PeptideClear Trust Index
Changelog
Every material change to the PeptideClear Trust Index, dated and explained: methodology changes, new sellers scored, and corrections to something we got wrong. We publish this because a score that can silently change, or silently stop applying, isn't independent verification, it's just an unaccountable claim.
Corrections specifically: [email protected], addressed within 5 working days. See also methodology and the live index.
- 2026-08-14 Methodology
Right-of-reply clause added for scored retailers
A retailer who disputes its CoA Trust Index score can submit evidence for re-check. The existing "no payment changes a score" independence line was made explicit for disputes specifically.
- 2026-08-14 Correction
Fixed a letter-grade display bug: 37 shown in the A-band vs 26 green-tier
The letter-grade panel counted retailers by raw six-signal score, which does not reflect the conduct/identity cap applied to a retailer’s tier. A retailer capped from green to amber (a conduct flag, or no findable UK trading entity) was still shown an A-band letter. Fixed: the letter grade now respects the same cap as the tier. A+/A/A- now sum to exactly the green-tier count.
- 2026-08-14 Correction
Fixed green-tier badges displaying as blue sitewide
A theme colour-token remap broke the "green" class family used by every CoA-strong badge, on the index and on every individual retailer page. Fixed across the shared scoring library and every page that renders a tier badge.
- 2026-08-14 Independence
Independence-claim sweep: affiliate language removed from ~20 pages
A pre-19-July "we earn affiliate revenue" claim had not been fully swept from prose on ~20 pages, including inside machine-readable FAQPage data served to AI Overviews and ChatGPT. All references corrected to match the true, current position: zero commission from any retailer, clinic or pharmacy. Four orphaned affiliate IDs also removed from the underlying data, and the build-time independence guard widened so this class of gap cannot recur silently.
- 2026-08-13 Coverage
Real CoA scoring completed on every previously-unvetted seller
84 sellers promoted from identity-only "unvetted" to a real, six-signal scored tier (23 in the first wave, 61 in the second); 38 confirmed dead, parked or blocked rather than force-scored on incomplete data. Ascend Peptides UK added and scored green, 95/100, A+.
- 2026-08-11 Coverage
106 newly-identified UK sellers added as unvetted
A broad discovery pass (search, Companies House sweep, social-media sweep, DNS/analytics cluster resolution) identified 106 additional UK research-peptide sellers, merged in as identity-only "unvetted" pending the real CoA check.
- 2026-07-20 Independence
Site fully de-monetised: zero commission from any retailer
All affiliate tracking, referral arrangements and commission copy removed sitewide. Outbound links kept as plain, untracked links. Two retailers previously scored inside the index while also carrying an affiliate relationship were corrected. A build-time guard now throws if any affiliate field reappears in the retailer dataset.