Level A — Primary records
Regulatory registers, court records, company filings and completed independent audit materials are the starting point for legal identity, license scope, enforcement and certain financial claims.
Level B — Operational documents
Current user agreements, custody terms, fee schedules, status pages, security reports and provider documentation establish contractual rules and public product behavior.
Level C — First-hand testing
Standardized, timestamped tests can establish observed costs, product flows, support paths, accessibility and execution at a stated time and place. They do not prove future performance.
Level D — Company claims
Marketing pages, press releases and official blogs establish that a company made a claim. Unless independently verified, our language remains “the company states” or “the website claims.”
Level U — Unverified
Claims without a traceable source, identifiable entity or appropriate evidence do not influence a score. When the gap concerns identity, custody or legal status, it may stop the score.
Community evidence
Visitor reviews are experience reports. Moderation approval does not establish their accuracy, and they cannot verify legal, financial or security claims.
Retrieval and change control
Each source carries a retrieval date. Fees, terms, entity scope, regulatory status, product versions and incident responses are re-checked against the linked primary record when a file changes; an old capture never silently becomes a current fact.
Scenario record
First-hand claims require a declared market, account class, product version, device, asset, amount, timestamp, steps and retained output. Until those fields and results exist, the scenario is not counted as evidence even when provider documentation describes the expected flow.
Citation and machine access
Core content is rendered as semantic server-side HTML. Canonical URLs, structured data, the research index, RSS and sitemap mirror the visible record. llms.txt is only a curated navigation aid; it is not special content for Google, a ranking claim or a substitute for unique people-first analysis.
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