Free application
There is no fee to apply for a manual directory review.
Directory application
Apply for a Free Directory Review.
Tell us how your directory works, who it serves, and where builders can submit for free. Applications are reviewed manually. Submission does not guarantee approval or a review deadline.
Directory application promise
Free application, no paid acceleration, human review, and a public-listing requirement.
The application process evaluates current evidence. It is not a sales queue and does not sell registry access.
No paid acceleration
Payment cannot purchase faster review, priority, approval, or production inclusion.
Manual review
Every application is checked against the published public-value, free-path, relevance, and safety standards.
Public listing required
The directory must create a useful publicly accessible product result.
Evidence before submission
Show the audience, complete free path, ownership, and repeatable workflow.
The review needs observable current facts rather than a marketing pitch or an unsupported traffic claim.
Audience and value
Show who uses the directory and what the listing helps them discover.
Provide the accepted product types, audience purpose, example public listings, and evidence that the directory creates more than a private lead record.
Free path
Show the complete route to a useful listing without mandatory payment.
Disclose every fee, optional promotion, final-step condition, reciprocal-link request, badge requirement, and review stage.
Ownership and workflow
Show that the operator and submission process can be verified.
Provide ownership evidence, current URLs, required fields, account behavior, verification messages, review process, and correction route.
What the review needs
Every requested field maps to a specific audit decision.
The form avoids collecting unrelated information and explains how each evidence group supports a manual review.
Application evidence
The evidence supplied by the directory owner.
Review purpose
The audit question that evidence must answer.
Field Application evidence Review purpose
Identity Directory name, public URL, operator, work email, and ownership evidence. Confirm who is responsible for the application and current workflow.
Audience Accepted products, audience purpose, example listings, and audience evidence. Evaluate public value and product relevance.
Free path Submission URL, complete free route, fee disclosure, and optional promotion. Verify that payment is not required for a useful listing.
Workflow Required fields, account behavior, review process, result state, and correction route. Assess repeatability, safety, and result detection.
Status Verified work email and durable application receipt. Enter manual review without implying approval or release timing.
Production application workflow
Submit, verify, enter manual review, and receive a signed status result.
An application is a candidate record. Approval, release staging, and production inclusion remain separate decisions.
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Submit one atomic application
The server validates the complete application, duplicate state, abuse controls, and idempotency in one write operation.
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Verify the work email
A signed verification link confirms that the applicant can receive status and evidence requests.
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Receive a durable receipt
The applicant receives an opaque reference without exposing internal registry or review identifiers.
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Enter manual evidence review
A reviewer checks ownership, public value, audience, free path, workflow, safety, and expected result.
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Provide more evidence when requested
Missing or conflicting facts return as an evidence request rather than an automatic rejection or approval.
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Receive a signed status result
Approval remains separate from host-rule verification, release staging, and production registry publication.
Application evidence
Show how the listing works.
The review needs ownership, audience, free-path, example-listing, fee, and workflow evidence. Approval cannot be purchased and an application does not create a production target automatically.
Development preview: the application API, email verification, evidence
upload, and signed status route are not connected yet. This form does not send or store data.