The cloud engine — how niche/region/criteria directories are built, accessed, and personalized, including the Cloud Factory and my.doozer.cloud.
A Cloud is a curated directory of businesses grouped by niche, region, or arbitrary criteria. Clouds sit on the same engine as roots and NBMN, rendered through the shared multi-view framework and business card.
includes/cloud-engine.php. Clouds use is_active (NOT status). Membership is a filter (states / cities / geo bounds), not a fixed radius, so large areas work. Manual curation can include/exclude specific businesses (admin Members panel). doozer.cloud apex is the public Cloud of Clouds (Discover Clouds). Each cloud carries an AI-generated vibe header.
Public (AUTO or CLOSED join), Unlisted, or Private, so a cloud can be an open regional directory, a curated collection, or a members-only list.
includes/admin-cloud-factory.php (Decide → Build → Manage): give it a niche + region and it creates the cloud, runs a Prospector sweep, and batch-builds the discovered businesses (which auto-join). Geo areas reuse googleGeocodeSearch bounds. This is how a themed directory goes from idea to populated in one flow.
Each signed-in user gets a personal cloud (includes/cloud-directory.php personal branch) with a Vibe System: Mood (color) x Energy (0-4) preference; headlines follow energy via meCloudHeadlineBank(); reduced-motion keeps colors. This is the consumer-facing, "your neighborhood, your way" surface. Saved businesses derive their URL from the business's ACTIVE domain, never a stored lb_follows.domain_id.
Clouds turn the flat fleet into infinite meaningful cross-sections, each a new discovery surface feeding the flywheel.