Publishing Your Company to the Directory
How company owners turn public visibility on and off, what gets published, and how moderation and admin release interact with the owner's choice.
Owners and manager-role team members of a company decide whether the company appears in the public directory and on its public profile page. No admin review is required to publish or to withdraw a managed company profile.
Where the control lives
Open your company workspace and go to Connect › Directory, then choose the Marketplace view. The Directory Visibility card shows the current state and a single switch:
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Company is not public yet | No directory listing has been published. The company is not discoverable and its public page is 404. |
| Company is public | A published listing exists. The company is discoverable and /c/<slug> renders the public profile. |
| Company is hidden | The listing was withdrawn by its owner. Earlier published versions are retained. |
| Visibility controlled by moderation | Moderation has blocked or archived the listing. The switch is disabled until moderation lifts it. |
Turning visibility on
Complete the company record first. The listing is built from the record's name, logo, overview, location, type, website, and social links. Missing facts simply stay absent; nothing is invented.
Turn the Directory Visibility switch on. Sureshake provisions a directory listing if the company has none, refreshes the listing's canonical facts from the company record, and publishes an immutable public version.
Use View public profile to open the public page, or Manage Directory listing to curate the listing's sections and composition.
Publishing applies the safe default visibility policy: direct email, direct phone, and street address stay hidden unless you explicitly enable them on the listing. Private filings and permissioned content are never published by this switch.
Turning visibility off
Turn the switch off to withdraw the company from the directory. The public page stops resolving, discovery stops immediately, and pending follow requests, existing relationships, and grants are preserved. Turning the switch back on restores the record; if nothing changed, the previously published version is reused rather than duplicated.
What the switch does not change
- Field-level visibility on the startup profile (Public, Follower, Capital, Diligence) controls who sees each fact once the company is public. It does not publish the company by itself.
- Public-records consent on the marketplace profile is a separate acknowledgement and does not publish the company.
- Admin release remains available to Sureshake operators. An admin release and an owner publish converge on the same listing, so neither can drift from the other. An admin withdrawal takes precedence over the owner's switch until the company is released again.
API
The switch is backed by one REST resource, available to owners and manager-role
team members with the listing.manage capability:
GET /v2/directory/entity-profile/{entityId}/publication # current state
POST /v2/directory/entity-profile/{entityId}/publication # publish
DELETE /v2/directory/entity-profile/{entityId}/publication # unpublishGET and DELETE return the publication state; POST returns the confirmed
published version. See the Directory API reference.
Claiming and Verifying Your Organization's Profile
Who can claim a directory profile, what claiming does and does not do, and how the review process works.
Following Profiles and Requesting Access
How following a directory profile works, when access requests are available, and how owner-approved permissioned access behaves.