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The Three Questions for "Verified"

A word like that is a claim about what was checked, against what, and what was left out. Enter the ones you received this week. The tool shows which of the three questions already have a written answer and builds the message to ask for the ones that are missing.

This tool does not certify anyone or say whether a claim is true. It reads which answers are written down and which are not. How to read the reply and what to do with what they left out is in the guide.

1. The three questions

A claim is a phrase someone hands you so you can lean on it. The answer to each question has to be written by whoever makes the claim.

1: What exactly was checked? A named scope, not "everything."
2: What was it compared against? A source or standard you can open, or their own criterion.
3: What was left out, and who says so? The one making the claim says it, or a third party does.

If the claim is in one language and your work or contract is in another, the tool adds a fourth question: was it checked in both?

2. Your claims (1 to 5)

One card per claim. Everything is chosen from a list: there is nothing to type, no names and no prices.

3. Your reading

What you choose here is not sent anywhere and is not saved in your browser: it lives only in this tab and disappears when you close it. The only thing that travels, if you ask for it, is your name, your email and the options you chose.

How the tool reads

These are our rules, written here so you can check them. Each claim is read on its own.

Each question ends up answered, partly answered or unanswered. Answered means they say it by name and scope, against something you can open, and someone writes down what was left out. Partly answered is "everything" or "reviewed" with no scope, or their own criterion that they don't show you. Unanswered means they don't say. Anything not answered is an open item.
A claim is complete if it has no open items and open if it has any. Language only counts when the claim and your work are in different languages.
Your first request comes only from the open claims. The highest risk wins; if tied, the one with more open items; if still tied, the one you entered first. A complete claim with high risk does not beat an open claim with low risk.
If there are no open claims, there is nothing to ask for: what is left is deciding whether what they left out is enough for you. If you entered none, we ask you to enter one.
The message asks only for what is open and comes out in the language of the claim that goes first.

What this reading does not measure: naming a source does not make it true (open it), silence proves nothing, and a complete claim is not a good claim. That is why we give no score and do not compare vendors.

How it looks in two businesses

A high-end jeweler (imagine)

Imagine its software vendor hands it a word with no scope, no source and nothing said about what was left out. It marks "they don't say" on all three and the tool builds a three-question message, not one more.

A keynote speaker (imagine)

Imagine the contract is in Spanish and the claim arrives in English, with everything else answered. The tool marks language as the only open item and the message is a single question, written in English.

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Built from the October 28 article by Naty Ross and Todd Ross. For the guide, send CHECKED on WhatsApp and we will send it to you.