Building the digital nervous system of a community.

Project Mesa — a hyperlocal community platform unifying news, events, marketplace, and business discovery, with AI moderation and semantic search.

AnonymizedVerified outcomesProduction system

Building the digital nervous system of a community.

The challenge

What they were up against.

An entrepreneur wanted a single hyperlocal destination for local news, events, marketplace listings, and business discovery — replacing the fragmented experience of Facebook Groups, local newspapers, and Craigslist.

What we built

The system we shipped.

Core modules

Community news feed (curated + UGC with AI moderation), events calendar, local marketplace, verified business directory, and geography-based neighborhood groups.

AI features

Content-moderation AI, local-news summarization, business-profile enrichment, and semantic search across all content types.

Technology

Next.js, Node.js/GraphQL, PostgreSQL + Elasticsearch, AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, SES), and Stripe subscription billing.

Results

Outcomes, verified from production.

5 modules

Integrated into one platform

Semantic search

Across all content types

Subscription

+ premium-listing monetization built in

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