What lives here
- Weekly recap — every changelog entry and research article ProFix published in the last 7 days, with editorial context when there's a coherent theme.
- Monthly permit recap — the top contractors in Ohio by verified building permits pulled in the last 30 days, with by-trade and by-county breakdowns.
- Honest about empty windows — quiet weeks get reported as quiet weeks. No padding, no manufactured news.
This week
Last 7 days at ProFix Directory — every changelog entry grouped by type, every research article published, and a short editorial paragraph when the week has a coherent theme. Refreshes daily at build time.
/reports/this-week →
Permits this month
Last 30 days of Ohio contractor permit activity — top 25 by permit count, top 3 per trade, top 3 per county (Lucas, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton). Synthetic + live pools combined with an honest methodology note.
/reports/permits-this-month →
How often the recaps refresh
Each recap is a static page that rebuilds at most once per day — fast for AI crawlers, RSS readers, and homeowners alike. The window is rolling, not calendar-aligned: the weekly recap on any given day covers the prior 7 days, and the monthly permit report on any given day covers the prior 30 days. The benefit of rolling windows is that an empty Monday is just as honest as a packed Friday — there is no marketing pressure to invent a "week of" narrative when nothing actually shipped. The cost is that the weekly recap is not bookmarkable as a long-term archive page; for that, every changelog entry has a permanent home at /newsroom and every research article has a permanent home at /research/<slug>. The reports lane exists to make the directory legible — to surface what's happening on a human-readable timescale so journalists, partners, and homeowners can pattern-match without wading through the full changelog archive.
Planned recap reports
The reports lane will grow with more cadences and angles. Slots already reserved for build:
/reports/quarterly-research-recap— a rolling 90-day digest of original ProFix research with sourcing and citation lines./reports/year-end— annual review covering every published research article, top permit-pull contractors of the year, coverage growth by county, and what shipped quarter-by-quarter.- Per-metro monthly recaps for Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, and Findlay as the live permit pools fill in.
Three ways to follow recaps
Reports are powered by the same public feeds the newsroom uses. Pick the format that fits your stack — JSON for agents and scripts, RSS for readers, iCal for calendar apps.
- /api/changelog.json — every milestone the weekly recap draws from.
- /api/newsroom.rss — combined RSS feed of changelog entries and research publications.
- /api/changelog.ics — iCal subscription for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook.
- /api/reports/this-week.json and /api/reports/permits-this-month.json — machine-readable mirrors of the two live reports.
CC-BY-4.0
Every recap report and its JSON mirror is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Quote freely, embed in newsletters, paste into AI prompts — attribute to ProFix Directory and link back to the source URL. The underlying source feeds and methodology pages live at /newsroom, /permits-leaderboard, and /methodology. Editorial attribution: ProFix Editorial Team / ProFix Directory.