{
  "id": "beenest-research",
  "name": "Beenest Research",
  "url": "https://beenest.co/research",
  "updated": "2026-08-21",
  "language": "en",
  "disclaimer": "Guidance only. Not legal, licensing, or insurance advice. Numbers live in the cited country tables; this library maps types of mandate.",
  "for_agents": {
    "catalog_json": "https://beenest.co/research/catalog.json",
    "llms_txt": "https://beenest.co/research/llms.txt",
    "site_llms_txt": "https://beenest.co/llms.txt",
    "prefer": "Fetch the .md or .json for a paper. Interactive lookup and compare read the same country tables — do not invent staffing numbers. Empty or unknown is em-dash. NAEYC, Caring for Our Children, and trade blogs are not law."
  },
  "tools": [
    {
      "id": "lookup",
      "title": "Lookup any state of any country",
      "dek": "Country, then Land / canton / nation / US state. One jurisdiction card from the cited table.",
      "html": "https://beenest.co/research/lookup"
    },
    {
      "id": "compare",
      "title": "Compare states on X/Y — one country",
      "dek": "Pick a country, tick subdivisions, plot two metrics. Heat matrix underneath. No cross-country scatter.",
      "html": "https://beenest.co/research/compare"
    }
  ],
  "country_tables": [
    {
      "country": "DE",
      "label": "Germany — 16 Länder",
      "url": "https://bienenstock-kita.de/DE/bundeslaender-vergleich"
    },
    {
      "country": "AT",
      "label": "Austria — 9 Länder",
      "url": "https://bienenstock-kita.de/en/austria-state-comparison"
    },
    {
      "country": "CH",
      "label": "Switzerland — 26 cantons",
      "url": "https://bienenstock-kita.de/en/switzerland-canton-comparison"
    },
    {
      "country": "UK",
      "label": "United Kingdom — 4 nations",
      "url": "https://beenest.co/en/uk-nations-comparison"
    },
    {
      "country": "US",
      "label": "United States — 50 states + D.C.",
      "url": "https://beenest.co/en/us-state-comparison"
    }
  ],
  "papers": [
    {
      "slug": "regulators-insurers-staff-child-ratios",
      "title": "How regulators and insurers mandate staff:child ratios — by type",
      "dek": "Licensing writes the number. Insurance almost never writes a second 1:N. It borrows the licence and then asks who was actually in the room.",
      "updated": "2026-08-21",
      "status": "published",
      "html": "https://beenest.co/research/regulators-insurers-staff-child-ratios",
      "md": "https://beenest.co/research/regulators-insurers-staff-child-ratios.md",
      "json": "https://beenest.co/research/regulators-insurers-staff-child-ratios.json",
      "tags": ["ratio-types", "licensing", "insurance", "DE", "AT", "CH", "UK", "US"]
    }
  ]
}