Can an agency pay for a better editorial assessment?

No. The score is built only from evidence any agency can publish: your work, your site, public records. What you say in an interview for a paid article never feeds it. The article describes how you work; the ranking judges it, and the two are kept apart on purpose.

Is a long-form paid article an advertorial?

No. Every article answers the same fixed set of questions, in the same order, including what you turn down. You supply material and check facts; you don't write, edit or approve the article, and it is labeled as paid at the top.

What does a long-form paid article involve?

A written intake, one recorded interview of about 60 minutes, a review of the artifacts you show, and an article of about 1,500 to 2,000 words. Four are written a month, so expect about one to two months from payment to publication.

Can I get a refund on a long-form paid article?

Yes, in full, if you cancel before the interview or if the curator declines to write it. After you have seen the draft you can still stop publication and half the fee is returned: the work is done by then. You get five business days to correct facts and quote wording either way, never conclusions.

Get in front of buyers without buying rank

Two paid options for agencies already in the directory. You pay for our time or a marked spot, never for a result.

Markets

New

For listed agencies

€290 per city, per year

Billed yearly. Cancel renewal any time.

City page

Any city where you want work and have no office.

Your agency's website

We check your listing first. Full refund if we don't publish your card.

Each city page only ranks agencies with an office in that city. Markets lists your agency in a separate section below that ranking, clearly marked as paid, in the cities you want to win work in.

Your agency in an “Also serving” section on that city page, below the ranking, sorted alphabetically
Labels showing buyers where you are based and how your rates compare with local agencies
An extra “verified client work” label if you send proof, which buyers look for
One of at most eight cards on that page, however many agencies want one
Live within five business days, or your money back

Proof is optional: send a case study on your own website for a client based in that city, or a client there who confirms the work by email, and your card carries the label. Without proof your card still appears, without that label.

You lose it if

you open an office in that city, because then you join its ranking instead. A client-work label also comes off once that work is too old to stand up.

Pro includes one market. See Pro

Long-form paid article

For listed agencies

€890 once

One-time payment. Written by the curator.

Your agency's website

We check your listing first. Full refund until interviews start.

A description of how your agency works, not a verdict on it. Every article answers the same questions in the same order, so buyers can read two of them side by side.

How it works

1.You send the intake in writing: entity, headcount and seniority mix, rates, engagement sizes, clients, case studies.
2.The curator verifies each claim against your work and public records.
3.One recorded interview, about 60 minutes, against the same question set every agency gets. Bring artifacts.
4.You get five business days to correct facts and quote wording. Not structure, not sections, not our conclusions.

The same sections, every agency

Who does the work, and how senior they really are
How you run discovery
What it costs
One project you chose, walked through with the artifacts
One project that went sideways, and what it changed
What you turn down
Working with you: cadence, contract, IP, what happens after delivery

You get

A 1,500 to 2,000 word article on UX Agencies, labeled as paid
A facts box: offices, headcount, seniority, rate band, engagement range, what you turn down
A permanent link to it from your profile

Not for sale

Your score. The interview never feeds the ranking, which is built only from evidence any agency can publish. Stop publication after the draft and half the fee is returned.

Five rules

Applied to every product on this page and any that comes later.

Mark as paid: Every paid spot says it is paid, and says what we checked.
Sort by name or score, never by who pays more: There is no position anyone can outbid you for.
Below the ranking, never inside it: Paid placements sit in their own section, in alphabetical order, under the ranked agencies.
Refund if we don't publish it: You don't pay for a placement that never goes live.
Visibility first: You pay to be seen by buyers, not for a backlink.

Questions agencies ask

Yes. Checkout checks your website against the directory before any payment. If your agency isn't listed yet, submit it for a free editorial review first.

What you can buy