The Receipts Index · The Receipts API

How We Verify, and How We Make Money

Why this page exists

The Receipts Index asks you to trust our work. Trust should not be requested. It should be earned, in writing, in public. This page explains how we check claims, what our verdicts mean, and exactly where our money comes from. If we ever fall short of what is written here, hold us to it.

The standard

Every claim we review is checked against a primary source, and every check is dated. We publish our rules before we publish results, so you can judge our method before you judge our findings. And we show our misses. When we get something wrong, the record of that error stays public.

What a verdict is (and is not)

A verdict is a disclosed-fact-based opinion about whether a claim matches its source on the date we checked. We use four labels: MATCH, NO-MATCH, MATCH-WITH-CAVEAT, and UNVERIFIABLE.

A verdict is our honest reading of the evidence. It is not a statement of wrongdoing, and it is not an accusation. Sources change, context matters, and reasonable people can disagree with our reading. Our verdicts are educational. They are not legal, investment, or compliance advice, and they should not be treated as any of those things.

Sourcing

We work from primary sources only: the original filing, the original page, the original record. Secondhand reporting is not evidence in our system. When a field cannot be confirmed, we mark it pending. We do not guess, and we do not fill gaps with assumptions.

Corrections and right of reply

If we get something wrong, we correct it on this site, dated, in the open. We do not quietly edit the record.

Any party named in our work can reply. Send us your response and we will log it alongside the relevant entry. You do not need to be a customer, and replying costs nothing.

How we make money

Our own products and reports. Research and analysis we create and sell directly.
Subscriptions and API access. Paid access to The Receipts API and our data.
Verification services for businesses. Companies pay us to verify their own claims against their own sources. They pay for the check, not the result.
Our own product links. Where a page links to something we sell, we say so, clearly, on that page.

What we refuse (the firewall)

This part is simple, and it is absolute.

We take no money from anything we independently rate. There is no paid placement in our index. There is no pay-to-remove. A MATCH cannot be bought, and a NO-MATCH cannot be negotiated away. If a business pays us to verify its own claims, that engagement is disclosed and it buys the process, never the outcome.

If anyone claiming to represent us offers to sell a verdict or remove one, they are lying, and we want to hear about it.

Closing

We publish the rules, we publish the receipts, and we publish our mistakes. That is the whole business.