Methodology
This page exists so that anyone deciding whether to cite us can see exactly how far our claims go. It is deliberately more detailed about our limits than about our capabilities.
What we publish
We publish an assessment of the public records available in a jurisdiction: which authority publishes what, in what form, what it can establish about a supplier, and what it cannot. Of the 3 jurisdictions listed, 1 has been assessed.
We do not publish company records on this site. Where a jurisdiction has a dedicated service, that service holds its records and is the single canonical home for them. This site describes what those records mean.
What we will not publish
- Any characterisation of a company. We restate what an authority recorded. We never add an adjective about the party.
- Any score, grade, rating, or composite index. A computed judgement about a named company is an assertion we would own, and it is not the product.
- Pages about natural persons. Public records frequently name individuals. We do not build pages about them, and we screen rendered output for personal identifiers rather than trusting that a database column is the only place one can appear.
- “Nothing found” pages. Absence is not a fact we hold, and publishing it would read as a clearance we cannot stand behind.
What our statuses mean
The most important one: “not assessed” means we have not looked. It is not a finding, it is not a risk signal, and it must never be read as either. A jurisdiction we have not assessed may have excellent public records; we simply have not examined them.
Equally: a record we could not find is not the same as a record that does not exist, and no check on this site establishes that a supplier has done nothing wrong.
How we handle being wrong
We expect to be wrong sometimes. When we are, the correction route is open to anyone — including the subject of a record — and it is reachable from every page rather than buried in a footer.
Corrections create a new version of a page. We do not silently rewrite history, because the ability to show what we published and when is part of how anyone can hold us to account.
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No automated interpretation
No language model writes, summarises, translates, classifies, or scores anything published here. Every assessment is written and reviewed by a person, and every factual claim carries a link to the primary source so you can check it yourself rather than take our word for it.