Any questions on Atlas?

Atlas is a professional platform designed to help users discover, compare, and better understand software companies, products, and technology ecosystems.

Atlas combines verified professional identities, company stacks, community insights, reviews, and AI-powered discovery tools to create a trusted map of the software world.

The platform allows professionals to:

• explore software categories and vendors,
• understand which companies use which tools,
• share feedback and product experience,
• discover trusted recommendations from real professionals,
• and learn from the workflows and stacks used by other companies.

Atlas focuses on transparency, professional identity, and high-quality information in order to reduce fake reviews, anonymous spam, and misleading content commonly found on traditional review platforms.

Atlas is designed for two types of professionals.

Software buyers: operations, finance, HR, marketing, or IT teams looking to discover, compare, and evaluate software tools for their company. Atlas helps them find relevant products based on verified reviews from peers in similar roles and industries.

Software vendors: SaaS companies and AI solution providers who want to manage their public presence, showcase their products, engage with customer feedback, and understand how they fit within the broader software ecosystem.

Both audiences benefit from the same core principle: information that comes from real professionals, verified through their company email, rather than anonymous or incentivized sources.

Most review platforms allow anyone to create an account and leave a review. Atlas takes a different approach: every user is verified through their professional email address, which links them to a real company. This means that reviews come from identifiable professionals with actual product experience.

Beyond reviews, Atlas maps the software ecosystem: which companies use which tools, how stacks evolve over time, and which products are genuinely adopted across industries.

Atlas was also built around a specific vision of the software market. To learn more about what drives the project, visit our Atlas Project & Vision page.

You can browse certain public information on Atlas without an account, such as company pages and general product information.

However, accessing reviews, stack data, and community insights requires a verified Atlas account. Creating an account is free and requires a professional email address linked to a recognized company domain.

Getting started on Atlas takes just a few minutes. Here are the four steps:

1. Verify your account - sign up with your professional email address. Atlas will send you a verification email to confirm your identity and link you to your company.

2. Choose your team - indicate which team or department you belong to within your company. This helps Atlas provide more relevant insights and comparisons.

3. Build your stack - add at least 5 tools you use professionally. This is the foundation of your contribution to the Atlas ecosystem.

4. Leave your first review - share your experience with one of the tools in your stack. Your review helps other professionals make better decisions.

Once these steps are complete, you have full access to the platform and your Tech Guide journey begins.

Yes. Atlas is free for users who want to explore companies, software products, reviews, and community insights.

Claiming and managing a company page is also free. Companies that claim their page can edit and manage their public information.

Some advanced features, premium tools, or company management capabilities may become paid features in the future, but the core Atlas experience is intended to remain accessible to professionals and teams.

Atlas is currently available in English only. Additional languages may be introduced as the platform grows.

Atlas is built around trusted professional identities and real company ecosystems. Requiring a professional email address helps Atlas:

• reduce fake accounts and spam,
• improve the quality and credibility of reviews,
• verify professional relationships between users and companies,
• and create a more trustworthy software discovery platform.

Who is eligible: access to Atlas requires a professional email address linked to a verified company or company domain. Personal email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook are restricted in order to maintain platform trust and verification standards.

Freelancers, students, and independent consultants: independent professionals need an established business or company with a public website and a dedicated professional email domain associated with that website. Users relying only on personal email providers without a verified professional domain are not eligible for access.

When a user signs up, Atlas automatically reads the domain of their professional email address and compares it against the companies already referenced on the platform.

There are three possible outcomes:

1. The domain matches a known company: the user account is created immediately and automatically linked to that company.

2. The domain is professional but unknown: the account is placed in a pending state. An Atlas administrator will then either associate the domain with an existing company or create a new company entry for it. Once validated, the user gains full access to the platform and is linked to the corresponding company.

3. The domain belongs to a personal email provider (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc.): registration is not permitted.

This matching process runs automatically at signup. A user can only be associated with one company at a time, and their company association updates automatically if they later change their professional email address.

If you leave your company or lose access to your professional email address, your Atlas account remains active, but your verification status and platform permissions may change depending on your situation.

1. You do not yet have a new verified professional email address

If you leave your company and cannot yet verify a new professional email associated with another company, your account will transition to an "unassigned user" status.

