Software selection as it actually happens: each function gates in turn, on the field the last one left. IT rules out what cannot pass a security review. Quality rules out what cannot run their processes. Finance rules out what cannot be defended. Every elimination keeps its reason and its source.
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Rank by
1 · Your product
The URL is not a formality. A harvester renders your public site in a real browser, drives your
pricing calculator and any wizards, and reads what a buyer would actually see — then proposes a draft record
you can correct. What it cannot find, it records as undisclosed, because absence of a mention is never treated
as evidence of absence.
Already registered? Load your listing and update it, rather than creating a second one — the listing
id comes from the product name, so retyping it even slightly differently would create a duplicate.
Shown on your card next to the score, exactly as you write it — the way a buyer skims a list
and decides what they are even looking at. Curated products in this catalog carry the same line, written by
whoever researched them. Keep it descriptive rather than promotional: it is a label, not a tagline.
Include your pricing page if it lives on another domain. Interactive calculators are fine — preferred, in fact.
Never shown to buyers, and never part of your public record. It is stored separately
from the listing, and it exists for two things: getting you back to your listing if you lose the link, and
reaching a human if a buyer disputes something on it. You can also find a listing again at any time by
searching for your domain — no email needed for that.
2 · Let the code look at the software
A website tells us what you say. The software tells us what you built. Point this at your product
folder and the reader works out what the product actually does — whether an administrator can build a form,
whether workflows are configurable without you, whether the audit trail can be altered — and cites the file
it found each answer in.
Nothing is uploaded. Your browser reads the folder locally and this page runs the reader on it;
only the derived answers and their file citations are ever sent.
What the reader does, and what it refuses to do
The point is to let a machine confirm what you can do without asking you to hand your product to a
competitor. The terms are narrow and worth reading:
Your source never leaves this machine. The reader runs in your browser. What is posted is the derived answer — "conditional fields, found in FormSchemas/_templates/ncr.json" — and nothing else.
Records are counted and ignored. Spreadsheets and exported registers are your customers' data, not your software. They are never read and never scored, and if the folder is full of them you will be told.
It reads mechanism, not vocabulary. A file named for a module proves less than a definition file carrying the key that implements it, and a word that appears in every page is treated as navigation rather than as evidence.
It cannot see a certificate. Source can show that signatures bind to records. It can never show that an auditor signed anything, so certification claims stay capped no matter what is in the folder.
It never reports absence. Not finding something is a fact about the search. Anything unfound stays undisclosed — exactly as it does for a vendor who never registered.
It can lower your score. If the software contradicts your site, the observation stands over the copy. That is the entire reason a buyer would believe any of it.
3 · What is still unanswered — optional
Registering takes a folder and a URL. This is not a form to fill in; it is the short list of
questions the reader could not settle from either, and you can leave every one of them blank.
The ones marked NOBODY ANSWERS THIS are the ones no unregistered product in
this category discloses at all — the questions that decide purchases and that the market is silent on.
Answering here can only ever add. Anything the reader observed in your software or on
your site already stands and is not shown below — you cannot overwrite an observation by typing over it.
What you do answer is recorded as attested, never as a published document, because nobody grades
their own evidence. Skipping leaves it undisclosed, scored as zero, exactly as for a vendor who never
registered.