diff --git a/query/autocomplete.js b/query/autocomplete.js
index 33f394f5..24e4d6ac 100644
--- a/query/autocomplete.js
+++ b/query/autocomplete.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 var peliasQuery = require('pelias-query'),
     defaults = require('./autocomplete_defaults'),
-    textParser = require('./text_parser'),
+    textParser = require('./text_parser_autocomplete'),
     check = require('check-types');
 
 // additional views (these may be merged in to pelias/query at a later date)
diff --git a/query/text_parser_autocomplete.js b/query/text_parser_autocomplete.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..00e60724
--- /dev/null
+++ b/query/text_parser_autocomplete.js
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+
+var logger = require('pelias-logger').get('api');
+var placeTypes = require('../helper/placeTypes');
+
+/*
+This list should only contain admin fields we are comfortable matching in the case
+when we can't identify parts of an address. This shouldn't contain fields like country_a
+or postalcode because we should only try to match those when we're sure that's what they are.
+ */
+var adminFields = placeTypes.concat([
+  'region_a'
+]);
+
+/**
+  @todo: refactor me
+**/
+
+// all the address parsing logic
+function addParsedVariablesToQueryVariables( parsed_text, vs ){
+
+  // is it a street address?
+  var isStreetAddress = parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('number') && parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('street');
+  if( isStreetAddress ){
+    vs.var( 'input:name', parsed_text.number + ' ' + parsed_text.street );
+  }
+
+  // ?
+  else if( parsed_text.admin_parts ) {
+    vs.var( 'input:name', parsed_text.name );
+  }
+
+  // ?
+  else {
+    logger.warn( 'chaos monkey asks: what happens now?' );
+    logger.warn( parsed_text );
+    try{ throw new Error(); } catch(e){ logger.warn( e.stack ); } // print a stack trace
+  }
+
+  // ==== add parsed matches [address components] ====
+
+  // house number
+  if( parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('number') ){
+    vs.var( 'input:housenumber', parsed_text.number );
+  }
+
+  // street name
+  if( parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('street') ){
+    vs.var( 'input:street', parsed_text.street );
+  }
+
+  // postal code
+  if( parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('postalcode') ){
+    vs.var( 'input:postcode', parsed_text.postalcode );
+  }
+
+  // ==== add parsed matches [admin components] ====
+
+  // city
+  if( parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('city') ){
+    vs.var( 'input:county', parsed_text.city );
+  }
+
+  // state
+  if( parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('state') ){
+    vs.var( 'input:region_a', parsed_text.state );
+  }
+
+  // country
+  if( parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('country') ){
+    vs.var( 'input:country_a', parsed_text.country );
+  }
+
+  // ==== deal with the 'leftover' components ====
+  // @todo: clean up this code
+
+  // a concept called 'leftovers' which is just 'admin_parts' /or 'regions'.
+  var leftoversString = '';
+  if( parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('admin_parts') ){
+    leftoversString = parsed_text.admin_parts;
+  }
+  else if( parsed_text.hasOwnProperty('regions') ){
+    leftoversString = parsed_text.regions.join(' ');
+  }
+
+  // if we have 'leftovers' then assign them to any fields which
+  // currently don't have a value assigned.
+  if( leftoversString.length ){
+
+    // cycle through fields and set fields which
+    // are still currently unset
+    adminFields.forEach( function( key ){
+      if( !vs.isset( 'input:' + key ) ){
+        vs.var( 'input:' + key, leftoversString );
+      }
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = addParsedVariablesToQueryVariables;