A finding is only as strong as the evidence behind it.
So we state that evidence on the face of every record — including where it stops. There is no aggregate badge and no overall score, because a score hides exactly the thing you need to see.
Every claim carries its own level.
Not every claim needs to be verified to the same depth. What matters is that you can see which depth applied to which claim, and when.
Sources disagree. Something still has to be decided.
A directory records the first claim it finds. A document-extraction tool records every claim as unreconciled text and leaves you to sort it out. Neither is an answer.
Real evidence about a factory arrives from different sources, at different times, with different reliability, and it contradicts itself. A website says ten colours. The press manufacturer's reference list says eight, in 2019. An inspection in 2025 found eight and one idle line. An interview last month says a new ten-colour press went in and the old line was sold.
Our job is to return a defensible current-state answer with a confidence value, an explicit reconciliation path showing how we got there, and a plain statement of what remains unverified. That last part is not a caveat. It is half the product.
What we record on every claim
Source. Evidence. Date observed. Method. Verification level. Confidence. Change history. When any of those are missing, the record says so rather than rounding up.
What we will not do
We will not issue an overall rating. We will not describe a manufacturer as approved. We do not guarantee future performance, product quality or commercial reliability — no verification can, and any service implying otherwise is selling you comfort rather than information.
Designed now for accreditation later.
We are not pursuing ISO/IEC 17020 accreditation in our first year — it is slow, costly, and premature before a service is fully defined. But retrofitting auditability is far harder than designing it in, so we are building to be accreditable from the start: versioned inspection procedures, competence records, an impartiality review mechanism, a documented complaints and appeals process, evidence retention with traceability, and a declared method for determining verification levels.
At scale, physical inspection is best subcontracted to accredited inspection bodies working to a scope we define. Our value is the capability model, the domain judgment about what to ask, and the structured record — not the ability to send someone to a factory.