How we build Directory listings
1,700+ company profiles, compiled by us from public sources. Here is where each one comes from, what it is allowed to say, and how to get it corrected.
Compiled, not submitted
We build the Directory ourselves from public sources so a buyer can compare a whole category, rather than only the companies that chose to send us something. A company appearing here has not paid to be here and did not ask to be here.
Every field declares what it claims
A profile mixes three different kinds of statement — checkable facts about a company, our own category-level analysis, and plain navigation data. Each field is registered as one of them, and the ones that assert facts render only when we can point at the vendor’s own page for them.
Automated drafting, human rules
Records at this scale are drafted with automated tooling, including large language models, working from the company’s own pages. What that tooling is allowed to write is not its own judgment: unsourced claims are dropped rather than published, and fields that proved unreliable were removed outright.
Corrections are always free
Anyone can report an error on any listing, and we fix it whether or not that company pays us for anything. Accuracy is what we owe the reader, so it is never behind a purchase.
Where a profile comes from
We build the Directory from public sources: vendor websites, open catalogs of the software landscape, and our own category research. That way a buyer looking up a category sees all of it, not just the companies that signed up. Each record starts as a name, a website and a place in our taxonomy. We then draft the written parts from the company's own public pages using automated tooling, large language models included, and we check every factual field back against those pages before it goes live.
That draft is a starting point, not an authority. If we can't trace a claim to the vendor's own material, it doesn't appear. An empty field beats a confident invention.
What each part of a profile claims
A profile makes three different kinds of statement, and we keep them apart on purpose, because each one can be wrong in a different way.
- Facts about the company— the summary line, the description, headquarters, founding year, pricing model. These can be checked, and they're meant to be. They only appear with the vendor's own page behind them.
- Our analysis of the category— how buyers evaluate this kind of software, taken from the matching Buyer Guide and credited to the CIOPages Research Team. That's our view of a market. It is never a claim that a particular company has a particular capability.
- Navigation and structure — the company name, its link, where it sits in our taxonomy. These claim nothing except that they point to the right place.
What we removed, and why
In August 2026 we audited what our own profiles were claiming and cut the fields that couldn't survive it. Per-vendor capability lists had no support on the vendor's own site in 96 of 100 records we sampled, and some carried invented specifics. Those are gone, replaced by category-level evaluation criteria that name the guide they came from. Compliance badges claimed the same certification for 93 of 93 vendors we sampled, including a shell script and an open-source project. A certification means nothing without an auditor and a date, and we had neither, so that field is gone too. Funding status and integration lists went the same way. We host no reviews, so we publish no ratings.
We didn't just stop showing those fields. They're registered as unwritable, and a check in our build refuses any attempt to put them back. The rule lives in code, not in someone's memory.
What changes when a company claims its listing
A company can claim its record and manage it directly. Claimed profiles carry a verified badge, and the details the company supplies replace ours where they're more current. We review those edits before they publish, under the same rules as everything else: a claimed listing isn't a license to publish marketing copy on CIOPages. Claiming is a paid product. Correcting an error is not, and never will be.
A claimed listing can also offer its own material: up to three documents and one short video, shown under a “From the vendor” heading and labeled as theirs. This is the one place on CIOPages where the content isn't ours. Documents and video on a claimed listing are supplied and maintained by the vendor. We review them before publishing and will decline or withdraw anything that breaks our content standards, but we do not write them and we do not verify the claims they make. Downloading a document means giving the vendor your contact details, and the form says so before you fill it in. The video plays with no form in front of it.
Paid placement is a separate thing again. We always label it, and it stays in its own block beside our guides. It buys visibility, never coverage and never wording. how paid placements work.
Found something wrong?
Tell us. Every profile has a “report an issue” link. It costs nothing, and it works whether you're the company, a customer, or someone who just noticed. An out-of-date profile is failing at its only job.
Work at one of these companies?
Claim the record to manage it yourself, or just tell us what's wrong and we'll fix it.