External References & Claim
Reference projects found on company websites appear as external web results — claim your profile to take them over, or request their removal.
Beta — rolling out. External web results and the claim flow are being enabled gradually, starting with selected industries. If you don't see external results yet, they simply aren't switched on for your industry.
Alongside references that companies enter directly, the platform surfaces external references — project references automatically compiled from service providers' public websites and shown as short, source-linked results. The goal is a fuller industry catalog: visitors find more relevant projects, and the companies behind those projects can take control of their entry.
What external references are
External references are displayed like search-engine hits: a project title linking to the source page, a short excerpt, the company name, and the source domain. They always appear below the references entered on the platform and are clearly labelled as automatically compiled and not confirmed by the company.
They show up in two places:
- Search — a "More projects from the web" section beneath the native reference and company results.
- Industry pages — the same section beneath an industry's results, so thinner industries still show substance.
Only company and project facts are captured — names of individuals are never stored, no images are taken over, and only a short excerpt is shown (the full source stays on the company's own website).
Claiming your company profile
If your company's projects appear as external references, you can claim your profile for free and turn those excerpts into full references in your account.
Open your profile
Follow the "Your project? Claim it now" link on any external result, or open your claim landing page directly. It lists the projects found for your company.
Verify domain ownership
Enter an e-mail address on your company's domain. We send a confirmation link to that address — clicking it proves you belong to the domain. (If you're not signed in yet, register or log in first; you'll return to the claim afterwards.)
Take over references
Choose which found projects to take over. Each becomes a draft reference in your Reference Manager. Your plan's reference contingent applies — any surplus stays reserved for you and can be taken over after an upgrade.
Enrich and publish
In the manager, complete the drafts — add media, services and project properties, and clients — then publish them like any other reference.
When you take over a profile, its external results are removed from the public web section — your own, richer references replace them.
Taking over a project is far quicker than typing it from scratch: the title, description, location, and dates are pre-filled from your website. You confirm the rights to the content and publish.
Removing entries
You can have every entry for a domain removed permanently at any time — no account required.
- Open the crawler page at /crawler (the address the crawler identifies itself with) and use the removal form, or write to the platform team.
- Confirm via an e-mail address on the affected domain.
- All entries for that domain are removed within 72 hours, and the domain is excluded from future crawling.
About the crawler
The crawler that compiles external references identifies itself with the user agent referenzencom-crawler/1.0 and links back to its information page at /crawler. It respects robots.txt and noindex directives, requests pages with a delay, and never accesses content behind a login.
How external references are captured and stored, the legal basis, and your data-protection rights are described in the platform's privacy policy. External references contain only self-published business information and can be removed at any time.