The evaluation checklist
When you are ready to judge a real service, this is where the literacy becomes practical. Three pages, each a set of questions you can run before any money is at risk.
What the checklist is sorting for
You rarely compare two near-identical services. In practice you are deciding whether one service has earned your trust, and the honest way to decide is to ask whether its claims can be checked rather than how confident they sound. The checklist turns that into concrete questions: can a past call be confirmed against a public timestamp, is the win rate shown with its full count, and do the results carry the fingerprints of fabrication or curve fitting.
The grid below puts the idea into a single picture. It sorts the kinds of “proof” a service might show by how much of the checklist each one can actually satisfy. The lower a row sits, the harder its evidence is to fake — and the single row that answers every column is a record pinned in public ahead of its outcome.