July 12, 2026 — 1,374 live · the big rescue
- 2,811 past rejections re-judged with a smarter method: 606 real venues restored to the pipeline, 2,193 rejections upheld. Full story.
- Brand families fixed: hotel groups that run many properties on one website are now tracked per property — a flaw that had been hiding whole resort markets, including most of Hawaii’s.
- This site grew from a single page to the full pre-launch set: coverage data, methodology, and these updates.
- Register stands at 1,374 verified venues; 91% carry a direct phone number.
July 11, 2026 — coverage becomes policy · 274 cut in one read
- Every state got a minimum coverage target sized to its market — depth everywhere, not token entries. The worst-covered states are now searched first.
- A full human read of every published row — every name, every website — cut 274 entries no automated filter had caught: budget hotel chains and dozens of template-name fakes pointing at unrelated websites.
- The inspector came online: every defect type ever found by hand is now hunted automatically, around the clock.
July 10, 2026 — the register goes public
- theretreatregister.com went live, verified with Google and Bing, launch-notify signup open.
- First fully-cleaned register published: 1,313 venues.
- 95 convention/expo facilities moved off the public list to a review shelf — real businesses, wrong category.
- Faith-based retreat centers reviewed one by one against the same quality bar as everyone else: 7 promoted, 2 declined.
July 9, 2026 — the quality reckoning
- Reading sample rows caught what volume metrics hid: messy public data had slipped a luxury fashion retailer and an online dictionary into the catalog as “venues.” Both cut.
- Every cached verdict was thrown out and every candidate re-judged under sharpened rules — the raw catalog stood near 1,850 candidates going in.
- Monitoring rebuilt around one question: what got produced today? — not is the machine running?
July 8, 2026 — the engine becomes self-running
- The pipeline switched to fully automatic operation: finding, verifying, photo-checking, and publishing on its own, around the clock.
- Sweeps widened town by town beyond the famous destinations — the whole-map promise started here.
July 7, 2026 — day one
- The pipeline came online: open-web search plus machine reading of venue websites, with photo verification against each property.
- First sweep of premium retreat markets began; the first verified candidates were banked the same day.
- The rule that still runs the register was set on day one: a venue is either good enough to be in it, or it isn’t in it.
Every entry reflects The Retreat Register’s internal build records for that date. Numbers are actuals, not projections. How verification works: the methodology.