How ReachMap builds your channel shortlist

A practical workflow for researching where to promote a software product, checking what is still unknown, and keeping your submission plan together.

1. Describe the product and its constraints

Open the workspace overview, sign in and enter a public website URL to extract a basic draft from the page title and description without an AI key. Review the draft and complete the product profile. If the page blocks automated access or needs JavaScript, fill in the profile manually. Record the product type, tags, audience, market, stage and goals. Add your relationship to the product, launch purpose, submission account type and existing listings where known.

The budget is a maximum per channel in USD. It is a planning constraint, not a quote or a payment. Record whether you can add a reciprocal link and whether you have a particular app, extension or other distribution asset.

2. Apply known exclusions before ranking

The shortlist excludes candidate, suspended and inactive records. Manually verified records whose verification is older than 60 days are also excluded by the current rules. Recorded restrictions can exclude a product because of its type, stage, market, required asset, ownership, account type or hosting address.

Known paid-only channels are excluded for a zero budget. Recorded price options and reciprocal-link preferences can also exclude a channel. An unknown fee is not converted to a free offer: it remains something to confirm.

3. Compare fit, then inspect the evidence

Remaining records are ordered by product or tag fit, overlap with your selected goals, the number of recorded evidence items, pricing category and recorded effort. Ties use the channel ID. Duplicate submission groups are collapsed and the workspace shows up to ten records.

This ordering is a rule-based research aid. It is not a prediction of acceptance, conversion, backlink value or traffic. More evidence items do not automatically mean better evidence. Read the linked source notes and dates before deciding.

What the labels mean

Pending manual verification

A research record is available for review, but it has not completed manual verification. Confirm its entry route, requirements and fees.

Manually verified

The record has a manual verification date under the catalog rules. This is a record-level research label, not an endorsement by the platform or a promise that the channel will accept your product.

Needs confirmation

The profile or channel has unresolved conditions. Unknown ownership, assets, fees or previous listings may leave a record visible with explicit questions.

Research match

The implemented checks found no outstanding confirmation message. You must still check the current channel rules; the catalog cannot cover every editorial decision.

4. Prepare materials and submit directly

Use the dashboard for descriptions, logo and screenshot URLs, notes and progress. Follow a channel’s own submission route and confirm its current eligibility, fee and editorial policy. If you already have an entry, check whether it should be updated instead of duplicated.

Your status choices are a personal tracking record. Marking a channel Listed does not independently verify the listing. ReachMap does not submit forms on your behalf.

5. Save deliberately and keep a backup

Save each edited section in the workspace. Guest drafts are stored in this browser. Unsaved section edits remain only in the current tab and can be lost on refresh. Export a JSON backup after saving your edits.

For account storage, sign in, explicitly import a guest draft if needed, and choose Save to account. Browser edits do not automatically synchronize. Account access is scoped to the signed-in account; review privacy and data handling before adding information.

Try an illustrative example

Open the workspace overview and choose “Explore a sample project”. It creates a labeled demo profile you can edit, then use Channels and Dashboard to inspect the workflow. If you already have a project, export it first; the workspace asks before replacing it with the sample.

Where this workflow stops

• The research catalog is limited and can be incomplete or outdated. Check source dates and the channel’s own current pages.
• A matching channel is not a qualified lead, guaranteed listing, guaranteed backlink or measured growth result.
• AI website analysis and live GEO monitoring are currently disabled. Optional preview screens are not evidence of an active monitoring service.
• Search indexing and AI citations depend on external systems. ReachMap cannot guarantee either.

Method reviewed on November 7, 2026.