Atlas

A dated record of machine-readable capabilities the open web does not provide.

When software acts on someone's behalf it has to read a site rather than look at it: find the terms of use, locate a price, discover an interface. Often there is nothing there to read. Atlas measures that absence across a defined set of sites, repeatedly, and keeps an append-only signed record of what was missing and when — including seven years reconstructed from a public archive.

This site is also the worked example

An index of missing machine-readable surfaces should have one itself. These are live:

Status

Research in progress. The measurements are real; nothing here is a commercial offering yet. The payment challenge names a test network and settles nothing — it exists so the discovery path can be verified, not to take money.


Operated by Geosensor. Measurement traffic identifies itself and carries a contact address.