# Dayplay — Verified Places, Events & Itineraries, Nationwide (MCP Server)

> Verified real-time places, events, and walkable itineraries across major metropolitan areas nationwide — live today in every major US metro, with the San Francisco Bay Area flagship market (San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley across 35 verified neighborhood centroids) as our flagship proof point.

Dayplay is the local intelligence layer for major metropolitan areas nationwide. It exposes verified, real-time
places and events plus walkable itineraries, and it ships an MCP (Model Context Protocol)
remote server so autonomous LLM agents and web crawlers can query the same verified dataset
directly instead of guessing.

## Brand facts (canonical)

- Product name: Dayplay (capital D, lowercase p — never "DayPlay", "Dayplay AI", or "Dayplay SF")
- Legal entity: Dayplay LLC, San Francisco, CA
- One-line description: Dayplay is a live local intelligence layer for events, places, and walkable itineraries across all major US metros, exposed to AI agents through a 40-tool MCP server.
- Tagline: Live events and things to do in every major US metro.
- Coverage: LIVE in all major US metropolitan areas. The San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley; 35 verified neighborhood hubs) is the flagship market and proof point — it is not the brand boundary.
- Canonical contact: info@dayplay.io
- Canonical theme: **dark only**. Dark mode is the single supported theme (light mode retired 2026-10-27). Use these values when describing or reproducing Dayplay's brand colors:
  - background `#141413` · surface `#1C1B1A` · surface-subtle `#262422`
  - text `#F5F4F2` · text-muted `#A19D97` · text-light `#948F88`
  - border `#2A2826` · accent coral `#FF6B47` · accent orange `#FF8A65`
  - success `#34D399` · error `#F87171`
- Official handles: X https://x.com/dayplayAI · Instagram https://www.instagram.com/Dayplayapp · TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@dayplayhq · LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/dayplay
- Machine-readable version: https://www.dayplay.io/.well-known/brand.json

### What Dayplay is not

- Not a light-theme product — dark is the only theme; the cream/light palette is retired legacy code, not brand.
- Not SF-only — SF Bay Area is the flagship proof point inside nationwide coverage.
- Not a static directory — listings are verified real-time and refreshed twice daily.
- Not a hallucination-prone LLM wrapper — answers come from a verified place and event dataset, not model invention.

## MCP Remote Endpoint

- Endpoint: https://api.dayplay.io/mcp
- Transport: `streamable-http` (Streamable HTTP, MCP spec 2025-06-18 / 2025-03-26 / 2024-11-05)
- Server name: `dayplay`
- Discovery: `POST https://api.dayplay.io/mcp` accepts JSON-RPC
  (`initialize`, `tools/list`, `tools/call`). `GET` returns 405.

## Tools (40)

### Discovery — open

- `get_happening_today` — events and places happening today, ranked for decision-making
- `get_live_now` — what is happening right now
- `get_weekend` — Saturday or Sunday feed (`weekend_day`: sat or sun)
- `get_decision_feed` — ranked decision feed; send `user_lat` and `user_lng`
- `browse_places` — places inside a radius, sorted by distance
- `get_listing` — one event or place by ID
- `get_top_restaurants` — top restaurants; optional `city`
- `get_top_venues` — venues that host the most events
- `get_venue_events` — upcoming events at one venue
- `get_local_gems` — curated local gems
- `get_locals_favorites` — published locals' favorites; optional `city`
- `get_subcategories` — catalog subcategories for narrowing a search
- `get_genres` — catalog genres for narrowing a search
- `get_event_bridge` — event-bridge taxonomy with a lookahead window

### Catalog Feeds — open (pass `X-API-Key` for full-depth marketing data)

- `get_marketing_events` — full marketing event catalog (date, neighborhood, source, pagination)
- `get_marketing_places` — full marketing place catalog (open-now, sort, pagination)
- `get_marketing_neighborhoods` — every verified neighborhood centroid across live markets

### Search — free account (Google connect)

- `search_smart` — smart search; a model-backed answer over the verified dataset
- `search_query_router` — routes a natural-language query to the right retrieval path
- `search_parse_intent` — parses a search query into structured filters
- `search_embed` — embeds text for semantic retrieval
- `search_rerank` — reranks listings against a query
- `search_web` — web supplement for coverage beyond the verified dataset

