hall

Set up for your town

  • The directory built, the desk and the assistant running
  • Training for the clerk
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Tickets

Two ways in.

General admission

Do it yourself

Free

  • The kit: scripts, templates, scheduled-task prompts
  • Morning screen, queue with dated defaults, night shift, style gate, memory
  • You need a Mac and Claude Code
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Ringside

Set up for you

฿25,000Thai companies

or

US$25,000everyone else

  • Set up on your machine, fitted to your work
  • Training included
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Who runs the show

Nan Peacock · Chiang Mai

Builds and runs motdang.net and wichaa.net: 6,986 Lanna manuscripts catalogued in three months, alone.

Earlier: U.S. Navy Arabic interpreter and intelligence analyst; U.S. diplomat in Sudan, Tunisia, the UAE and India. Taxonomy work at Quora. Certificates in AI/ML (UC Berkeley, 2024) and GIS (2024).

nan@motdang.net