Automate the creation of Web Directories

The software relies on a few helper tools, depending on your operating system and preferences:

• Windows: The scraper runs in isolation. The app uses WSL when available and falls back to Docker Desktop otherwise: it guides you through setting up whichever is needed.
• Mac: the scraper runs on Docker Desktop. If you do not have it, DirectorAI downloads it and guides you through the installation.
• Local AI (Optional): You do not install the recommended local writer (llama.cpp) yourself: DirectorAI downloads and configures it automatically for your GPU and RAM. Only if you prefer Ollama or LM Studio will you need to install them.

Note: do not worry about hunting them down. DirectorAI detects automatically if any are missing and guides you to download and install them from their official sources.

You will find the step-by-step fix for the most common Mac, Windows and Docker warnings in Troubleshooting. If yours is not there, write to us through Contact and we will help you.

No. Once you buy a pack of executions (Starter, Pro or Agency), they are added to your account for life. Use them today or a year from now. There are no compulsory monthly subscriptions.

Yes. The program creates temporary files in your user folder. If you stop the script or it closes unexpectedly, running it again with the same parameters (same city and niche) makes the system detect those existing files automatically. It will ask whether you want to resume from exactly where you left off, so you do not burn AI API credit or waste time on work that was already finished.

No. The app guides you step by step, listings upload themselves from the program, and the day-to-day work, like editing businesses, approving featured spots or moderating reviews, happens in visual panels. You do not need to write a single line of code.

No, it is not required. DirectorAI is a hybrid system. You can use your OpenAI or OpenRouter API key if you want maximum writing speed. That said, the program can download and set up a free local writer for you (llama.cpp) and also integrates natively with Ollama and LM Studio, letting you run local AI models (such as Qwen, Gemma or Mistral) on your own computer completely free and without limits.

The main difference is cost and speed:

• OpenAI/OpenRouter: pay per use (API key), but you get very high quality and coherent writing without using up your PC’s resources.
• Local (llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio): free, but it uses your computer’s CPU/GPU. The app downloads and configures llama.cpp itself after detecting your hardware; quality depends on the model you download (the program recommends and downloads models from its own interface) and speed depends on how powerful your machine is.

Yes. For blog generation, DirectorAI includes an optional image engine based on Stable Diffusion. Performance adapts to your hardware:

• NVIDIA: uses CUDA acceleration for fast, high-quality generation.
• Mac (Apple Silicon): optimised for M1/M2/M3 chips.
• CPU: with no dedicated GPU it falls back to the processor (slower, but it works).

You can choose between several visual styles: photographic, illustration, fantasy or minimalist.

Every article is written from scratch after analysing the real top 10 for your keyword, section by section and with its own locally generated images. Nothing is copied or rewritten from others. On top of that, publishing is spread across irregular days and daytime hours, following the pattern of a human newsroom.

• City Mode: you build a complete directory centred on a single city (e.g. "Madrid"), covering as many categories as you define (lawyers, restaurants, dentists...). Ideal for vertical local portals. You can include unlimited categories and subcategories.
• Country Mode: you choose a country (e.g. "Spain") and one or more niches (e.g. "plumbers" or "plumbers, locksmiths, electricians..."). The program automatically finds that country’s most relevant cities and generates the specific pages for each city, and for each city, pages for its neighbourhoods or districts.

DirectorAI does not simply copy the Google rating; it uses its own weighted algorithm to produce a unique score from 0 to 10. The calculation takes three main factors into account:

• Rating: the original star rating, normalised.
• Reliability: the volume of reviews. A business with 4.5 stars and 1,000 reviews scores higher than one with 5.0 stars and only 2 reviews (logarithmic scale).
• Competitive position: it compares the business with the others found in that same city and category.

This gives a fair, balanced ranking that rewards both quality and track record.

It depends on your settings and the data found, but it scales massively:

• City Mode: it depends how many categories and subcategories you define. With the default structure, sites of over 2,000 pages are common.
• Country Mode: it depends on the niches and the size of the country. Multiplying niches by cities and by neighbourhoods, sites of 50,000 pages or more are perfectly feasible.

