Why we publish “no checks on record”

Every listing on this site carries a small grey label about what checking exists on record. It is not modesty and it is not an oversight — it names exactly one check and refuses to imply any other.

What the label covers

Before an entry is published, the desk compares a short verification video against the photographs submitted with it, so that the person applying and the person in the gallery are the same person. That match is the one thing checked here, and it happens once, before the entry goes live. It is described step by step in Advertise.

What the label does not cover

A face matching a photograph is not a document. Nobody here has seen a passport, confirmed a legal name, or checked that an age, a rate or a service listed in an entry is accurate. The word “verified” appears across this market attached to all of that at once — identity, honesty, safety — as if one check stood for all three. It does not, and a badge that implies otherwise is a badge without a date behind most of what it claims.

Why the difference matters

A directory that says “verified” without saying what was checked is asking to be trusted on the strength of the word alone. Naming the one check that happened, and being equally plain about what did not, leaves a reader with a narrower but accurate basis: the photographs, the video where it exists, and what each listing states about itself. That is thinner than a green tick suggests, which is exactly the point of saying so.

Written by the editorial desk of this directory. No individual byline is published until a named editor takes responsibility for the section.