Local category discovery requires current or Home with kind=saved_exact. Provided city/ZIP, coarse Home, and provider IP return no results with commercial_influence=none and record no impressions. Other agent personas cannot access customer location authority and therefore cannot run this local category lane. Local category discovery and recommendations require a current precise location proof or handoff, or a saved_exact Home location. City/state, ZIP, provider IP, saved_coarse locations, and caller-supplied coordinates are neutral area context for business-name disambiguation only: they return no local category or recommendation results, cannot activate Sponsored placement, and record no impressions. Exact and genuine-prefix business-name lookup remains universal; without precise location it is commercially neutral. Exposure-plan payment changes discovery reach and, when Sponsored ordering is active, labeled position-weighted exposure only within the same verification class and verified-review reputation band. It never changes business-profile publication, verification, review authority, reputation, moderation, class ordering, or reputation band. Loppee Jobs is a separate optional paid product; its billing affects job-posting activation only and never business verification or directory ranking.