Methodology

We publish organisations that fit a technology or innovation role in Lucknow: startups, product companies, software & IT firms, incubators, campus innovation cells, and selected ecosystem orgs.

• Clear Lucknow relevance (office, team, or remote-with-roots)
• A public existence signal (website, LinkedIn, incubator, or press)
• Human curation — no blind bulk import
• Honest location labels if mapped

We generally exclude ordinary local businesses unrelated to tech or startups, dormant shells, and register rows with no public signal.

Every listing carries a confidence label. It describes how reliable the listing is — not how “good” the company is.

Confirmed

Strong public evidence for identity (and location, if mapped). Human-reviewed.

Listed

Real enough to publish; some details may still be partial or less corroborated.

Needs update

Stale, incomplete, or flagged for a refresh. Still listed for discovery.

Confidence and pin precision are separate. A Confirmed organisation may still have an approximate pin; an exact pin does not make a listing Confirmed by itself.

Approximate pins are not fake street pins. When several organisations share a locality (for example Vibhuti Khand), the map shows a density label — tap it to filter and expand the list. Stacked corridor placeholders spider apart on click for exploration only; stored coordinates stay honest.

• Exact pin (Exact office / Exact street) — solid, high-contrast marker; office or street level from public evidence.
• Approximate pin (Approximate area) — softer marker with a faint halo; right neighbourhood, not the door. Useful for exploring the corridor, not for navigation.
• List only — Lucknow-relevant but not shown as a fake city-centre pin (e.g. remote-first).

Markers and clusters are visual shorthand for location honesty — not company rank. On the map, tap the small ? next to Fit for a quick key. The same legend is below.

Editors maintain organisations in an internal admin tool. Changes go through validation, then a publish step that regenerates the public map data file. Only published organisations appear on the website.

Confirmed listings require a stored public evidence URL. Failed validation blocks a site export so broken data does not silently ship.

Public correction and submission forms are planned, but not live yet. Until then, treat listings as curated and imperfect: useful for discovery, always check the organisation’s own website for the latest facts.

• Not a complete census of every Lucknow company
• Not investment advice or a ranking
• Not a jobs board or funding database (yet)
• Confidence is never sold