Transparency & disclosure
Does the vendor show its work — publish methodology, cite third parties, and state its own limitations?
Requirements, evidence source, and references
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Transparency & disclosure
6 requirementsDoes the vendor show its work — publish methodology, cite third parties, and state its own limitations?
Performance claims are accompanied by actual numbers rather than adjectives.
"Minimal impact", "negligible overhead" and similar phrasing, with no figure attached, scores as no claim at all.
Third-party or independent validation is cited, and the citation is not circular — a source that itself cites the vendor does not count.
Test conditions behind any published figure are stated: hardware, software versions, iteration counts, and what was being measured.
Known limitations are disclosed by the vendor rather than found by a reviewer.
Technical claims are attributed to named people rather than to the company in the abstract.
A reader with the same hardware could in principle reproduce the vendor's published figure from what is published.