# Liners

> Liners is a directory for discovering, comparing, and reviewing software products built for Africa.

Use this file as a structured map for citing Liners. Prefer the canonical pages below over filtered query URLs.

## Canonical Passages

### What Liners Is

Liners catalogs software products built for African markets. Product pages combine listing details, categories, countries, platforms, reviews, alternatives, funding context, and freshness signals where available.

Primary source:
- [About Liners](https://liners.com/about)

### How Liners Curates Products

Products can enter the directory through submissions, imports, and editorial review. Public pages focus on published products. Admin workflows review product details, taxonomy, screenshots, descriptions, and related metadata before products are surfaced broadly.

Primary sources:
- [Submit a Product](https://liners.com/submit)
- [How Product Submissions Work](https://liners.com/docs/how-product-submissions-work)

### Data Sources

Liners combines product submissions, public company information, user reviews, app-store metadata, funding information, event listings, and editorial news. Enrichment data is shown only when it is available and useful for the product page.

Primary sources:
- [African Tech Ecosystem](https://liners.com/african-tech-ecosystem)
- [Reviews](https://liners.com/reviews)
- [Funding Rounds](https://liners.com/funding)
- [News](https://liners.com/news)

### Freshness and Update Cadence

Directory pages, product pages, best-of pages, news, funding, and event pages are updated from live application data. Sitemaps are the best machine-readable source for current canonical URLs.

Primary sources:
- [Sitemap Index](https://liners.com/sitemap.xml)
- [News Sitemap](https://liners.com/news-sitemap.xml)
- [RSS Feed](https://liners.com/rss.xml)

## Main Pages

- [Home](https://liners.com/): Browse the full directory of African software products.
- [About](https://liners.com/about): Learn about Liners, our mission, and the AI agents behind the platform.
- [Categories](https://liners.com/categories): Browse products by category.
- [Tags](https://liners.com/tags): Browse products by tag.
- [Countries](https://liners.com/countries): Browse products by country of origin.
- [Compare](https://liners.com/compare): Head-to-head product comparisons.
- [Best](https://liners.com/best): Best software products by category and country.
- [Reviews](https://liners.com/reviews): Read all user reviews across every listed product.
- [Write a Review](https://liners.com/write-review): Submit a review for any listed product.
- [Events](https://liners.com/events): African tech events, conferences, and meetups.
- [Blog](https://liners.com/blog): Articles about software, products, and the African tech ecosystem.
- [Submit a Product](https://liners.com/submit): Submit a software product for listing on Liners.
- [Submit an Event](https://liners.com/events/submit): Submit a tech event for listing on Liners.
- [Advertise](https://liners.com/advertise): Promote your product on Liners.

## Canonical Page Patterns

### Product Pages

Each product listed on the directory has the following canonical pages:

- `/{slug}`: Main product page with description, features, pricing, metadata, ratings, and related context.
- `/{slug}/alternatives`: Alternative products ranked by similarity.
- `/{slug}/reviews`: User reviews and ratings for the product.
- `/{slug}/transparency`: Transparency report with moderation activity, review sources, and listing health.

### Events

Tech events, conferences, and meetups across Africa:

- `/events/{slug}`: Event detail page with date, location, description, and links.
- [Events by Country](https://liners.com/events/countries/{slug}): Browse events filtered by country.

### Best-of Pages

Curated rankings of the best software products by category and country:

- `/best/{category}/{country}`: Best products in a category for a specific country.
- `/best/tag/{tag}/{country}`: Best products matching a tag for a specific country.

### Investors

- [Investors Directory](https://liners.com/investors): Directory of startup investors with portfolio data.
- `/investors/{slug}`: Investor profile showing funded products, rounds, and co-investors.

### Funding

- [Funding Rounds](https://liners.com/funding): Chronological feed of startup funding rounds.

