Place the evidence you were sent

What rung is it on?

You are holding something a vendor published: a benchmark page, a trust center, a report, a claim. Answer from what is actually in front of you. If you cannot tell, say so, and the ladder will not move up on your behalf. Nothing you answer leaves this page.

step 3 · which questions apply

What is this artifact about?

Read the title and the first paragraph. A benchmark, an evaluation, a model card, or a trust page is about the method. A certificate, an attestation, or a deletion report naming a request identifier, a date, and a scope is about one case.

This is not a scored question. It decides which questions are worth asking. A benchmark is never about your own request, and a case artifact is never a public baseline, so asking one set of questions about the other kind of evidence produces a false reading.

Proof Registry holds 34 published artifacts on this same ladder, including ours and including where a competitor beats us. Start over.