The challenge
Local recommendation threads can mix genuine customer experience with friends, networking groups, and coordinated support. The useful signal is difficult to see by inspection alone.
BNI Detector
The product behind Referral Radar: a focused tool for spotting repeated businesses, phrases, and referral-network patterns in local recommendation threads.
Inside the project
The approach
We designed a paste-or-upload workflow that extracts visible text, identifies repeated wording and business concentration, surfaces public affiliation clues, and keeps the report framed as evidence to verify rather than an accusation.
The result
A testable MVP with local analysis, optional AI extraction, report sharing, saved scans, and a careful product position around asking better questions before hiring.
Lanes Brains contribution
From the first decision through the finished interface.
- 01Product design
- 02Pattern analysis
- 03OCR workflow
- 04Nuxt application