How Aegis stays neutral

Aegis is a trust layer. A trust layer is only worth anything if it is neutral. So the neutral index is kept structurally separate from anything commercial.

Aegis Index — free, neutral

The trust scores, the live directory, the reliability data, the methodology, and the public audit trail. Free. It never charges to produce or change a rating, and it never routes payments. This is the reputation layer.

directory · methodology (/spec) · state of x402 (/reliability) · audit the data (/provenance)

Aegis Pro — paid

Routing, monitoring, premium data feeds and subscriptions. Commercial, and clearly separate — Pro is a customer of the Index like anyone else. Paying for Pro cannot buy a better trust score.

The pledges

Open methodology. How every score is computed is public (/spec). A rater nobody can audit is not a rater.
We rate ourselves too, and disclose it. Aegis’s own endpoints are probed and publicly marked (self=1). Integrity over vanity.
No pay-for-rating. No one can pay to raise, lower, or remove a trust score.
Tamper-evident history. The reliability record is a public, hash-chained audit trail (/provenance) designed for on-chain anchoring — it cannot be quietly rewritten.

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