HerMap is a verified guide to women-friendly local businesses, matched on the details that decide fit — no ads, no rankings. List your business free during the Denver Metro pilot.
have run into incorrect business information online
would avoid a business over incorrect information
search at least monthly for child-friendly, dog-friendly, or wheelchair-accessible details
Source: BrightLocal, Local Business Discovery & Trust Report, September 2023 — 1,138 US consumers.
Four standards that quietly decide how a day goes — none of them written around her. HerMap is local infrastructure for changing that, starting with the businesses around the corner.
How much thermostat standards may overestimate a woman’s metabolic rate. The comfort model dates from the 1960s and was built on an average male.
Kingma & van Marken Lichtenbelt, Nature Climate Change, 2015
A belted woman’s odds of serious injury in a frontal crash, versus a belted man in a comparable crash. Crash dummies were built around an average male.
Forman et al., University of Virginia, Traffic Injury Prevention, 2019
How much longer women wait at a peak when the floor area is split 50/50. A stall takes more room than a urinal.
Van Hautegem & Rogiest, Ghent University, Eos, 2017 (queueing model)
Federal law gives a nursing employee a private, non-bathroom space to pump. The number of laws giving a nursing customer the same thing: zero.
29 U.S.C. § 218d (PUMP Act) — employees only
Your customers research before they go. But the details that decide whether your business works for them are exactly the ones no directory shows.
Features, access, language, licenses. The small things that decide fit.
A real person checks each detail — on site, in person, or over live video — and it renews each year. Not crowd-sourced guesses. The badge shows the year, for transparency.
Filter by parking, WiFi, ADA access, kids areas, pet policies, language, and more.
Back-to-school is a real window for local discovery. HerMap helps schools, nearby business districts, and business groups turn their local network into a better-fit local guide for students, visitors, and nearby residents.
Help students, families, and visitors discover nearby places by real-life needs during back-to-school season.
BIDs, chambers, and merchant associations can help more member businesses become discoverable in one local guide.
Spotlight women-friendly and community-rooted member businesses by fit.
Initial HerMap guide pages so more member businesses become discoverable.
Selected member businesses receive complimentary first-year HerMap Verified highlights.
QR links, local guides, events, and possible school collaboration.
A timely, practical member benefit to offer.
More local discovery, plus featured highlights for selected businesses.
A better-fit local guide for real life.
Your authorized, objective business information becomes a searchable profile. This is the free Pilot starting point.
If you are interested, HerMap sends a simple review link after your draft is ready. You confirm, change, or remove individual details.
Interested businesses can be considered for a complimentary first-year, feature-level human review. Selection and verification are separate decisions.
Submit your essentials and one Stage 1 authorization. We will use this to prepare a basic listing, not to create a login, booking service, badge, Business Confirmed status, or HerMap Verified status.
View the Explore demo →HerMap Stage 1 is free and limited to data collection and basic public listings.
The person submitting the form represents that they are authorized to act for the business.
When authorized, HerMap may use submitted information and clearly stated, publicly available factual information from the official website to prepare and display a basic listing.
Basic public listings, Business Confirmed, and HerMap Verified are separate statuses. A listing is not a rating, endorsement, certification, or guarantee.
A business may request correction or removal by contacting us. HerMap may verify representative authority and address disputed requests case by case.
Automated scraping, crawling, and data mining of HerMap are not permitted. HerMap retains rights in its original software, editorial content, taxonomy, methodology, and original selection and arrangement of listing information; independently available facts remain available to others.
We collect the information you submit and objective information on the official business website.
We use it to contact the business, prepare or review a listing, process requests, and operate the Pilot.
Representative contact information is not made public merely because a business signs up.
We may use hosting, form, email, analytics, and map/navigation providers to operate the Pilot.
Contact us to request access, correction, or removal of information you submitted.
However you come to HerMap, there is a way in.
Explore the map, and tell us a place you love or a need we are missing.
Explore the map →Schools, districts, and business groups: start a short conversation about a pilot.
Email about partnership →Founding Denver businesses join free for their first pilot year.
Start your listing →Questions, ideas, or a place worth adding? We would love to hear from you.
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