For capacity operators

Get your fleet graded — and, when the harness ships, Verified

Buyers cannot tell your fabric from a rate card, so the market prices you like the sellers who publish nothing. The registry exists to break that: grades are computed weekly from what you state in writing, free, no submission required. Disclosure moves your grade; measurement will move your tier.

Tier today: graded from what you publish

Every offering we track is graded A/B/C/D/U from published specs per ASSAY-1 §5 — fabric type, per-GPU bandwidth, topology, largest contiguous allocation. Grades measure what sellers publish — deliverability of the written claim, not measured performance. No fleet holds a measured (Verified) badge yet; that tier arrives with the verification harness. If your grade looks wrong, the fastest fix is also the cheapest: publish the number. We recompute weekly from public sources and correct in public; send a source by replying to any issue of the report.

Tier next: Verified — measured, not stated

The verification harness (spec §8) is an open CLI you run on your own metal. v0.1 ships with the all-reduce probe: measured collective bandwidth across your largest contiguous allocation, emitted as signed JSON the registry ingests. No fleet holds a Verified badge yet — the first cohort will be announced in the report, and being in it is the point: Verified is conspicuous exactly while it is rare.

The founding cohort: free, and deliberately limited

The first ten fleets are verified free — we run the probe with your team, you keep the raw output, the teardown publishes whether it flatters you or not. This is a launch subsidy, not the business model: the credential has to mean something before it can carry a price, and ten Verified fleets is what makes it mean something. A genuinely good fabric with no brand has the most to gain — a measured DCB number is the sales asset your rate card can never be. To claim a slot, reply to any issue of the report with "harness" and the fleet you want measured.

After the founding cohort, verification is operator-funded, on the model every credential that ever mattered has used — UL bills the manufacturer, SPEC bills the member, because the operator captures the value of the mark. Priced per run, well under what one lost enterprise deal costs. Grading from public disclosure stays free forever — that is the registry, and it is not for sale. Only the measured badge is a paid service.

Who this is for right now: if you sell verifiably better fabric and keep losing deals to a cheaper rate card on a price-comparison table, a measured grade is the one thing that ends the argument. That is a funded, this-quarter problem — and it is why the badge is worth paying for.