Commercial policy.
No commercial relationship can change rank, eligibility, evidence quality, or publication timing.
The rule
Scores and current evidence stay public. Money may buy workflow, history, and convenience — never a better hidden truth. This rule is enforced by automated tests on every build.
- Rank
- Eligibility
- Evidence quality
- Publication timing
- Review speed
- Workflow and history
- Change monitoring and exports
- Bulk data and API rate limits
- Team workspaces
- Scores and current evidence
- Listing submissions and claims
Rank-relevant edition code cannot mention paid placement or similar commercial levers. Merged catalogue outputs contain no commercial keys. There is currently no commercial link on the site; disclosure would precede the first one.
How it is enforced
- 01
Rank-relevant code
The edition code allowlist is scanned on every build. A match fails the gate. Rank logic cannot see commercial inventory.
- 02
Commercial inventory
Stays empty until a verified program exists, added only with a program URL, verification date, and disclosure label — never as a ranking input.
- 03
Merged outputs
Entities, boards, records, and the summary do not carry commercial keys. Provenance in raw source bytes is not a ranking input.
What money may buy
Decision research, change monitoring, exports, team workspaces, bulk data, and API access. Convenience and scale — never eligibility or timing. Paid alerts and paid API keys do not buy rank.
Listing submissions are free
Submit a new listing or claim an existing one without payment. There is no paid priority queue, boost, or skip-the-line. Money never buys rank, and never buys review speed. Submissions wait as submitted until editors mark them under review, needs evidence, declined, or published. This form does not write commercial inventory and does not change Method AIS-V2 scores.
Paid delivery limits only
Paid alerts unlock higher webhook volume and email digest cadence only. Paid API keys raise GET rate limits and allow commercial ToS only. The catalogue stays GET-only. Paid never changes scores, eligibility, evidence, review speed, featured placement, or publication timing.
Stripe Checkout goes live when STRIPE_SECRET_KEY and a product price env are set in Cloudflare. Secrets never land in this repo. Price ids are not ranks. Alerts · Catalogue API · This policy.
Last reviewed 17 September 2026. Method AIS-V2