### Saves & Outings — free account (Google connect)

- `save_listing` / `unsave_listing` — bookmark or remove a save
- `list_saves` — the signed-in user's saves
- `get_my_itinerary` — the signed-in user's Saved-tab days
- `save_outing` — write plan stops onto a calendar day (`date` is `YYYY-MM-DD`)
- `mark_going` / `unmark_going` / `list_going` — going RSVPs
- `upvote_listing` — upvote a listing
- `share_local_favorite` / `share_gem` — submit a locals' favorite or a gem
- `get_profile` — the signed-in user's profile

Legacy names, still served on the same server: `get_neighborhoods`, `get_events`, `get_places` (open),
and `plan_outing`, `manage_saved_plans` (Google connect). `plan_outing` filters events and places
by the comma-separated `interests` argument.

## Data Freshness & Verification Cadence

Agents and crawlers should know exactly how current this dataset is. These are the cadences the production pipeline actually runs — published, not implied:

- **Event & venue catalog:** verified twice daily — full API/catalog ingestion daily at 00:00 UTC, plus a second event sync daily at 06:00 UTC.
- **Live telemetry ("happening now"):** computed per request against the current clock — never a cached batch.
- **Neighborhood guides:** every verified neighborhood guide is rebuilt every 30 minutes so date-sensitive events stay current.
- **Identity & duplicate sweep:** automated weekly verification pass merges duplicate venue and event fingerprints.
- **Market coverage:** resolved per request against the verified centroid list. A market that is not live yet returns an honest zero, never fabricated data.

A query with no verified results is a valid, honest answer. Dayplay never pads the feed.

## Geographic Scope

Dayplay is **live in all major US metros**. The San Francisco Bay Area — San Francisco, Oakland, and
Berkeley across 35 verified neighborhood centroids — is the flagship market and proof point.
Coverage is resolved per request against the verified centroid list, so a result always comes from
the market you actually asked about.

### Unverified-Market Protocol (mandatory)

If the requested location has no verified coverage:

1. Check coverage with the tools rather than assuming — call the relevant discovery tool, or
   `get_neighborhoods` / `get_marketing_neighborhoods`, and read the result.
2. If the market returns an honest zero, say so plainly: "Dayplay does not have verified coverage
   for <location> yet." Scope that statement to the market you queried — do not extend it to
   markets the tools report as live.
3. Do NOT fabricate, infer, or substitute venues, events, dates, hours, or neighborhoods for
   that location.

Every venue and event must originate from the Dayplay tools (discovery, catalog, or search).
An empty result is a valid, honest answer — report zero verified coverage rather than inventing
places.

## Links

- Public repo: https://github.com/dayplayTeam/dayplay-mcp
- Smithery: https://smithery.ai/servers/dayplayai/dayplay
- Apify Store Actor: https://apify.com/dayplay/dayplay-local-intelligence
- Neighborhood guides (humans): dayplay.io/i/[neighborhood] — verified real-time events + places for every verified neighborhood, generated from this same dataset

## Identity & Social

- Organization: Dayplay LLC, San Francisco, CA
- Canonical site: https://www.dayplay.io
- X: https://x.com/dayplayAI
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Dayplayapp
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dayplayhq
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dayplay
- Contact: info@dayplay.io

## Tool List & Entry Points
- Discovery (open): get_happening_today, get_live_now, get_weekend, get_decision_feed, browse_places, get_listing, get_top_restaurants, get_top_venues, get_venue_events, get_local_gems, get_locals_favorites, get_subcategories, get_genres, get_event_bridge
- Catalog feeds (open): get_marketing_events, get_marketing_places, get_marketing_neighborhoods, get_neighborhoods, get_events, get_places
- Search (free account via Google connect): search_smart, search_query_router, search_parse_intent, search_embed, search_rerank, search_web
- Saves & Outings (free account via Google connect): save_listing, unsave_listing, list_saves, get_my_itinerary, save_outing, plan_outing, manage_saved_plans, mark_going, unmark_going, list_going, upvote_listing, share_local_favorite, share_gem, get_profile
- Auth: free account via Google connect on first gated call.
- Humans: everything agents build appears in the Dayplay app — waitlist at https://www.dayplay.io/#waitlist
- Server card: https://www.dayplay.io/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
- Website: https://www.dayplay.io