The scoring math is public. That’s the point.
A category standard has to be checkable by anyone, including the companies it scores. Here is exactly how a Trooth posture score is computed, witnessed, disputed, and consumed. No black box, no pay-to-raise.
Witnessed postures are readable by anyone, procurement suites, GRC tools, spreadsheets. Public reads need no key.
Every Network profile carries two clearly separated layers, and they are never mixed:
Trooth witnesses; it does not attest, certify, endorse, or rank editorially. The advisory on every profile says exactly this.
The Network directory offers exactly two orderings, and both are mechanical facts:
There is no “recommended” list, no featured placement, and no paid position, and there never will be. Sorting orders published facts; it does not endorse a vendor. Every connected company is re-witnessed hourly, so recency is not a differentiator either.
Any company can unpublish its profile at any time. But the Network’s outside-in read of its public surface remains, refreshed daily, labeled honestly as unclaimed. Delisting doesn’t make the questions go away; it just removes your witnessed answers, your branding, and your voice from the page buyers are already reading. A low score with a rising trend beats no voice at all, and the score planner shows exactly how to claim the next points back.