Provider pathVerified path
Permit support path from a deadline task
Use when a permit or compliance deadline creates a need for professional help.
Current Paths
Provider paths grouped by confidence and next step
Provider leads should not behave like generic ads or directory listings. Keep verified paths, task needs, directory discovery, and submitted sources clearly separated.
Verified path
Verified provider paths
Use when the source and business task are clear enough to send the reader toward a provider path.
Task need
Task-created provider needs
Use when the opportunity creates an accounting, insurance, permitting, lease, marketing, or technical-support task.
Provider needTask need
Funding records and bookkeeping support need
Use when a funding or contract window creates records, bookkeeping, insurance, or documentation work.
Directory
Directory follow-up
Use Directory after the task is clear and the reader needs provider discovery or comparison context.
DirectoryFollow-up
Provider comparison after the task is clear
Use Directory only after the business task and provider category are clear enough to compare options.
Review first
Submitted sources needing review
Reader-submitted or candidate sources should not be counted as verified provider paths until the source and fit are clear.
SubmittedCandidate
Reader-submitted provider source awaiting review
Keep reader-submitted sources separate until the source, relationship, and business task are checked.
Lane Fit
What belongs in Service Provider Leads
Use this lane only when the source, timing, reader task, and next path match the page purpose.
Task-created need
Provider paths created by a grant, bid, permit, lease, opening, or operations task.
Separation
Verified paths, directory discovery, ads, and submitted sources must not be mixed.
Reader safety
The page should help readers know when a source is verified, candidate, submitted, or only a directory follow-up.
Before You Act
Review before you contact a provider
Use these checks before spending time, registering, preparing documents, contacting a source, or following up.
- Step 1Open the original source.
Confirm the item from the agency, organizer, business, property, or source owner.
- Step 2Check timing.
Look for a deadline, event date, opening date, review date, or last-checked date.
- Step 3Read the status.
Know whether the item is open, closing soon, upcoming, a signal, or still a candidate.
- Step 4Choose your next move.
Decide whether to act now, prepare, monitor, use a guide, or move to another lane.
Source Checks
Check the source before trusting a provider path
A useful opportunity update should make the action and uncertainty clear enough for an Austin operator to decide what to do next.
Clear source
The item should point back to an official, local, organizer, property, business, or close-to-source page.
Clear timing
The page should make the relevant date easy to find before the reader commits time.
Clear next step
The item should tell the reader whether to act, prepare, monitor, use a guide, or choose a different lane.