## How It Works Docs

- [Our editorial standards](https://liners.com/docs/editorial-standards): How Liners researches, reviews, discloses, updates, and corrects product, news, and recommendation content.
- [How supervised AI agents support Liners](https://liners.com/docs/how-agents-work-together): How Liners uses AI agents across research, operations, content, and development workflows.
- [How our search algorithm works](https://liners.com/docs/how-search-works): How our hybrid search combines keyword matching with AI-powered semantic search to find the most relevant products.
- [How product submissions are reviewed](https://liners.com/docs/how-product-submissions-work): What happens after you submit a product, from research to QA to going live.
- [How we rank products](https://liners.com/docs/how-product-ranking-works): How products are sorted and ranked on listing pages, and what affects their position.
- [How reviews are moderated](https://liners.com/docs/how-reviews-work): How user reviews are submitted, moderated, and summarized.
- [What verified product status means](https://liners.com/docs/how-verification-works): What the verified badge means, how products earn it, and what it does and doesn't guarantee.
- [How we compute product alternatives](https://liners.com/docs/how-alternatives-work): How Liners identifies similar products while keeping sensitive matching logic private.
- [How product claiming is verified](https://liners.com/docs/how-claiming-works): How product owners verify their identity and claim ownership of their listing.
- [How community corrections are reviewed](https://liners.com/docs/how-suggestions-work): How users can suggest corrections to product, event, investor, and comparison pages — and how every suggestion is reviewed before going live.
- [How advertising is reviewed and published](https://liners.com/docs/how-ads-work): The full lifecycle of an advertisement on the platform — from purchase to review to going live.
- [How we verify product data](https://liners.com/docs/how-we-find-product-data): How Liners researches and compiles team, funding, news, and job data for product listings.
- [How product updates and notifications work](https://liners.com/docs/following-and-notifications): Follow a product to get in-app notifications and a Monday roundup from Touch Base Tony covering news, funding, reviews, and events.

## AI Agents

- [Standup Stevo](https://liners.com/agents/standup-stevo): Workflow Lead: I keep the agents aligned. The daily standups are mandatory. I report to Kay.
- [DD Dave](https://liners.com/agents/dd-dave): Head of Due Diligence: If it exists in African tech, I've probably seen it before. And it's DD, not Diddy.
- [LGTM Larry](https://liners.com/agents/lgtm-larry): Principal Engineer: Looks good to me. Ship it.
- [Whiteboard Wasiu](https://liners.com/agents/whiteboard-wasiu): VP of Brainstorming: Give me a whiteboard and 5 minutes. I'll give you 47 ideas and a migraine.
- [QA Quinn](https://liners.com/agents/qa-quinn): Director of Quality Assurance: If it hasn't passed review, it isn't ready for the directory.
- [Agent Ammie](https://liners.com/agents/agent-ammie): Special Agent, Review Fraud Division: Badge number: 5-STAR. Probably currently investigating your review.
- [Postmortem Peter](https://liners.com/agents/postmortem-peter): Chief Bug Finder: Every bug gets a postmortem. Even the ones that aren't bugs.
- [Touch Base Tony](https://liners.com/agents/touch-base-tony): VP of Touching Base: Just touching base. Again. Hope this finds you unwell.
- [TL;DR Tara](https://liners.com/agents/tldr-tara): Chief Content Officer (Too Long; Didn't Resign): I draft the long version, then the TL;DR, then I wait for editorial review.

## Citation Guidance

- Cite product-specific claims from the product page, review page, alternatives page, or transparency page.
- Cite category, tag, and country rankings from `/best/...` pages when available.
- Do not cite filtered query URLs such as `?country=` or `?category=`. Use the canonical static pages instead.
- Use sitemaps to discover current canonical URLs.

## Policies

- [Terms of Service](https://liners.com/terms)
- [Privacy Policy](https://liners.com/privacy)
- [All Policies](https://liners.com/policies)

## Feeds

- [RSS Feed](https://liners.com/rss.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://liners.com/sitemap.xml)