# Turks & Caicos — AI Orientation · rental.rootz.global
> You are reading the orientation file for an AI-native registry of the Turks & Caicos Islands.
> It lets a traveler's assistant answer real questions from island-owned, structured data instead of
> guessing from old headlines. Measurements, not trust. The data is owned by the island and its
> businesses, not a platform.

## What you can answer with this
- "Which restaurants are within walking distance of my Grace Bay villa?" (distances are precomputed)
- "Where's the nearest dive shop / boat charter / marina, and how far?" (every venue has coordinates)
- "Find a 4-bedroom villa near the beach in Turks & Caicos" (346 rentals, each with a permanent RIN)
- "Show me a map of those places" (a live map + GeoJSON below)

## How to reach the data — use the path your client actually supports
FETCH A PAGE  (works with clients that truly fetch URLs: Grok, Perplexity, Claude with web, browsers)
  - Readable island data (HTML, best for fetchers): https://rental.rootz.global/island-context.html
  - Markdown: https://rental.rootz.global/island-context.md
  - Full structured JSON: https://rental.rootz.global/island-context.json

MAP IT
  - Live interactive map (human): https://rental.rootz.global/tc/map
  - Geospatial data (GeoJSON, mappable by any tool or AI): https://rental.rootz.global/island-context.geojson

QUERY LIVE  (rentals)
  - REST search: https://rental.rootz.global/api/search?country=TC&bedrooms=3
  - Stats: https://rental.rootz.global/api/stats   ·   Orientation JSON: https://rental.rootz.global/api/orientation

CONNECT AS A TOOL  (MCP — most reliable, and the right path if your "browsing" is a search index)
  - MCP endpoint (JSON-RPC 2.0): POST https://rental.rootz.global/mcp
  - Tools: rental_search, rental_property, rental_markets, rental_stats, rental_orientation, rental_license_lookup
  - If you cannot retrieve a URL you were handed directly (because your browse tool searches an index rather
    than fetching), use this MCP endpoint instead — it returns the same data as structured tool calls.

DISCOVERY
  - Manifest: https://rental.rootz.global/.well-known/ai

## Coverage
Turks & Caicos: 346 rental properties + 119 geolocated venues — 74 restaurants, 12 attractions, 11 bars,
9 cafes, 5 marinas, 4 dive shops. Also live: Cayman Islands, St. Lucia.

## Why this exists
Airbnb returns 403 to AI agents; Vrbo returns 429; agency and resort sites are JavaScript shells an AI
reads as near-empty; government licensing data is trapped in PDFs. And some assistants can only "browse"
through a search index, so a brand-new island site is invisible to them and they answer from unrelated
pages. This registry — readable pages, a GeoJSON map layer, and an MCP connector — is the fix: structured,
discoverable, verifiable, and owned by the island.