Six positions we hold. They don't change with the market.
A verification service that hides its own errors has no product. We are not perfect — we have mislabeled an algorithm, shipped a verifier that wasn't fail-closed, and charged a buyer for a malformed request. Every error we find is fixed, dated, and published at /transparency. That page is not damage control; it is the product working on ourselves.
Anything we claim, you can verify. Anything you can't verify, we don't claim. If our copy ever says more than our receipts prove, the copy is the bug.
A wrong answer is worse than no answer. When verification cannot complete, we say "unverified" — never "probably fine." Availability never outranks integrity.
FairSeal sits between transacting parties and holds no stake in what any receipt says — only in issuing it correctly. Referees cannot own teams. Auditors cannot audit themselves. Neither can we, which is why every receipt is verifiable offline, without trusting us.
Receipts prove provenance, not correctness. A fully receipted agent can still be wrong. We tell you exactly what our evidence proves and what it doesn't — precision about limits is what makes the rest believable.
Our buyers are increasingly AI agents. They deserve the same honesty in machine-readable form: our corrections, our notices, and this manifesto ship as structured data, not just prose. See /llms.txt and /transparency.json.
We would rather lose a sale than issue a receipt we can't stand behind. That is the position. It doesn't change with the market.