Methodology and scoring
Domain before brand; record before reputation.
The score is an evidence rule, not a commercial ranking. Search demand or popularity can never create a green signal.
Discovery
Affgate, the local SERP and public questions create the queue. They prove neither licensing nor a scam.
Entity resolution
Names are normalised and conservatively deduplicated without merging ambiguous brands.
Primary record
Exact domain, operator, number and status are compared on an MGA host.
Separate context
Reviews and forums enter with dates and limits; they never become proof alone.
Signal
Green only for a current primary match; red only for official or corroborated adverse evidence; everything else is amber.
Research-to-article contract
Scoring.csv contains exactly 18 selected rows. Each route has one static article fragment. The next isolated pass replaces that element with a brand-specific original article of 1,800–2,500 words, without a sentence pool or shared prose.