ICHNOS
What it costs
250 industries surveyed, 5,597 destinations confirmed to publish a way in. The half that costs nothing to pursue is free and needs no account.
The earn list
Free
Anyone shut out — by category, by budget, or by a ban they cannot appeal.
- Every route in every industry that accepts outside participation WITHOUT selling it — membership, contributed articles, directory listings, news desks.
- Named on the industry page itself, with the door each one publishes. No account, no card, no email.
- Routes that sell access — advertising, sponsored placement, event presence.
- The quoted policy sentence for each route, the PDF, and the change log.
The map
$497 once
One business that needs every way into its own category, once.
- Every confirmed-open destination for one industry — the buy list as well as the earn list.
- The sentence from each destination's own page saying an outsider may take part, so every entry can be checked rather than trusted.
- The branded PDF, produced through three quality gates or not produced at all.
- A corrected edition, free, whenever you find a quote that is wrong.
- Updates. A map is a dated reading; policies move and this one does not follow them.
Kept current
$997/year
A business that intends to still be using this next year.
- The map, plus quarterly re-verification of every route in it.
- The change log: what opened, what closed, and what changed its terms in your category each quarter.
- A re-issued edition each quarter, dated, so what you hand a client is never stale.
- New destinations added to your industry as the survey finds them.
- Other industries — the Agency tier covers all of them.
Agency
$2,997/year
An agency that takes on the categories other agencies decline.
- Every industry, including those added after you subscribe.
- Every change log, and the full history from the day the survey started.
- Maps you may put in front of clients, with our name retained on the page.
- Corrections and new-industry requests answered first.
- A contact database. There is not one, there never will be, and no tier unlocks one.
- Anything that sends on your behalf. A human decides every send, every time.
Why the subscription is the reading, not the document
A map is a dated survey of published policy, and policy moves. Charging every year for a file you already have would be rent. What recurs is the work: re-reading every destination in your industry each quarter and telling you what changed — what opened, what closed, and what altered its terms.
That record is also the one thing a competitor cannot copy. The destinations are public and could be re-listed by anyone in a fortnight. A history of what changed cannot be started earlier than today.
What no tier includes
There is no contact database, no mailing list and no personal data, at any price. The survey records places, not people, and nothing is ever sent on your behalf — every approach is a decision you make.