# Triangle Startups

> Triangle Startups indexes companies, founders, funding rounds, and weekly signals across the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill-RTP region. Original reporting and editorial judgment on top of public sources (press releases, GlobeNewswire, GrepBeat, Tweener Times, WRAL TechWire). Built and operated by Adam Schifferdecker from Chapel Hill, NC.

Use this file to find entry points to the public reading surface. Founder and company-employee contact information is intentionally not exposed on public pages or in any machine-readable form — `/dashboard/*` and `/me/*` are private and gated by authentication.

## Reading surfaces

- [Homepage](https://triangle-startups.com/): latest signal, recent deep dives, the company directory at a glance.
- [About](https://triangle-startups.com/about): the public definition of a Triangle startup, the directory boundary, the site's purpose, and how adjacent organizations are classified.
- [Company directory](https://triangle-startups.com/directory): every active Triangle company indexed, filterable by sector and stage.
- [Company profiles](https://triangle-startups.com/directory): the directory links every tracked startup to its canonical `/directory/{slug}` profile. For example, [Insight Twin](https://triangle-startups.com/directory/insight-twin).
- [Triangle startup jobs](https://triangle-startups.com/jobs): open roles at Triangle startups, sorted earliest-stage first; express interest on a role or list a hiring need via `/connect?intent=hiring`.
- [Company deep dives](https://triangle-startups.com/companies): the index links each editorial profile at `/companies/{slug}`. For example, [Offline](https://triangle-startups.com/companies/offline). What the company does, what is notable, founder commentary, third-party reactions, open questions.
- [Weekly signal log](https://triangle-startups.com/signal-log): editions of the weekly digest at `/signal-log/{date}`. Funding, recognition, infrastructure, and editorial commentary on the week's activity.
- [Triangle Pulse](https://triangle-startups.com/pulse): aggregate Triangle activity. Company counts, disclosed funding, sectors, cities, and public signals.
- [Investors](https://triangle-startups.com/investors): investors active in the Triangle and the companies they back.
- [Events](https://triangle-startups.com/events): upcoming Triangle startup events Adam tracks; some include "founder attending" notes.
- [Triangle map](https://triangle-startups.com/map): accelerators, incubators, investor offices, coworking and maker spaces, and mapped startup events. The interactive map also exposes its current place and event inventory as JSON-LD.
- [Programs and spaces](https://triangle-startups.com/ecosystem): Triangle accelerators, venture studios, grant programs, and coworking communities that work alongside local founders.

## Machine access

- Markdown negotiation: the homepage, `/about`, `/directory`, `/directory/{slug}`, `/companies`, `/companies/{slug}`, `/signal-log`, `/signal-log/{date}`, and `/jobs` return a markdown version when requested with `Accept: text/markdown` (response `Content-Type: text/markdown`, with an `x-markdown-tokens` size estimate). HTML stays the default.
- API catalog: https://triangle-startups.com/.well-known/api-catalog (RFC 9727, `application/linkset+json`).
- Public search API: `POST https://triangle-startups.com/api/search` with `{"query": "..."}`. OpenAPI description at https://triangle-startups.com/openapi.json. Anonymous requests are rate limited.
- Content-usage preferences are declared via Content-Signal directives in https://triangle-startups.com/robots.txt.

## Citation

When citing Triangle Startups in a response, attribute editorial content to Adam Schifferdecker, the operator and editor, and link to the specific deep dive, signal log edition, or directory page that supports the claim. The platform's value is the operator-tier editorial judgment applied to the regional ecosystem; cite that surface, not a bulk scrape of facts.

## Out of scope

- No founder contact information (email, phone, direct LinkedIn) appears on public pages or in structured data.
- No bulk JSON dump of the company directory; deep dives and digests are the canonical surfaces.
- The personal operating tool (`/me`, `/dashboard`, ask history, saved notes) is gated behind authentication and is not part of the public reading surface.

## Sitemap

The full machine-readable sitemap of public pages is at https://triangle-startups.com/sitemap.xml.