In this case:

• you can still access Atlas,
• browse companies, software, and reviews,
• keep your profile and contribution history,
• and retain the benefits associated with your Tech Guide level.

However, some contribution features may become restricted until a new professional identity is verified. For example, you may no longer be able to publish new reviews, update stack information, or update certain professional activity signals.

2. You join a new company and obtain a new professional email

If you join a new company with a valid professional email domain, you can recover and reconnect your Atlas account. In many cases, you can log in using your personal recovery email, verify your new professional email address, and associate your account with your new company.

Your profile, Tech Guide level, reviews, and contribution history are not affected by a change of company and will continue to follow you across your professional career, subject to Atlas policies and verification rules.

Note that if you held ownership over your previous company page, this ownership is automatically revoked when your company association changes. Ownership on Atlas can only be held over the company you are currently associated with.

When you create your Atlas account, you are asked to provide a personal email address in addition to your professional email. This personal email is not used for verification or displayed anywhere on the platform.

Its main purpose is account recovery. If you ever lose access to your professional email - for example, when leaving a company - your personal email allows you to log back into your account and link it to a new professional email address once you have one.

Atlas recommends keeping your personal email up to date so you can always recover access to your profile, contribution history, and Tech Guide level, regardless of professional changes.

Professional email: No. Atlas does not publicly display users' professional email addresses. Your email address is primarily used for identity verification, account security, company association, and trust and moderation systems.

Your profile: At the moment, Atlas does not provide a public directory or search engine allowing users to discover individual Atlas profiles. User profiles are currently private by default. While users contribute to reviews, stack intelligence, and ecosystem data, their personal profiles are not publicly searchable or accessible through Atlas.

Similarly, a user's personal software stack is also private by default and is not publicly displayed without the user's explicit consent.

Atlas may introduce optional public professional profiles in the future. If this happens, users will always be informed and asked for explicit permission before making their profile or stack public.

Atlas is built around verified professional identities and verified company domains.

Each company on Atlas is associated with one or more official email domains that can be used to validate user accounts. Each user must verify a professional email address linked to a company domain recognized by Atlas.

To strengthen trust and prevent abuse:

• each email address can only be associated with a single Atlas account,
• personal email providers alone are not sufficient for verification,
• and accounts may be subject to additional moderation or verification checks.

This system helps reduce fake accounts, impersonation, spam, coordinated manipulation, fraudulent reviews, and identity fraud. Atlas combines domain verification, moderation systems, automated detection tools, and manual review processes to maintain the integrity of the platform.

By prioritizing verified identities and company relationships, Atlas aims to improve review quality, reduce anonymous manipulation, create more reliable software insights, and build a more trusted professional ecosystem.

Many companies operate with multiple email domains due to subsidiaries, regional entities, acquisitions, or different business units.

Atlas allows companies to associate multiple verified domains with the same company. Company administrators may be able to suggest or add additional professional domains associated with their company. Atlas may request verification to confirm ownership or affiliation before validating those domains.

Atlas references two main types of companies:

• Vendors: companies that develop or sell software products, SaaS platforms, or AI agents.
• Buyers: companies that use software and technology products as part of their operations.

Vendor pages may include software products and AI agents, product reviews, company information, integrations, and customer ecosystem information.

Buyer pages focus on the technology stack used by the company, based on aggregated and verified user contributions from employees and admins associated with the company.

A company may appear on Atlas because users from that company contribute to the platform, Atlas detects ecosystem and stack signals, public company information exists online, or the company operates within the software and technology ecosystem.

To have a vendor page on Atlas, a company must offer an actual software product, platform, API, or AI solution.

Service companies such as marketing agencies, SEO agencies, consultants, freelancers, or implementation partners are generally not eligible for a vendor page unless they also sell their own software product.

If a service company has developed its own software product or AI solution, eligibility for a vendor page may be reviewed by the Atlas team on a case-by-case basis. Atlas reserves the right to determine whether the product qualifies as a standalone software offering within the platform ecosystem.

Any company with a public website, a professional domain name, and verified professional email addresses may appear on Atlas as a buyer company. Buyer pages display the software stack used by the company, based on aggregated user contributions and ecosystem data.

