Journal · Product note
Why we publish the industry map
Why the people, companies, collections and opportunities inside Virtual Publicist are readable without an account — and what we keep private.
August 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Why is the industry data public instead of locked behind the product?
Because a map you cannot inspect is a map you cannot trust. The structure — who exists, what they cover, when we last verified it — is public and checkable. Artist profiles are public only when the artist publishes them. What always stays private is the part that belongs to you: your matches, your outreach and your correspondence.
Contact dumps age badly
The music industry runs on lists that were true once. Spreadsheets circulate for years after the writers have moved on and the labels have folded, and nobody who sells them is accountable for what happens next.
The fix is not a better-hidden list. It is publishing the structure, dating every record, and showing where each fact came from — so a wrong entry is visible, reportable and fixable rather than quietly costing someone a campaign.
What is public
Who exists in the industry graph, what they cover, the sound and geography they work in, which curated Collections they appear in, and open calls with the deadline and status their organiser published. Each record shows when it was last updated.
Pages without enough substance to be genuinely useful are not indexed. A thin page that exists only to catch a search is a page we would rather not publish.
What is not
Private contact routes, your rankings, your drafts and your relationship history. Those exist inside your workspace and are not part of the public map. Artist profiles appear publicly only when the artist chooses to publish them — published profiles are the artist's own dossier, not something we expose by default.
We also do not publish invented numbers. Where a figure is missing, the page says so instead of estimating.
Corrections
Every profile carries a correction route. If you are listed and something is wrong — a beat you no longer cover, a company you have left, a name spelled incorrectly — tell us and we will fix or remove it.
The short version
- The structure is public so it can be checked.
- Every record is dated and sourced.
- Thin pages stay out of the index.
- Artist profiles are public only when the artist publishes them; matches and messages never are.
- Anyone listed can request a correction or removal.