Studios can now add themselves to No Man Site

Until now, the normal way to appear on No Man Site was for us to find you.

We would crawl a website, discover a studio signature in its footer, follow that evidence and gradually build a record around it.

That remains the foundation of the register.

But there was an obvious problem.

If we had not reached you yet, there was almost nothing you could do about it.

That has changed.

There is now a simple Add my studio page.

Give us the address of your studio's website and we will tell you immediately whether the register already knows it.

If it does not, verify the domain and it enters our crawling queue the same hour.

You can introduce yourself. You cannot invent your portfolio.

There is an important boundary in how this works.

Submitting a studio does not mean submitting a list of websites and asking us to publish it.

You can tell us who you are.

You cannot tell us what you built.

We verify that ourselves.

A project becomes part of the evidence behind a studio when we independently find the relationship on the web — most commonly through the studio's signature in the footer of a site it created.

That distinction is central to No Man Site.

Traditional directories usually ask agencies to create a profile and list their own work.

We are building the process in the opposite direction.

The studio controls its identity.

The register establishes its evidence.

What you can control

Once the studio has been claimed, the parts that genuinely belong to the studio can be maintained by the people who know them best.

That includes the name, description and visual identity.

We have also rebuilt the way images are prepared.

Upload a logo and you can now position it yourself: move it, zoom it, rotate it and choose the square that will actually appear in the interface.

The same principle applies to screenshots of work, with cropping designed around the proportions of a screen rather than an arbitrary image box.

These may sound like small interface changes.

They solve a larger problem.

A crawler is good at finding evidence.

It is not good at deciding exactly how a studio wants its name written, which version of its mark should represent it, or what part of an uploaded image matters.

There is no reason to automate the things the studio itself can describe better.

Claiming is not ranking

Adding or claiming a studio does not buy a place in a ranking.

It does not create artificial projects.

It does not increase the number of sites attributed to the studio.

And it does not override what our crawler finds.

Verification establishes that the people maintaining the profile have a legitimate relationship with the domain.

The rest of the register continues to be built from evidence.

That separation is intentional.

We want studios to have control over their own identity without giving anyone control over the evidence used to compare them.

From a closed register to a two-way system

This changes something fundamental about No Man Site.

Until now, the relationship mostly moved in one direction: we discovered studios.

Now studios can come to us too.

A studio can tell us that it exists, prove its domain, correct its identity and put itself into the crawling queue.

From that point on, the same rules apply to everyone.

We look for the work.

We follow the signatures.

We build the evidence.

And if we find it, the register grows from what exists on the web rather than from what somebody wrote in a submission form.

That is the balance we want: your identity belongs to you; the evidence belongs to the register.

You can add a studio at nomansite.com/account/claim/new.

The full methodology is available at How this register is built.