That kickstarter campaign is trying to raise £15,000 to fund the development of apps that will do speech recognition for Welsh and other Celtic languages - the aim being to provide feedback to learners to tell them if they are pronouncing things correctly.
The map isn’t part of the campaign, but were produced by the same guy behind the Kickstarter campaign - Magnus Orr of braw.media.
It depends what his aims are for his maps if there’s an overlap. My initial impression of them was that it was more along the lines of showing how widespread Welsh/Gaelic/Irish were, rather than providing a detailed resource listing Welsh businesses.
In recent times he has added an option for businesses to add themselves, so it’s possible it’s moving in that direction.
What’s been the response to your colleague’s encouragement? Is there a demand for this sort of thing from Welsh businesses?