Atlas combines multiple sources of information, including:

• publicly available company information,
• official company websites,
• integrations and ecosystem signals,
• and verified company updates.

Companies that claim their page can also directly manage and update their information on Atlas. Atlas may use automated systems and AI-assisted processes to organize and structure ecosystem data, while moderation and verification processes help maintain quality and accuracy.

An "Unclaimed Page" means that a company has not yet verified ownership or started managing its presence on Atlas.

Companies can claim their page in order to update their information, manage their profile, respond to reviews, enrich their company data, and participate more actively in the Atlas ecosystem. Until a page is claimed, some information may rely on public sources.

Some company pages may initially contain limited or partial information because they are automatically generated from public data or ecosystem signals.

Companies that claim their page can enrich and manage their profile directly by adding descriptions, integrations, categories, logos, websites, and additional company information.

In most cases, Atlas does not remove publicly referenced company pages unless there is a specific legal obligation to do so. Atlas operates as a professional discovery and information platform, similar to other public business directories and review ecosystems.

However, companies may claim their page, request corrections to inaccurate information, report illegal or fraudulent content, or contact Atlas regarding specific legal or moderation concerns.

Atlas reviews removal requests on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable laws and platform policies.

Atlas rankings are primarily based on:

• the relevance of a product or company to the user's context,
• ecosystem proximity,
• and verified reviews and usage signals.

Rankings may vary depending on factors such as the user's industry, company size, geography, stack ecosystem, or operational use cases. Atlas aims to prioritize relevant and trustworthy recommendations rather than generic popularity alone.

No.

At the moment, companies cannot pay to improve their ranking or artificially increase their visibility within Atlas results. Rankings are based on ecosystem relevance, verified usage data, and reviews - not on advertising spend. Atlas currently does not display advertising within rankings or search results.

It is possible that sponsored placements or advertising features may be introduced in the future. If this happens, Atlas intends to clearly distinguish sponsored content from organic rankings in order to preserve transparency and user trust.

Claiming a company page on Atlas generally happens in two steps.

1. Create and verify your Atlas account

First, you must create an Atlas account and complete the onboarding process using a professional email address associated with your company. Atlas will send a verification email to confirm that your professional email address is valid and that the email domain is associated with the company you want to claim.

2. Submit a page claim request

After your account is associated with the company, you can request to claim the company page directly from the company profile on Atlas. You must have a verified professional email domain associated with the company and provide a short explanation describing why you are requesting access to the page.

Atlas will manually review the request to verify the identity of the requester, their relationship with the company, and the legitimacy of the claim request. Once approved, authorized users can begin managing the company page and its information.

Claiming a page allows companies to:

• update and enrich their company information, stack, and clients,
• manage logos, descriptions, categories, and integrations,
• improve data accuracy,
• and participate more actively in the Atlas ecosystem.

Claimed pages may also benefit from additional features and ecosystem tools over time.

Yes. A company page can generally be managed by multiple verified team members associated with the same company and professional domain.

In most cases, company page claim requests are reviewed within 48 hours.

Atlas manually verifies the identity of the requester, their relationship with the company, and the legitimacy of the claim request. This verification process is important because claiming a page grants access to editing capabilities that can significantly impact a company's public presence on Atlas.

Additional verification steps may occasionally be required for certain companies, domains, or sensitive requests.

Vendors can add up to 8 products on Atlas.

In many cases, however, it may be more relevant to have a single product page if the platform is sold as one unified solution and customers cannot purchase separate products independently.

A product on Atlas should be a standalone software offering with its own positioning or use case, and represent more than a simple feature or module. The goal is to avoid turning individual features into separate products, which could make company pages difficult to understand and reduce the quality of software comparisons on the platform.

Yes. Once a company page has been claimed, authorized administrators can manage the products associated with the company. This may include adding products, updating products, or requesting the removal of existing products.

Deletion requests may require manual review by the Atlas team and can take a few days to process. Atlas reserves the right to review product structures to ensure that listed products correspond to legitimate standalone software offerings rather than simple features or marketing variations.

A company stack on Atlas is built collaboratively from aggregated user contributions and ecosystem signals.

