A compact index and a complete landing page serve different reading modes. The useful question is not whether the idea sounds persuasive. It is whether it helps someone understand the work, make a decision, or complete a task with less friction.
What is happening
Trying to place the whole story inside a grid makes the grid impossible to scan. Sending every item to a generic contact page breaks the promise of selection.
This tends to become visible at the boundary between the organization and the person encountering it for the first time. Internal familiarity hides effort that remains obvious to a customer, reader, applicant, or collaborator.
A practical response
Keep the index concise, then give each item a stable route with enough context to reward the click.
The aim is a smaller, clearer system: one source for the record, one visible hierarchy, and one next action that behaves as expected. That approach improves the immediate page and makes later application or database work easier to add without rebuilding the public surface.