Richmond's AI-native local guide

Ask Richmond anything.

Ask RVA answers from every rva.guru map, tonight's shows, the James River gauge and the National Weather Service, and it cites every source.

Places & shows indexed
328
Local maps feeding it
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Live feeds
USGS · NWS
Voice mode
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Ask RVA needs a free account. Map search is open to everyone.

The RVA.guru universe

A place for your next idea.

Local discoveries, creative studios, comics, games and builder tools. Find an app, pin it to your launchpad, and connect the next step.

AI

Ask & plan

Agents and search that answer from every rva.guru map, with sources.

AI

Ask RVA

A local agent with voice mode. It searches every map, tonight’s shows, the James River gauge and the NWS forecast, and it cites its sources.

Ask a question
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RVA Search

One evidence-first search box for every map and dated show. Each result shows its source and date.

Search the maps
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Plan my night

Dinner near a dated show, an optional late bite and breakfast, with walk/drive estimates and a shareable link.

Plan a night out
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RVA MCP

Plug Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or a local model into Richmond. One public MCP endpoint searches every map, lists dated shows, plans a night and reads the river gauge, with sources.

Connect your agent

Weekend Planner

Pair tacos with live music for a Richmond night out, using dated source notes.

Plan a night out

Style-Locked Design Assistant

A design chat that stays locked to one aesthetic movement for critiques, palettes and prompts.

Open the assistant
Maps

Explore RVA

Hand-checked local maps. Every one of them feeds Ask RVA and RVA Search.

Live

RVA Zeitgeist

Tonight’s bills, the James River gauge, weather and public incident context on one Richmond map.

Open the zeitgeist map

RVA Taco Map

Find Richmond taco spots by neighborhood, price, taco style and vibe, with an interactive map and editorial notes.

Explore the taco map

RVA Burger Map

Find Richmond burger spots by neighborhood, style, price and vibe, with an interactive map and local notes.

Explore the burger map

RVA Breakfast Sandwich Map

Richmond’s best breakfast sandwiches: biscuits, bagels, diner classics and the greasy-spoon institutions that make a morning.

Explore the breakfast map

RVA Live Music Venue Map

Key live music venues across RVA, from theaters and clubs to amphitheaters, with an interactive map and sample shows.

Explore the music map
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RVA Coffee Map

Independent cafés and roasters across Richmond from OpenStreetMap, link-checked, with hours only where the source lists them.

Explore the coffee map
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RVA Parks & River Access

James River access points, boat launches and big parks, with the live USGS gauge and the City’s PFD guidance.

Explore parks & the river
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RVA Farmers Markets

Weekly farmers markets and farm stands around Richmond, with days and hours from each market’s own site or the city or county.

Find a market
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RVA Dog-Friendly Map

Off-leash dog parks, leashed-dog parks and dog-welcome patios, each checked against the city, county or venue rules.

Find a dog spot

WRIR Radio Monitor

Follow what Richmond’s community radio station is playing and the shows shaping the underground scene.

Tune in

Music Listening

Tracks and shows from college radio curation (WUSB, WRIR, WPKN): techno, drum & bass, hip-hop and blues.

Browse tracklists
Studios

Create

Tools for making things: flyers, posters and traced art.

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Workflow Studio

Turn an idea into an exportable brief and a guided path through planning, creative, game and research tools.

Shape an idea

Flyer Forge

A press bench for posters and flyers, with type, themes, photos and a prompt chat that restyles the sheet.

Open Flyer Forge

Trace Studio

An AR overlay and lightbox tracing tool. Capture a camera feed or image, extract lines, blocks and shadows, and align the guide.

Open Trace Studio
Games

Play

Small, strange, Richmond-flavored things to poke at.

Tiger Samurai

Browse the comic rack and open the published illustrated pages and serialized script editions.

Read the comics

CLIQUE

Open the separately deployed social universe at its RVA.guru address.

Open CLIQUE

Richmond 32

Walk the Fan, Carytown, downtown and the James in a 32-bit Saturn-era RPG. The streets are traced from the real map.

Open the field map

Homies

A little life you check on. Feed them, put them to bed and see what happened while you were gone.

Open Homies
Workspace

Build & connect

Plan your next project, connect your agent, and keep your tools together.

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Your app launchpad

Search the app collection, pin your tools, keep a scratch note and export your browser-local workspace.

Explore all apps
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Integration console

Test public MCP tool discovery, inspect connection boundaries and access the machine-readable app catalog.

Test agent access

Build HQ

Module ownership, build contracts, ideas, research and the platform change record.

Open headquarters

System Builder

Break a project into milestones, track decisions and prepare implementation prompts.

Plan a system