/datamap is a Claude skill for small business owners. Point Claude at your reviews, your notes or your website. A few minutes later you have a map you can explore, and a partner to explore it with.
/datamap my KnowledgeForge repo. What do I actually know?587 notes in 18 regions. The biggest, SEO and content craft (65 notes), is know-how you could sell to clients. And 88 notes are the same instructions copied for each AI tool. Open the map ↓
Type /datamap and say what to map. Claude does the rest, and then stays with you to work out what the map means for your business.
A reviews or survey export, a folder of notes, your inbox, or your website.
It reads pages and files itself and tidies them into clean notes (Open Knowledge Format), fixing what AI tools can't read.
On your computer, every note becomes a dot; dots about the same thing form regions.
Claude names every region in plain words, writes a short report, and answers your questions by pointing at the map.
The mapping is a "King Tutte pipeline": UMAP, HDBSCAN and DataMapPlot, open-source tools from the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing.
A solo consultant maps 587 notes of hard-won know-how, finds what to sell, and sees what to clean up.
/datamap my KnowledgeForge repo. What do I actually know?The biggest region is 65: your marketing and search know-how. Next come 63 and 37, which document the product itself, and 35.
173 notes don't fit any one region; they're the grey dots.
Start with . Its 65 notes cover ad-performance checks, Search Console fixes, marketing copy without the tell-tale signs of AI, and rules for founder posts. That's a "search and content" package small businesses already pay for.
Your agent regions, like 18 and 12, are a second offer: a workshop for technical founders.
Two things:
Example conversation, built on the real map of the open-source KnowledgeForge repo (Apache-2.0, David Pedersen). Every number above comes from it.
The owner asks what 18 years of their own website say. The map answers in one picture, and the conversation turns it into a content plan.
/datamap thinkspace.com. What does our website actually say about us?The biggest regions are 60, 52 and 39.
The Over time chart in the corner tells the bigger story: 459 pages are from 2008–2013, and 2011 alone has 152. Since 2021 there are 16 new pages, and 13 of them are .
Barely. Find on the map: 8 of 629 pages mention it. Six are the homepage and your offer pages (virtual offices, event space, staff). Only two are blog posts: a 2013 book review and "21 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Try and Sell Your Company" (2026).
Green living, meanwhile, fills three whole regions: 23, 19 and 18. 42 of those 60 pages are from 2008. A visitor who reads past the homepage meets the thinkspace of 2008–2013.
Three things, in this order:
Want me to draft the hackathon recap first?
Example conversation, built on the real map. Every number above comes from it. Click a highlighted region or search to see it on the map.
An operations lead maps 835 handbook pages to fix onboarding. The same works for a ten-person team's SOPs and policies.
/datamap our handbook. New hires keep saying they can't find anything.Here's why. 709 of the 835 pages (85%) sit inside team folders: engineering alone has 175, support 120 and security 85. Only 58 pages explain how the company works as a whole.
The biggest region, 179, is written for engineers on call, not for someone in their first week.
There are 38 guides, and 22 of them already sit together in . For support, read those first, then and .
I can turn those three regions into one week-one reading list, in order.
Example conversation, built on the real map of Sourcegraph's public handbook (GitHub, Apache-2.0). Every number above comes from it.
The same Tutte Institute tools scale from a few hundred notes to millions of documents. These maps open in your browser; the larger ones take a moment to load.
An interactive map of COVID-19 research literature, organized into a navigable visual landscape.
A map of papers on arXiv using UMAP and nomic-embed.
at connoiter.com/datamap
Anything with words in it works. Most tools already have an "Export to CSV" button.
/datamap in any folder and say what to map.Mapping runs on your computer. Claude reads short samples from each region to name it.
# Once: ask Claude to install it Install the /datamap skill from https://github.com/Connoiter/claude_for_small_businesses_hackathon # Then, in any folder /datamap reviews.csv /datamap ~/Notes/my-vault /datamap https://yourbusiness.com # Or ask in plain words What are my customers saying in reviews.csv?