---
title: "Stage"
description: "one of the fixed stages every rung maps to, in a set, the seven buying stages or the router's seven, so ladders join across verticals within a set"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/stage
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Stage

one of the fixed stages every rung maps to, in a set, the seven buying stages or the router's seven, so ladders join across verticals within a set

[figure: Stage is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | rules_engine |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes | fixed rows per set: the seven buying stages from unaware to advocate; the router's seven from unheard to recommends to peers; the maturity stages of how far a company buys reach |
| `order` | `count` | yes |  |
| `set` | `one of buying \| routing \| maturity` | yes | a stage belongs to one set, and a rung maps to a stage of its ladder's set |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Stage directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.