Public value
Useful public listings
The target must create a visible product record that helps a relevant audience understand or discover an accepted product type.
- Public result
- Relevant audience
- Enough product information to be useful
Registry audit method
How a Directory Earns a Place in the Registry.
A directory can enter the production registry only after a manual review confirms a real public listing, an applicable audience, a usable free submission path, a verifiable workflow, acceptable safety, and a result that can be detected and recorded. Candidates are separated from production targets and can be paused or revoked.
Verified registry
Public value, a genuine free path, and a detectable safe result must coexist.
A directory does not qualify because it appears on another list or offers paid promotion. The current public workflow must meet every production standard.
Free path
A genuine route without mandatory payment
A reviewer verifies that a useful listing can be requested without a hidden fee, forced badge, reciprocal backlink, or automatic payment.
- Current path inspected
- Optional promotion stays separate
- Final-step conditions checked
Safe result
Repeatable workflow and detectable outcome
The account, fields, verification, legal confirmations, final action, and expected result must be understandable and safe enough to record.
- Manual flow can be repeated
- Known human-attention boundaries
- Result detector can distinguish states
Audit process
Six separate checks move a candidate toward a production release.
Discovery, manual audit, eligibility design, result detection, and release staging are intentionally separate states.
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Identify a documented candidate
Candidates come from public research, owner applications, builder feedback, existing market lists, or manual exploration.
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Verify accepted products and audience
Review public listings, categories, product types, regions, languages, pricing models, and known exclusions.
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Test the genuine free path
Inspect the current route through the final step and separate optional promotion from mandatory payment or placement conditions.
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Review workflow and safety boundaries
Record account scope, required fields, assets, verification, legal confirmations, host rules, and human-attention triggers.
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Define eligibility and result detection
Specify which Launch Master facts make the target applicable and which observable states support submitted, pending, existing, or failed results.
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Stage a versioned production record
A reviewed candidate still requires release staging before entering a signed registry used by real campaigns.
Registry states
Candidate, active, conditional, paused, revoked, and rejected are different decisions.
A named state explains whether a target can receive production writes and what must happen before that state changes.
State meaning
What the current registry state means.
Allowed next action
What the system may do next.
Field State meaning Allowed next action
Candidate Discovered or submitted for review; no production writes allowed. Needs full audit and release staging.
Active Passed the current audit and exists in an active signed release. Eligible campaigns may use it when the product fits.
Conditional Usable only under explicit product, region, platform, or workflow conditions. Eligibility rules must exclude every unsupported case.
Paused Temporarily removed from future matching because the current state is uncertain. Requires re-checking before another production release.
Revoked No longer meets the published standards or creates unacceptable risk. Removed from future production releases.
Rejected Failed the public value, free path, relevance, safety, or detectable-result standard. Cannot enter production without a materially different verified state.
Registry governance
Production targets are versioned, signed, reviewed, and revocable.
The public standards remain inspectable while the complete production registry stays controlled to reduce abuse and unsafe copying.
Versioned
Campaigns bind to a named registry release instead of an untracked live list.
Signed
Production data requires an integrity boundary before automatic browser writes can begin.
Reviewed
Discovery creates a candidate only. Manual audit and release staging remain separate.
Revocable
A changed free path, workflow, audience, ownership, safety state, or result can remove a target.
What is the audited registry?
The registry is a versioned production dataset of directory targets that have passed manual review. Each target includes the domain, accepted product types, free-path state, required assets, account scope, last audit date, risk flags, allowed hosts, and the expected result detector used by the campaign.
How is relevance matched to a product?
Matching uses the accepted product types, platforms, pricing models, languages, regions, categories, audience, required assets, account rules, and known exclusions stored with the target. The campaign includes only targets that fit the confirmed Launch Master and active policy.
Which risk signals cause rejection?
A candidate can be rejected for paid-only access, deceptive or unsafe redirects, spam or lead-collection behavior, missing public listings, forced reciprocal links, unrelated audience, unclear ownership, an unrepeatable flow, excessive legal risk, or an outcome that cannot be detected safely.
What does “submitted” mean?
Submitted means the campaign performed one verified final submit action and detected a destination state that supports the recorded result. It does not mean the directory has published or approved the listing. Pending editorial review remains a separate state.
How is estimated manual time saved calculated?
A public estimate must identify the task categories, sample, collection method, checked date, and limitations. The current development website does not publish a time-saved number because no completed benchmark dataset has passed the research publication gate.
What does the methodology not prove?
The methodology evaluates whether a target is useful, applicable, free, repeatable, and safe enough for the approved workflow. It does not prove that a listing will be approved, indexed, cited by an AI system, ranked in search, visited by a buyer, or converted into revenue.
Directory owners
The standards are public. Production inclusion cannot be bought.
Review the audit guidelines, prepare current evidence, and apply for a free manual review.