Pana Mia
Collective Tech

Find Your
People

South Florida's living archive of the creatives, entrepreneurs and small businesses who make this place what it is — written by them, not scraped from somewhere else.

The Problem

The top of the page is for sale.

  • The results are bought

    Search “near me” and the first screen belongs to whoever has an ad budget. Proximity is a filter there, never the ranking.

  • Someone else wrote your page

    A review site decides what your business is, in a stranger’s words, under a star rating you never agreed to.

  • The smallest ones aren't there at all

    No storefront, no sign, no ad spend — a kitchen, a booth, a spare room. Invisible to a map that only knows addresses.

How It Works

Three things happen before a name reaches you, and there is a person involved in every one of them.

  1. Panas write themselves in

    Your name, five words, your tags, your neighborhood. You describe what you do — nobody summarizes you.

  2. A human approves it

    Every submission is read before it goes live, and the rule is short: you live or work in Broward, Miami-Dade or Palm Beach.

  3. Then you can actually find it

    Search by keyword, category, county or distance — and it turns up Café, Bodegón and Lucía whether or not you typed the accent.

What You Get

  • Somebody to call

    Every result is a person or a shop with a name, a neighborhood and a way to reach them. Not a lead form.

  • Visible without a budget

    Placement isn't for sale here. A one-person operation sits in the same list as everybody else.

  • A record of who was here

    The directory is an archive as much as a search box — South Florida’s small operators, in their own words, kept year after year.

The Point

Somebody local already does that.

The directory exists so that the next time you need something, the answer is a neighbor with a name rather than whoever paid the most for the top of the page.