If the party being verified pays, why would anyone believe the result?
It is the right question, and contract language alone does not answer it. Tampering — the payer changing a finding — is solved by contract. Selection — the payer quietly burying an unfavourable finding by never publishing it — is not. That is the failure mode that destroyed issuer-paid credit ratings, and most verification businesses never address it.
All four have to hold, or none of them matter.
Publication is committed before work begins
The manufacturer signs a publication undertaking at engagement. The record publishes on a fixed date after completion, regardless of outcome. A manufacturer may decline to be verified. They may not commission verification and then bury the result.
Findings are itemised, never aggregated
There is no “Realynx Verified” stamp, because a stamp hides which claim was actually checked and how deeply. Every claim carries its own finding, its own evidence level and its own date.
The denominator is public
We publish cumulative outcome statistics — how many claims verified, partially verified, and not verified, across how many engagements. Without a base rate you cannot assess selection bias, and a population that passes 100% of the time should be treated as meaningless.
Correction rights, not editorial control
A manufacturer may challenge a factual error with evidence, and the corrected record republishes with its change history visible. They may not require removal of a substantiated finding because it is commercially inconvenient. This distinction is written into our terms and is non-negotiable.
We take no success fee, commission or introduction fee on any transaction arising from a qualification engagement. Introductions are included in the fee you already paid. Commissions are the easiest money in this industry, and taking them would reintroduce the exact conflict this business exists to remove.
Our independence policy, in full.
- Payment does not determine outcome.
- Scope is agreed in writing before work begins, and reproduced on the record.
- All material findings are recorded and published, favourable or not.
- Evidence is retained with provenance and is auditable.
- Every finding is time-stamped and expressly point-in-time.
- Commercial relationships are disclosed wherever material.
- Buyer qualification outcomes are not influenced by any manufacturer payment.
- We do not guarantee future performance, product quality or commercial reliability.
- Limitations and unresolved claims are stated on the face of every record.
- Clients may correct factual errors with evidence. Clients may not edit findings.
Where conflicts are possible, we name them.
Any manufacturer appearing in your qualification report who is also a commercial client of ours is flagged on the face of that report. Not in a footnote, and not on request.
A manufacturer's fee for any service is never contingent on appearing in, or being selected from, any buyer engagement.
Where a conflict cannot be reasonably managed, we decline the engagement and record the declination.
Verification personnel and commercial personnel are separated as soon as headcount permits. Until then, the founder's dual role is disclosed in writing to every buyer client — because the honest disclosure of a structural limitation is worth more than a claim of independence we cannot yet fully staff.