Our methodology

• Brand advertising (AdSense / direct): Ad slots in sidebars, article tops and list footers, physically separated from scoring modules and tagged “Ad”.
• Promoted slots / IB rebate links: Brokers can buy “promoted” slots at the top of a list or affiliate links on their profile — these carry a yellow “Sponsored” pill, sit outside the rating, and never change the red/yellow/green color.
• Premium membership (individual): PDF risk reports, price alerts, signal subscriptions, ad-free browsing.
• Enterprise data API: Media, risk teams and compliance vendors subscribe to the full dataset with SLA, billed by call volume.
• White-label solution: Embed our rating engine into a partner's website or app.

The hard line: Ads and promotions buy visibility, not a score. Scores are computed automatically by the algorithm against public data; humans cannot override them, and any change goes through a 30-day public RFC on GitHub.

• A reviewer must complete KYC + provide proof of position to earn the “verified” tag.
• Every review is checked by an AI anti-spam model.
• Bursts of reviews from the same IP / device / linked accounts are auto-flagged.
• Reported reviews go to a community committee for public arbitration.

Most rating sites in this industry sell rankings and review removal — their scores effectively act as a price list. We don't think such scores have any value to retail traders.

So we wall the rating off from the wallet: brokers cannot buy weight in the algorithm, cannot pay to remove reviews, cannot “appeal” a score — only factual corrections (verifiable, objective information) are accepted. Revenue comes from clearly-labeled ads, promoted slots, memberships and enterprise APIs, none of which touch the score.

• Sources are public and checkable. Regulatory and licence data come from regulator sites (FCA, ASIC, CySEC, MAS, NFA, and growing), collected by automated crawlers, with a source link and capture timestamp on every adjustment.
• Changes are logged. When a broker's score crosses a threshold or its traffic light changes colour, it is written to the history record (Time Machine) so every change is traceable.
• The algorithm is versioned. Current algorithm version is v1. Iterations publish change notes and tag the algorithm version used for each score.
• Notarisation (planned). We plan to anchor score snapshots and appeal evidence on-chain to further strengthen immutability.

• Scoring relies on available public data; missing items are not guessed but marked as pending or excluded.
• A high score does not mean "safe profit" or "zero risk" — only that the broker is more transparent and compliant on verifiable dimensions.
• Regulatory status can change at any time; always verify via the regulator's official channels.