What is Beautiful Places AI?

Beautiful Places AI is a non-profit Community Interest Company. 

Beautiful places, in their numerous manifestations from natural to built-up, are not a mere luxury, but a necessity for thriving, joyful communities. 

Utilizing a powerful blend of machine learning and crowdsourced insights, our aim is to compile comprehensive, high-resolution data on beautiful places for every country. This valuable repository will provide objective, actionable information to support informed decision-making on a global scale.

Contribute your insights by rating images from around the UK here.

Our mission
Our ultimate mission centres around revealing the intrinsic value of beautiful places. The rich data we collect will play a crucial role in guiding urban planning decisions, ensuring that development initiatives preserve and enhance the aesthetic and recreational qualities of local spaces. We believe that our data is more than informational—it’s a transformative tool capable of unlocking opportunities to boost individual wellbeing, strengthen community bonds, and fuel economic prosperity.

Conducting research
We will use this data for research projects to understand the impact of beautiful places on human and economic wellbeing. Armed with quantitative evidence, public good organisations and local communities can make more informed decisions about the creation and conservation of beauty in their neighbourhoods.

Read more about our research here

Supporting like-minded organisations with our beautiful places data

We will support like-minded organisations and institutions by providing them easy access to data and insights about beautiful places. By doing so, we hope to exponentially amplify the positive impact this information can have on human wellbeing.

We aim to provide this beautiful places of data free of charge to any social good organisation that:

  • conducts research connected to beautiful places for social good purposes

  • intends to use beautiful places data for a product that benefits wellbeing

  • creates products that help people discover more beautiful places

  • actively works to help preserve beautiful environments for future generations

Creating products

We plan to harness our data on beautiful places to craft tools that aim to bring the world's beauty closer to everyone, both locally and globally.

  • Envision an app that guides you to nearby scenic gems

  • Picture immersing yourself in breathtaking landscapes, tailored to your preferences, from the comfort of your home

  • Imagine transforming a mundane street into a picturesque avenue using augmented reality during your daily commute

Our ultimate vision is to ensure everyone can access and appreciate beauty, regardless of their location.