The program builds a complete, hierarchical information architecture:

• City Mode: home, categories, subcategories (listings), individual business pages and sitemap.
• Country Mode - Niche: home, city, neighbourhoods, individual business pages, "niche near me", "all locations" and sitemap.
• Country Mode - Multi-industry: home, niche pages, "niche in location", "niche in neighbourhood", individual business pages, "niche near me", an index of locations per niche and sitemap.

The program analyses the real addresses of the businesses it extracts. If it finds enough of them (at least 2) concentrated in a specific sub-area (district/neighbourhood), it automatically generates a dedicated page for that neighbourhood (e.g. Lawyers in Triana, Seville). This hugely improves local SEO by targeting very specific searches.

Ideally you would do keyword research, looking at search volume and competition in the target country. If you want a faster route, though, you can ask an AI (such as ChatGPT or Gemini): "Give me a list of local services with high demand and low digital competition in [country]". That gives you an excellent starting point.

No. DirectorAI extracts real data from Google Maps: name, address, phone, opening hours, website and genuine user reviews. It then uses AI to analyse those reviews and write a unique, persuasive description grounded in what customers actually said, but with 100% original wording to avoid duplicate content.

Yes, DirectorAI has a dedicated "Blog" tab. You write the keywords yourself, the AI suggests them or DataForSEO researches them with their real search volume. For every article it reads what Google already shows (with DataForSEO, SerpApi or Serper.dev) and writes a complete article with HTML formatting (bold, lists and tables), an optimised title and meta description and an automatic category. You can also include AI-generated images, as a cover and beneath the headings (h2), and schedule their publication.

Yes. In the settings you can change the interface (UI) language and, separately, the writing language of the site, so you can generate content in whatever language you need regardless of your system language.

Yes, if you switch it on. Tick “Create legal pages (legal notice and privacy)” in the program (or turn it on later in the plugin settings) and fill in the owner’s details once. Every website then comes with its legal notice and its privacy and cookie policy, written according to the laws of your country and the directory’s country, in the website’s language and covering what the website actually uses (maps, advertising, forms). The contact page is always created.

They are a complete, up-to-date starting point, but no template replaces a professional: if your situation has anything unusual, it’s worth reviewing them.

Yes, in three ways: advertising like Google AdSense across your thousands of pages, featured businesses that pay to appear on top (every website includes the form, the panel to approve them and automatic Stripe or PayPal billing, with automatic renewal and expiry) and selling leads to businesses in the niche. The website is 100% yours: you set the prices and get paid directly, with no middleman fees.

Just the domain and a normal hosting plan: the plugin is built to run on budget shared hosting and the local writer writes for free. There are no DirectorAI subscriptions and no cost per published page.

It takes a minute in the DirectorAI Engine plugin, the hub where every listing and every request is managed. If the business writes to you, you find its listing and edit or delete whatever is needed; and if you would rather not get involved, every website includes a form so the business itself asks to be added, changed or removed: the alert lands in your panel and you approve it with one click.

The program produces a CSV file, perfectly structured and optimised for importing into WordPress. It includes ready-to-use columns: title, HTML content (already laid out), meta title, meta description, slugs and tags.

Absolutely. DirectorAI handles on-page SEO automatically:

• Meta titles and descriptions: optimised with local keywords.
• Semantic structure: H1, H2 and H3 headings in a correct hierarchy.
• Interlinking: it creates automatic internal links between city, neighbourhoods and business pages.
• Original text: by rewriting descriptions with AI, you avoid duplicate content penalties.

Just a brand-new WordPress on your hosting and the DirectorAI Engine plugin. When you click Set up my site, the plugin sets it up just like DirectorAI sites:

• Required plugins: Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, Shortcodes Ultimate, Antispam Bee and WP All Import with its templates, in case you prefer to import the CSV by hand. If your hosting uses LiteSpeed, LiteSpeed Cache too.
• DirectorAI Theme: a custom, ultra-light theme built specifically for SEO and extreme loading speed.
• The "DirectorAI Engine" plugin: the perfect companion to DirectorAI, the engine room that works from inside WordPress.

If you prefer, you can also import the complete WordPress with the base.wpress file from My account.

Yes. The theme ships with 25 preset aesthetics you can switch between easily in the settings, from Minimalist (the default) to Neon, by way of Elegant, Luxury or Midnight. That lets you match your directory’s appearance to the niche you are targeting without touching any code.