Monetisation map

Guardrail. No takeovers, no interstitials, no placement above the independent ranking table.

Guardrail. Category partner block always sits below the independent leaderboard and is visually separated.

Guardrail. Promotions live in a separate 'Promoted by the company' block and never enter scoring or evidence.

Guardrail. A sponsor may not be a judged brand in that battle unless disclosed and governed by the independence panel.

Guardrail. Sponsors never see executive scores before publication.

Guardrail. Sponsor controls none of: inclusion, methodology, scores, ranking or editorial commentary.

Guardrail. Sponsor cannot influence entrants, timing, measurement or results.

Guardrail. Recovery scores are computed before any sponsor is approached.

Guardrail. Calculation logic and assumptions are published; sponsors cannot alter defaults.

Guardrail. Winners and reasoning are locked editorially before the sponsor is named.

Guardrail. Native placements carry the same 'Promoted' label as on-site inventory.

Guardrail. Editorial line-up is fixed before sponsorship is sold.

Guardrail. Attention Market inventory is advertising. It is ranked by commitment, never merged with the signal index.

Guardrail. Enterprise clients receive no ranking advantage; their public profile is scored identically.

Guardrail. Licensed data carries the same confidence grades and correction history as the public product.