Industries (Branches)

Industries — branches in platform terms — are the shared classification system of the platform: a hierarchical tree from broad sectors down to specialized niches. They organize discovery for visitors and define the structured fields of your reference forms.

The industry directory

/branches is the public directory: browse root industries and their sub-branches, filter the whole tree by keyword, or jump via the popular-industries shortcuts.

Industry pages

Every branch has a landing page (/branches/{id}):

• Breadcrumb of the industry path, name, and description
• For broader industries: a grid of sub-industry cards with reference and company counts
• For specialized industries: the full result list of references and companies in that branch, with the complete faceted filter rail — including the branch's own project properties as filters
• Map view of the references, sharing via Copy link, and print/PDF export

Industry pages are where prospects who don't know your company yet find you: your published references appear here automatically, filterable by everything you structured.

Suggesting a new industry

The tree is curated by the platform team, but anyone can propose additions. Suggest one (available on the directory, in registration, and inline in the reference form and master data) opens a dialog: proposed name, parent industry, synonyms, and a message. The platform team reviews suggestions and builds approved branches with their full metadata structure.

Branch experts

Branch experts are experienced practitioners whom the platform team authorizes to help curate a branch's metadata — its work fields, services, and property definitions. Experts get an additional workspace area (/my/branch-expert) where they can add and refine the branch structure, with per-branch editing and release rights.

If you are deeply at home in your industry and want its structure to be excellent, contact the platform team about becoming a branch expert.