When verified users associated with a company add tools to their personal stack, Atlas may use this information to identify which software products are used within the company. Company stacks are calculated using multiple signals, including verified employee contributions, stack consistency across users, ecosystem and integration data, and platform verification systems.

A company's stack on Atlas is mostly built in two ways.

Automatically, from employee contributions - when at least two verified employees independently add the same tool to their personal stack, that tool is automatically reflected in the company's stack. This ensures that the company stack represents tools that are genuinely shared across the company, rather than individual preferences. A tool added this way remains in the company stack as long as at least two employees still have it in their personal stack.

Manually, by an administrator - verified administrators can also add or remove tools directly from their company page management interface, independently of individual employee stacks.

This combination of collective contributions and manual management ensures that a company's stack reflects real usage across the company, while still giving administrators control over what is publicly displayed.

When adding a tool to your personal stack, Atlas asks you to specify how you use it professionally. This helps provide more meaningful context to the broader community.

You can describe your relationship to a tool as one of the following:

• Administrator: you manage, configure, or were actively involved in selecting or implementing this tool for your company. This role also applies to buyers and anyone who played a hands-on role in rolling out the solution.
• Frequent user: you use this tool regularly as part of your day-to-day work.
• Occasional user: you use this tool from time to time for specific tasks.

The role you select is also used to pre-fill the relevant field when you write a review for that tool, so your feedback always reflects your actual level of experience with it.

For users: Your personal stack is private on Atlas and is not publicly visible. To actively use the platform, each user must keep at least 5 tools in their stack. Users can freely add or remove tools at any time, as long as this minimum is respected.

If you wish to remove all tools from your stack, you can choose to delete your Atlas account. In that case, you will lose access to the platform, your contribution history, and your Tech Guide level and associated benefits.

For companies: Companies displayed on Atlas must also keep at least 5 public tools in their stack. Company stacks are generated from aggregated user contributions and verified ecosystem data, and maintaining a minimum public stack helps preserve the usefulness and integrity of the platform.

However, companies may remove or hide tools they consider inaccurate, sensitive, strategic, or no longer actively used. Requests to remove tools for strategic or sensitive reasons must include clear, objective, serious, and documented justifications. General preference, branding considerations, or convenience alone are typically not sufficient grounds for removal.

Yes. Companies can choose to hide specific tools from their public stack visibility while still keeping them associated with their internal Atlas stack data. However, companies displayed on Atlas must still maintain at least 5 publicly visible tools in their stack.

Hidden tools remain available in the company's back-office environment but are no longer visible to other Atlas users or displayed publicly on the platform.

No, in most cases. Atlas primarily focuses on publicly known software products, SaaS tools, APIs, and technology platforms. Private internal tools, confidential systems, or proprietary software developed exclusively for internal company use are generally not intended to appear publicly on Atlas.

If such tools are detected or submitted by mistake, companies may request their removal.

Yes. Administrators associated with a vendor company page can suggest their product to client companies directly from the client management section of their Atlas page.

To do this, you must be an authorized administrator of your company's vendor page, access your company client list, and send a stack suggestion to one of your clients.

The client company will then receive a notification inviting its administrators to confirm that the tool is actually used within their company. A tool is only added publicly to a client stack after validation by administrators associated with the client company.

Client logos displayed on a vendor page are generated from user-declared software usage within Atlas and market data collected by the platform.

Vendor companies can remove up to 30% of the client references displayed on their page, particularly when a client no longer uses the product or the reference is inaccurate.

If you remove a client from your vendor page, the client logo and public reference will be removed from your company page on Atlas. However, removing a client reference from a vendor page does not remove the vendor's tool from the client company's stack. Only the client company itself can remove a tool from its own stack.

When a client removes a vendor tool from its stack, the client logo is automatically removed from the vendor page, and the ecosystem relationship disappears from public visibility. This approach is designed to preserve client confidentiality, stack ownership, and the integrity of ecosystem data on Atlas.

Atlas uses a combination of professional identity verification, company domain validation, behavioral analysis, moderation systems, and ecosystem consistency checks to improve the authenticity and reliability of reviews.

Reviews are linked to verified professional accounts associated with real companies. Atlas may also use automated and manual review processes to detect suspicious activity, fake reviews, conflicts of interest, or coordinated manipulation.

