{"version":"v1","dimensions":[{"key":"capabilityCoverage","weight":0.45,"name":"Verified capability coverage","rationale":"The core buying question is 'does it actually do X'. Coverage counts a capability claim only when the weekly crawler validated its evidence URL on the vendor's own site — an unvalidated checkbox is worth zero. Weighted per category via the capability-group blueprint (compliance weighs more in Billing than in PIM). Non-verifiable kinds (workflow) earn at most half credit."},{"key":"evidenceVerification","weight":0.15,"name":"Evidence verification rate","rationale":"Of the claims that can be checked, how many passed the last crawl. Rewards vendors whose documentation actually supports what their listing says."},{"key":"evidenceFreshness","weight":0.10,"name":"Evidence freshness","rationale":"Full credit when the last verification pass is 30 days old or less, decaying to zero at 180 days (where the eligibility gate takes over). Software changes; stale evidence is weaker evidence."},{"key":"agentReadiness","weight":0.15,"name":"Agent readiness","rationale":"Buyers increasingly integrate software with AI agents. This is the existing deterministic 0-100 composite over API surface, protocol support (incl. probed MCP servers), SDKs, integration ecosystem, and developer experience."},{"key":"dataCompleteness","weight":0.15,"name":"Data completeness & pricing transparency","rationale":"A complete profile and public pricing are what buyers ask for first. 'Contact us'-only pricing scores this dimension's pricing half at zero — that is an editorial position, and a published one."}],"exclusions":[{"what":"Paid tier / any payment","why":"Positions are never sold. Tier buys labeled placement strips and vendor services only."},{"what":"AI web sentiment","why":"Non-deterministic, unauditable, and astroturfable — two runs differ, so nobody could recompute the ranking. Display-only."},{"what":"Review ratings","why":"At current review volume a handful of reviews would swing positions. Display-only until a category has meaningful volume; any future inclusion will be Bayesian-smoothed and version-bumped."},{"what":"Popularity / telemetry","why":"Views and MCP appearances create rich-get-richer loops and are farmable. Vendor analytics only."},{"what":"Editorial badges","why":"Editor's Choice and Top Rated are labeled overlays, never score inputs — and never assigned to house products."}],"tieBreakers":["Verified capability coverage (raw dimension score)","Most recent claim verification","Alphabetical by product name"],"gates":{"minRankedProducts":8,"staleDays":180,"removalDays":365,"minCoreCoverage":0.5}}