1. You type
Name, city, profession, optional website. That is the whole brief.
Methodology v1.1 · wall certificate + web embed
A 30-day public-web Snapshot of whether customers can find a named local professional. Gold is the expected band for an operating business with public proof — not a ranking, and not a claim the work is finished. Hang the wall certificate. Embed the mark. Verify the ID.
How it works
Name, city, profession, optional website. That is the whole brief.
Four queries: best-in-city, near-city, name, reviews. Then the website if you gave one. DuckDuckGo / Bing HTML via a worker when deployed — no paid key.
Appearance, who showed up instead, five dimensions, a city rank card, five ways to climb. On-screen. Print if you want — we are not selling a PDF.
What we score
Published ratings, review volume, awards, press, portfolio, credentials. If a page did not state a number, we leave it blank.
Expensive / Average / Affordable / No signal. Inferred from review language, or classified against peers then the dollar amount is thrown away. Thin data → No signal. Never a fake “expensive” for flavor.
Review themes, recency, complaint patterns. Not a star we made up.
Who cites them: directories, “best of” lists, press. If they are absent from the listicle that ranks, we name that URL.
The original question: do they appear for “best [profession] in [city]”? Count of mentions. Not “you rank #3”.
Subject vs 4–8 others from the same search. Weights on the page. If we lack three dimensions, the row says insufficient data.
Real example — not a composite
Austin wedding photographer. Score 71 Gold under Methodology v1.1. Certificate LC-US-TX-2026-739184. Customers book on The Knot and live WeddingWire; she is missing or listed as TLC / Tess Cagle. Zola is live (5.0 / 36). Maps was blocked, not treated as absent. Gold is not “best” and not “no work left.”
Honest v0
workerUrl is set, otherwise use the demo. No ads. No sponsored rank.
Price
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