What it is
Helping the people who serve Jamaican businesses find them.
Most Jamaican businesses are invisible online. They have a phone number, a location, and maybe a Facebook page — but no website, no Google listing, no digital presence that service providers can find. There are more than 28,000 of them — spread across every parish, every category, every size.
Yard Registry gathers these businesses from public Jamaican records, cleans up the duplicates, and flags the ones with the biggest opportunity — so you know exactly where the gap is, how large it is, and which businesses to approach first.
The result: weekly-updated commercial intelligence that tells you which parishes have the highest opportunity, which categories are hiring, which corridors are growing, and where the digital gap is widest. Not a static spreadsheet — a live intelligence feed.
Who uses it
Built for people who sell to, advise, or invest in Jamaican businesses.
Digital Agencies
Find businesses without websites in your target parishes. Export Tier 1 leads — no website, verified phone, active — ready for outreach.
Lead generation · Parish targeting
Business Consultants
Back your market assessments with real data. Parish opportunity scores, sector gap analysis, and weekly trend data for any client brief.
Market intelligence · Client reporting
Tourism Operators
See which parishes have the densest tourism corridor activity. Track hiring signals and growth trends in key tourism zones.
Corridor analysis · Growth signals
Local Government
Evidence-based planning for economic development. Understand commercial density, sector distribution, and digital maturity by parish.
Economic planning · Sector analysis
Economic Researchers
Business data across all 14 parishes, with weekly snapshots and full source attribution — useful for tracking change over time.
Research · Longitudinal analysis
B2B Sales Teams
The best leads are businesses that need you and don't know it. Find them by parish, category, and digital maturity. Export and go.
Prospecting · Territory planning
How it works
Four steps from raw data to actionable intelligence.
01 · INGEST
17 national sources
Every week, we pull from OCJ company registry, JTB tourism listings, CaribbeanJobs hiring data, OpenStreetMap POIs, STATIN economics, Bank of Jamaica registries, and 11 more authoritative sources. All public. No paid APIs.
02 · CLEAN UP
One record per business
The same business can show up in several sources under slightly different names. We merge those into one clean record — and keep track of every source it came from.
03 · SCORE
Opportunity score
Each business gets a score (0–100) and a tier based on its online gap, verified phone, hiring activity, and location — so you can see at a glance who's worth calling first.
04 · SYNTHESIZE
Parish intelligence
Entity scores aggregate into parish intelligence every Thursday: opportunity grades (A–D), digital gap analysis, movement trends, tourism corridor coverage, and confidence-weighted freshness. 14 parishes, every week.
Data sources
17 authoritative Jamaican sources. All public, all attributed.
We collect only publicly listed information. Every data point traces back to its source. No private data, no scraped credentials, no paid data feeds.
OCJ Company Registry
Registered companies, active/dissolved status
ocj.gov.jm
Jamaica Tourist Board
Licensed tourism properties, structured listings
visitjamaica.com
CaribbeanJobs
Active employer hiring signals, job postings
caribbeanjobs.com
OpenStreetMap Jamaica
Named POIs — amenity, shop, tourism, office
geofabrik.de · ODbL
STATIN
Economic indicators, sector statistics
statinja.gov.jm
Bank of Jamaica
Cambios, DTI financial service registrations
boj.org.jm
NEPA
Environmental permits, planning decisions
nepa.gov.jm
FindYello / Yellow Pages
Business directory — name, phone, category
findyello.com
JSE
Listed companies, securities registry
jamstockex.com
BGLC
Gaming and betting licensees
bglc.gov.jm
NCRA
Food, concrete, and baked-goods manufacturers
ncraj.gov.jm
JHTA
Tourism hospitality association members
jhta.org
Mining Leases
Quarries, mining, and mineral lease holders
mset.gov.jm
JamPorts
Customs brokers and freight agents
portjam.com
data.gov.jm
National Open Data Layer — CKAN portal
data.gov.jm
WorkandJam
Business directory — 37,000+ listings
workandjam.com
MLSS Employment Agencies
Licensed local and overseas employment agencies
lmis.gov.jm
Key concepts
What the intelligence actually means.
Opportunity Score (0–100)
Measures how much untapped digital potential a parish or business has. A high score means there are many businesses without web presence, operating in an economically active area, with verified contact details — prime targets for digital services.
St. James: 72.5 → Grade A opportunity
Digital Gap %
The share of businesses in a parish with no website or social-only presence. This is the core opportunity metric — the higher the gap, the more businesses are reachable but not yet digitally served.
Clarendon: 89.2% digital gap → 9 in 10 businesses have no website
Confidence Score
How well-supported the intelligence is by corroborating sources. A confidence of 93% means most entities in that parish are confirmed by multiple independent sources — OCJ + JTB + OSM, for example.
Platform avg: 93% confidence
Tier 1 Lead
The highest-priority lead profile: a business with no website, a verified phone number, and active status. These are the businesses most likely to convert to a digital services customer because they have a need and can be contacted.
630 Tier 1 leads active nationally
Hiring Signal
Detected from CaribbeanJobs job postings. A business posting jobs is actively growing — a strong signal that they're ready to invest in tools and services. We track 213 active hiring businesses nationally.
Kingston: 127 businesses hiring now
Tourism Corridor
Geospatially identified zones with high concentration of tourism-related businesses (hotels, tours, restaurants, attractions). Businesses in tourism corridors have higher economic context — St. James has 38.6% corridor coverage.
St. James: 38.6% tourism corridor
Privacy & data ethics
Only publicly listed information. Always attributed.
We collect only the data that businesses have already made public in national registries and directories. No private data, no owner personal details beyond what appears in public listings, no contact harvesting beyond verified public phone numbers.
- Every data point is attributed to the source record it came from
- No scraped personal data — only publicly listed business fields (name, category, phone, address, website)
- robots.txt is respected on all sources; Crawl-delay is strictly honoured
- Removal requests processed within 14 business days — email [email protected]
- Data is never sold to third parties; intelligence exports are anonymized at the entity level
Get access or get in touch
Questions about the data, pilot access, API integration, or removal requests.
[email protected]