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 assemble the Directory from public sources — vendor websites, open catalogs of the software landscape, and our own category research — so that a buyer looking up a category sees it whole. Each record starts as a name, a website and a place in our taxonomy. The written parts of the profile are then drafted from the company's own public pages using automated tooling, large language models included, and every factual field is checked back against those pages before it renders.
That drafting is a starting point, not an authority. Where a claim cannot be traced to the vendor's own material, it does not appear — an empty field is better than a confident invention.
What each part of a profile claims
A profile carries three different kinds of statement, and we keep them apart deliberately, because they can be wrong in different ways.
- Facts about the company— the summary line, the description, headquarters, founding year, pricing model. These can be checked and are meant to be. They render only with the vendor's own page behind them.
- Our analysis of the category — how buyers evaluate this kind of software, drawn from the matching Buyer Guide and attributed to the CIOPages Research Team. This is our point of view about a market, 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. No truth claim beyond being the right pointer.
What we removed, and why
In August 2026 we audited what our own profiles were asserting, and cut the fields that could not survive it. Per-vendor capability lists were unsupported by the vendor's own site in 96 of 100 sampled records, and some carried invented specifics; they are gone, replaced by category-level evaluation criteria that name the guide they come from. Compliance badges asserted the identical certification for 93 of 93 vendors sampled, including a shell script and an open-source project; a certification is only meaningful with 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.
Those fields are not merely unrendered. They are registered as unwritable, and a check in our build refuses any attempt to reintroduce them. The rule is enforced in code rather than remembered.
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 company's own supplied details replace ours where they are more current. Those edits are reviewed before they publish, under the same rules as everything else: a claimed listing is not a licence to publish marketing copy on CIOPages. Claiming is a paid product; correcting an error is not, and never will be.
Paid placement is a separate thing again, always labelled, and confined to its own module beside our guides. It buys visibility, never coverage or 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 are the company, a customer, or a passer-by who noticed. A profile that is out of date is a profile failing at its only job.
Represent one of these companies?
Claim the record to manage it yourself, or just tell us what is wrong and we will fix it.