Public Trust Readiness measures whether a company is easy to verify before a conversation starts.
EntityProof looks at the public signals serious decision-makers and automated screening systems can see. The goal is to find trust leaks, explain the risk they create, and identify the highest-impact repairs.
Framework and scope
EntityProof is an applied diagnostic direction of Eugene Prudchenko's Semantic Authority Network. Its operating standard, Semantic Authority Methodology v1.0, provides the broader evidence and observation framework. This page describes EntityProof's separate, reviewable Public Trust Readiness model.
The free website check is not a full application of Semantic Authority Methodology v1.0. It examines accessible pages on one website and reports observations, limitations and up to three next actions. It does not issue the Ready / Needs Work / High-Risk Gaps review statuses below or a numerical authority score. Those statuses and their existing weight boundaries belong to the broader review model, not to individual website observations.
- Provenance
- Record the exact source URL, publisher, relevant excerpt and method. A source-linked observation is not independent company verification.
- Freshness
- Record the observation date and any source publication or effective date. State unknown dates and stale evidence explicitly; do not imply continuous monitoring.
- Independence
- Identify company-controlled sources and independent corroboration separately. Related sites, duplicated claims and third-party hosting alone do not establish independence.
- Limitations
- Not checked, source unavailable and insufficient evidence remain observation limits, not company-level judgments. Actual search/AI outputs must be collected before making representation claims.
Signal map
Six surfaces shape the first judgment.
A company can be real and still look uncertain if these public signals are missing, inconsistent, too thin, or hard for a reviewer to understand.
Website proof
Founder credibility
Search presence
Third-party proof
Authority profiles
AI and screening readiness
Evidence boundary
The method rewards clarity, not artificial authority.
Only real, verifiable company signals count.
Thin or unclear public proof is treated as a trust leak.
Unapproved numeric weights are not published; review status uses Ready, Needs Work, or High-Risk Gaps.
The check is not an SEO ranking guarantee.
The check is not a compliance, legal, banking, or payment-provider approval service.
Artificial authority, fake reviews, fake offices, fake employees, and rented credibility are excluded.
Criteria table