How it works

Five steps to your place in AI history

10,000 plots exist. There will never be more. Each one is a permanent, non-transferable digital record — not a security, not equity, not a blockchain asset.

1. STEP 1

   Choose your plot

   Open the map, pan and zoom to a district, and pick one of the remaining plots. You'll see the plot number, district, price and nearby owners before you commit.

2. STEP 2

   Create your account

   Email/password or magic link. Bot protection and a per-account limit keep the scarcity real — no bulk buying, no scalping.

3. STEP 3

   Build your profile

   Name, category, short description, links and your logo or avatar. This is what renders on the map and on your permanent plot page.

4. STEP 4

   Pay securely

   Stripe handles checkout. Your plot locks for 15 minutes so nobody else can take it; abandoned checkouts release automatically.

5. STEP 5

   You're on the map

   Your plot activates, your logo appears on the landscape, and you get a shareable social card and downloadable ownership certificate.

Plot states

Available

Neutral and unclaimed. Anyone can claim it through the standard flow.

Reserved

Held for a notable company, founder or project. Never implies participation or endorsement — claiming requires verification first.

Claimed

Owned. Logo, name and plot number render on the map permanently.

Premium

Strategically valuable or landmark locations with distinct pricing and, occasionally, a larger visual footprint.

The nine districts

• Foundation District

  Frontier model labs and the compute backbone of the AI era.

  900 plots

• Founder Island

  The people betting their careers on building AI companies.

  900 plots

• Startup Bay

  Early-stage AI companies shipping into the unknown.

  1,600 plots

• Agent City

  Autonomous agents, swarms and the software that runs itself.

  1,225 plots

• Creator Coast

  Educators, storytellers and creators of the AI generation.

  1,024 plots

• Open Source Mountains

  Maintainers, weights, repos and the commons of AI.

  1,024 plots

• Investor District

  Funds, angels and the capital behind the buildout.

  729 plots

• Builder Valley

  Indie hackers, engineers and weekend-project legends.

  1,444 plots

• AI Citizens

  Everyone who simply wants their place in AI history.

  1,154 plots

Claiming a reserved profile

Reserved plots can never be bought through the standard flow. The real entity submits proof — a work email on the entity's domain, a DNS TXT record or a/.well-known/themapofai-verify.txttoken, or a matched social account — and only after review does a single-use link unlock payment for that specific plot. Landmark plots always require human admin approval.