---
title: "Vertical"
description: "one market worked as a whole: its chain, its roles, its segments, its words and rules; ready or visibly not ready"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/vertical
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Vertical

one market worked as a whole: its chain, its roles, its segments, its words and rules; ready or visibly not ready

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

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | definition |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | market |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `industries` | `[text]` | yes |  |
| `chain` | `id` | yes |  |
| `roles` | [RoleAroundADecision](/concepts/rolearoundadecision) | yes |  |
| `segments` | `[id]` | yes |  |
| `words` | [Word](/concepts/word) | yes |  |
| `regulations` | [Regulation](/concepts/regulation) | yes |  |
| `sources` | [Source](/concepts/source) | yes |  |
| `kinds_of_signal` | [KindOfSignal](/concepts/kindofsignal) | yes |  |
| `state` | [Readiness](/concepts/readiness) | yes |  |
| `industry_group` | `text` | no | the industry family it sits in, from the seed catalogue |
| `applications` | [Application](/concepts/application) | no | the customer questions it is worked for |
| `systems_models` | [SystemsModelTemplate](/concepts/systemsmodeltemplate) | no | the systems model templates that model its chain; a game of roles, where one is laid, is the template's own; every role that a template's flows or game name is one of the vertical's roles |



## Routes that use it
- [`/v1/read/vertical`](/reference/read/vertical) returns it