Atlas is built around verified professional identities and does not allow fully anonymous reviews from unverified users.

However, public reviews don't necessarily display the full identity of the reviewer. When publishing a review, users can choose to appear as an anonymous employee of their company.

In every case, Atlas has internally verified the legitimacy of the reviewer.

Atlas prohibits reviews that:

• are fake or misleading,
• contain defamatory or illegal content,
• involve impersonation or identity fraud,
• are generated through coordinated manipulation,
• contain hate speech, harassment, threats, or abusive language,
• disclose confidential information,
• or intentionally misrepresent product usage.

Incentivized reviews and promotional spam are also prohibited. Employees are not allowed to review their own company, products, or AI agents in a misleading or promotional way.

No. Atlas identifies competitive relationships between companies and restricts users associated with competing companies from reviewing each other's products or companies.

This helps reduce conflicts of interest, unfair commercial influence, coordinated attacks, and manipulation of ratings and reputation. Atlas intentionally adopts a broader interpretation of competitive ecosystems in order to remain precautionary. As a result, some users may be prevented from reviewing certain companies even if they do not consider themselves direct competitors.

No. Companies cannot remove authentic negative reviews simply because they disagree with them or consider them unfavorable.

However, Atlas may remove reviews that violate the law, breach platform policies, are fraudulent, contain conflicts of interest, or fail moderation and authenticity checks.

Atlas uses a combination of identity verification, company domain validation, behavioral analysis, and manual investigation processes to detect suspicious content.

Reporting a review: Users and companies can report reviews directly through the Atlas platform. When submitting a report, users may be asked to provide contextual information, supporting evidence, or explanations regarding the suspected issue.

After a review is reported: Atlas may review the content, analyze behavioral and ecosystem signals, request additional verification, temporarily limit visibility, or remove the review if it violates platform policies. Review investigations may take time depending on the complexity of the case and the evidence available.

Yes. Only verified contributors who have successfully claimed a company page can respond publicly to reviews associated with that company.

To be authorized to respond to reviews, a user must have a professional email address associated with the company domain, complete Atlas account verification, and submit a successful company page claim request reviewed by the Atlas team.

Company responses must remain professional, respectful, factual, and compliant with Atlas policies. Atlas may moderate or remove abusive, misleading, or inappropriate responses.

While still at the company: Users can edit or delete reviews associated with tools used in their current company stack. As long as a user remains verified within the same company ecosystem, they may update their reviews, modify ratings, or remove reviews entirely.

After leaving the company: When a user leaves a company, reviews associated with the stack of their previous employer become more restricted in order to preserve the integrity of historical ecosystem data and prevent abuse. In this case, users can still delete their previous reviews if they wish, but they can no longer edit those reviews, add new tools to the previous company stack, or modify historical stack information associated with their former employer.

A review may be removed if it:

• violates Atlas policies,
• contains fraudulent or misleading information,
• involves a conflict of interest,
• fails authenticity verification,
• or breaches legal or moderation standards.

Atlas reserves the right to moderate content in order to protect platform integrity, ecosystem reliability, and user trust.

A Tech Guide is a profile level on Atlas that reflects a user's contribution quality within the platform ecosystem. Tech Guides help Atlas identify trusted users who actively share software insights and reviews.

The system is designed to encourage authentic operational feedback, high-quality reviews, and long-term contribution to the platform.

For everything about Tech Guide levels, how they work, and how to progress, visit the dedicated Tech Guide page.

Atlas offers different review formats depending on the level of detail provided by the reviewer.

• Quick Reviews are short and lightweight reviews designed to capture fast feedback and ratings.
• Classic Reviews provide more structured insights about product usage and experience.
• Rich Reviews are detailed reviews that include deeper operational feedback, workflows, use cases, strengths, limitations, and implementation context.

At the moment, Atlas does not provide public profile visibility or searchable expert directories.

However, users who actively participate in the ecosystem through high-quality reviews, trusted expertise, and meaningful contributions may progressively gain reputation and ecosystem recognition within the platform.

Atlas may introduce additional professional visibility, expert discovery, or community features in the future. If public profiles become available, users will be informed and asked for explicit consent before their profile or contributions become publicly searchable.

