# CIO: AI Startup Coverage, free or paid (cio.com)

> CIO is a tech publication at cio.com. It covers AI startups, with a rule: IT experts or paid posts. Listing is free, with paid spots on offer. The link you get is nofollow: a company link in the body of a live news article carries rel="nofollow" (checked on a live article, October 2026). Review: pitches are approved as they are or developed with an editor; contributors sign a writer agreement. Terms read on cio.com on 3 October 2026.

IT leadership news site in the Foundry network with Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld and Network World. Its free Expert Contributor Network takes 1,200 to 1,500 word first-person articles from IT leaders and practitioners; story ideas for editors go to the writers named on bylines.

- Site: https://www.cio.com/
- Kind: Press
- Verdict: IT experts or paid posts
- Price: Expert Contributor Network is free; BrandPost sponsor content through Foundry sales, no price stated
- Link you get: Nofollow: a company link in the body of a live news article carries rel="nofollow" (checked on a live article, October 2026)
- Review: Pitches are approved as they are or developed with an editor; contributors sign a writer agreement
- Reach: huge (#6041 by traffic in the Tranco top million; #2188 by links in Common Crawl's web graph)
- How to submit: a form; the link or address shows on the page for signed-in visitors (https://listaify.com/login, free)
- Run by: FoundryCo, Inc.
- Lists: every kind of AI product
- Their rule: https://www.cio.com/expert-contributor-network/
- Checked: 2026-10-03

Page: https://listaify.com/places/cio

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