Browse the Articled Approved Organization Directory
One page, three fields per entry, no ranking and nothing for sale. The directory exists so a badge has somewhere to point, and it is short enough to read in a single sitting.
How the Articled Approved Organization Directory Works
The list is located on the hub for approved organizations, and each entry is formatted with an organization’s name, the field they publish in, and the year the organization was approved. Each entry does not have a score, a review section, or a star rating, and there is no profile page. There are only text entries in a grid. The grid is formatted so that it is clearly not fashionable, and because each field would suggest standards that could not be upheld, there are no additional fields.
Ordering means nothing. There is no ranking, no featured tier, no sponsored slot and no way to pay for position or for inclusion. Buying content from Articled does not put an organization on the list or move it up. As soon as a directory can be bought into, every entry in it becomes a purchase in the reader’s mind, including the honest ones.
Browsing is faster than searching in this case, as there’s no search box because the list can easily be scanned in a minute. Since nothing on this page would require us to build an index, we’re not pretending to a scale we do not have. Your browser’s find command is more efficient at finding a specific name than any control we could make.
- Ratings, scores or any ordering that implies one member outranks another.
- Paid placement, featured slots or a way to buy inclusion.
- Reviews, testimonials or traffic figures for listed organizations.
- A public record of organizations that were removed or left.
- An API, export file or automated lookup endpoint.
Who Appears in the Articled Approved Organization Directory
The only qualification to be listed in our directory is having signed the commitment, passed a first sample, and answered the most recent compliance check. Being a member of an organization does not make someone a client, sponsor, or partner. An organization that has never commissioned an article from Articled is shown in the same manner as an organization that commissions articles each month. A two-person newsletter is in the same directory as a company with a large content team.
Names are printed as readers will find them. As a publisher, we are listed under our masthead as that is how readers will find us. Legal entities are retained on file. Readers are drawing upon a mental image of a masthead rather than a registration number where they may be checking a badge. We provide both items where there is enough disparity to possibly create confusion. If you have a name that appears on a site that is not clearly matching the name listed on our database, please feel free to reach out.
Groups that resign cease to exist on the site. Records are not kept for groups that have been expired, revoked, or are under review. We have no public listing of former groups. A public delisting notice is punitive, and we have a process, an appeal, and a significant amount of work that far exceeds what a free service is, to levy a punitive response. For confirmation requests of private nature, we can confirm whether a group was ever on the site and when it was taken off.
- The organization signed the commitment and named the person who signed it.
- A public policy page on its own site says the same thing.
- A first sample of its published work has been run and cleared.
- The most recent annual check was answered by a person.
- The badge on its site links back to this directory.
How the Articled Approved Organization Directory Is Maintained
The maintenance process is automated and happens once a year per member. Each member has an anniversary to sign and a sample collection date. They complete their renewal once the sample clears. The year for the sample becomes the year of collection. During the anniversary year, the information source may be added, deleted, revised or a correction may be added due to a Reader Report.
As broken links remain the most prevalent error by far, we check if the badge connects back to our site by periodically visiting the sites on the list. Footers get copied between projects, and before anyone notices, rebuilds break links. The process results in a short list of complaints sent to members rather than enforcement actions, as broken links are maintenance issues, and it would be silly to treat those as infractions.
An honest caveat is that directories show their last check and not the case as of the moment. An organization may sign and mean it, can change its practice the following week, and the entry would be the same until the next sample or report is done. Dates are provided for that reason. An entry should be read as a statement made about a confirmed moment in time and the date should be used to determine how recent that moment was.
Absence is not a verdict
Most companies that write by hand, are not on this list and never will be. A missing name shows that nothing was checked, not that something was found. Use the list to verify, never to accuse.
Articled Approved Organization Directory FAQs
To search for a specific name, you can either read through the approved organizations or, if your browser has the option, use the Find command. There is currently no search option, as the requested information fits on one or two screens. Having a search box would give the impression that we have a much more extensive database than what we actually have.
Send a policy page that does not include generative writing, a signed commitment, and an email to hello@articled.org for checks. Include a contact for checks. We will sample three pieces from your archive. We respond within ten working days with no cost or obligation to you.
No. A machine-readable feed would be used to build comparison tables and vendor scorecards. This reading is not supported by the standard. If you require the list for a procurement file, feel free to request a formally dated list with a definition of the list and what the presence of the list means from us.
No. We do not do this for our writers, and we publish our checks, but listing ourselves in a directory that is managed by and for ourselves would be useless as a signal. You should read our no-AI policy and verification pages and make your own assessment regarding those.
Usually, you should be, because that’s the name the reader will see on site where badge will be displayed. We retain the legal entity on file for the commitment itself and print both when the difference is significant enough to create confusion among people checking.
Slowly. Most months see no changes, some see one addition, and removals are rare. If a directory were to churn, that means lax approval or a standard that is impossible for someone to maintain. Therefore, a quiet directory is a good sign.
The directory will remain plain. Most of the time people send requests, it’s for features that would make the directory micro-marketing, versus the core functionality of a checklist. Which of those is the sole purpose of the directory?
Content a person actually wrote
$10 per 100 words, and the writer keeps all of it. Our 1% sits on top, 0.5% goes to trees, and no generated text appears anywhere in the process.