Atlas may use AI-assisted systems to help detect fake reviews, spam, abusive content, suspicious behavior, coordinated manipulation, and conflicts of interest.

AI moderation tools help prioritize and analyze potentially problematic content, but important moderation decisions may also involve human review and verification processes. Atlas aims to combine automation and human oversight to maintain platform quality and reliability.

Atlas uses AI and ecosystem intelligence to improve software discovery, search relevance, recommendations, category matching, and ecosystem analysis. Atlas aims to provide contextual and operationally relevant recommendations rather than generic rankings.

Visible to everyone (including visitors without an account): company pages, general product information, software categories, and basic ecosystem data.

Visible to logged-in users only: reviews, detailed stack signals, ecosystem relationships, integrations, and community insights. This information requires a verified Atlas account to access.

Always private by default: personal user profiles are not publicly searchable, personal stacks are not visible to others, and professional email addresses are never shown publicly. Atlas may introduce the option to make your stack public in the future, but this will only happen with your explicit consent and will never be activated without your knowledge.

How private data is protected: Atlas is designed to balance ecosystem transparency with company and user privacy. User personal stacks are private by default. Companies can also request that certain sensitive or strategic tools be hidden from public visibility while still remaining associated internally with their stack data. Atlas maintains safeguards to prevent confidential ecosystem information from being unnecessarily exposed publicly.

Some public ecosystem information may be generated from aggregated contributions, verified usage signals, and publicly available company data.

Atlas aims to handle personal data responsibly and in accordance with applicable privacy regulations. Personal data may be used for account verification, security, fraud prevention, moderation, and platform functionality - never for commercial purposes or sold to third parties.

Atlas gives users control over their data whenever possible. You can request the deletion of your account and personal data at any time, and update your personal information directly from your profile settings.

No. Atlas does not sell personal user data to third parties. Atlas may use aggregated, anonymized, or ecosystem-level insights to improve platform functionality, analytics, and recommendations, but does not sell individual personal profiles or private user information.

Yes. Users may request the deletion of their personal data or Atlas account in accordance with applicable laws and platform policies.

Some information may be retained when necessary for legal compliance, fraud prevention, security, moderation history, or ecosystem integrity purposes. Atlas reviews deletion requests on a case-by-case basis and aims to comply with applicable privacy regulations.

Atlas prohibits content that is illegal, fraudulent, defamatory, or misleading, as well as content that promotes harassment, hate speech, impersonation, or manipulation of reviews and rankings. Fake reviews, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and abusive commercial behavior are also prohibited.

Atlas reviews reports of potentially defamatory content and may remove or restrict anything that contains false factual claims or is intended to damage someone's reputation. At the same time, Atlas protects legitimate user feedback and genuine operational opinions.

If content violates applicable laws, Atlas may remove it, restrict its visibility, or suspend the accounts involved. To report illegal content, contact Atlas through the support channels available on the platform and include a description of the content, the reason for your request, and any relevant supporting information.

Legal concerns and formal requests can be submitted through the support and legal contact channels available on the platform.

Atlas is committed to complying with applicable privacy and platform regulations, including GDPR and the Digital Services Act (DSA). In practice, this means you have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data, and that Atlas is required to act on reports of illegal content within defined timeframes. Atlas continuously updates its policies as regulations evolve.

Yes. Atlas may suspend or permanently ban accounts that violate platform policies, engage in fraud, manipulate reviews, or repeatedly abuse the ecosystem.

Atlas data is updated continuously through user contributions, company updates, ecosystem signals, moderation processes, and platform synchronization systems.

Some information may update in near real time, while other ecosystem or verification-related changes may require additional review and validation. Atlas aims to prioritize data quality and reliability over pure update speed.

No, not at the moment. Atlas does not currently provide public APIs, developer access, or external ecosystem access tools.

The platform is currently focused on building and validating the core product, ecosystem data quality, and moderation systems before opening broader developer capabilities. APIs, integrations, or developer access features may be introduced in the future.

Yes. Atlas is designed as a continuously evolving software ecosystem platform. New software categories, AI-related ecosystems, integrations, contribution systems, community features, and discovery capabilities may be added progressively over time.

Atlas continuously adapts to changes in the software, SaaS, and AI landscape in order to improve platform relevance and ecosystem intelligence.