This directory is neutral: no firm pays to be listed, to be placed higher or to be marked as checked. This page sets out the rules every region follows.
We look for firms ourselves rather than waiting for them to apply. Sources include other online directories, map listings, association member lists, lists that firms publish themselves, and the firms AI assistants name when asked the questions buyers ask (our AI answer probe). Each listing records where we first found the firm and on what date.
A source of this kind is where we start, not what we publish. From another directory we take only the firm's name and website, never its text. A firm named in an AI answer is a lead to check, never a fact about the firm. What a listing says comes from the firm's own website or an official register, each with its link and the date we read it.
Levels say how well we know a firm, not how good it is. They are never for sale.
| Level | Meaning | Shown as |
|---|---|---|
| Listed | Exists, basic public details, not yet checked by us | "Listed" |
| Checked | We verified the key facts against sources, dated | "Checked on YYYY-MM-DD" |
| Confirmed | The firm itself confirmed or corrected the listing | "Confirmed by the firm on YYYY-MM-DD" |
Every firm in the directory today (144) is at the first level, listed: nobody has yet checked a listing by hand, and no firm has yet confirmed one.
Every fact on a listing carries its provenance ("From the firm" or "From a public register"), its source link and the date it was read. A check older than 12 months is marked as old. A field we could not source stays empty rather than guessed.
The default order is mechanical and the same everywhere: by verification level (confirmed, then checked, then listed), then alphabetically by name. It is never by payment. The firms A to Z page of each region is alphabetical only.
Nothing on the site is paid for or for sale today: not listings, not placement, not levels. If anything paid is ever added, it will be labelled where it appears, it will not change the order of any list, and this page will say so first. We publish no ratings or reviews; if we ever add a score, its method will be published here.
Claiming a profile is free (For firms).
A profile shows at most one kind of picture, in this order, and says which it is:
We do not use firms' logos. Any firm or photographer can ask for a picture to be taken down through the correction page; it is removed within one working day and not shown again.
Pages on law, tax and visas are information, not advice. Each rule cites the regulation or official source it rests on, with the date it was read. A rule we cannot source is not published.
The directory is run by Matthew Downie, who lives in Bali. No payment, and no other dealings with a firm, changes the order of a list, a firm's verification level or what its profile says.
The directory sells nothing today (see nothing is paid for). If that changes, this page will first say who earns from it and how. Questions about any of this can be sent through the correction page.