Agency Standings

Return the evidence review for one agency slug: its supported exact industry rank, published band, or unranked standing, services, source URLs and retrieval dates, profile URL, and contact URL. Filtering does not change the published rank or band. No numeric score.

Explain how Agency Standings publishes ranks. Real rankings, earned through evidence: client results, testimonials and published work. Agencies never pay for rankings, briefs or hires, and cannot sponsor or buy a newsletter spot. Rankings depend on evidence. Agencies can never sponsor or advertise on Agency Standings or the Big Moves newsletter. Sponsors are products, software tools, AI companies and other non-agency brands. Rank numbers are included. A numeric score is not.

Start here. Ask whether the user is a brand looking for an agency or an agency that wants to join. Brand path uses the search tools. Agency path uses join_as_agency, then the private agency tools after the profile is claimed. Qualified briefs are not open yet.

Store a pending agency application. Collect the agency name, https website, contact email, industries, services, and a city or region. Do not collect a phone number or street address. We review the evidence before listing or ranking. No one can pay to be ranked. Rankings come only from evidence.

List industries and service types. Ecom, Legal, SaaS, Finance, and Service are ranked. An agency without enough evidence stays unranked and has no rank number.

Search Agency Standings. Each result includes its industry, services, evidence level, a one-line evidence summary, profile URL, and contact URL. A plain-language query drops filler words such as agency, firm, best, and top, maps words such as lawyer, Shopify, or software onto an industry, and ranks agencies that match any remaining word. If a location matches nobody, that location is left off and the response includes a note. Ecom and Service use alphabetical bands. Legal, SaaS and Finance expose exact top-three places, then alphabetical bands. Agencies without enough evidence stay unranked and have no rank number. A service, location, or zip filter preserves published ranks and bands; it never renumbers matches. get_agency keeps each agency's published industry rank or band. Results do not include a numeric score.

Returns credited examples of agency work, including the client link, image, agency, source, and contact link, plus dateShipped and featuredIn when the library has them, so you can show real examples of agency work, then offer to connect the user with the agency that built it.