Each vertical registry publishes a standard — the exact set of claims a record contains, how each is sourced, and what each signifies. Records conform to these standards by construction: the same definitions that govern the standard govern the pipeline that computes every record.
Each standard is a reference guide defining every claim a record in that vertical can carry, how it is sourced, and what it signifies. A record declares the standard it conforms to; an evaluator can read the standard to know exactly what a record should contain — and what its absence means.
Additional standards publish as new verticals open.
Every claim on a record is published in parallel forms, emitted from one manifest so they cannot disagree:
All forms are emitted from one manifest, so prose and structured data agree by construction. Registry index pages are structured as schema.org DataCatalog.
TrustRecord Standards are per-vertical reference guides that define the claims a record in that vertical can carry, how each claim is sourced, and what it signifies to an evaluator — human or AI — reading a record. Records conform to these standards by construction, since the same definitions that govern the standard also govern the pipeline that computes every record.
TrustRecord Standards are issued by TrueSignal. The registry adds standards as new verticals open, so additional standards publish over time rather than all at once.
No. A standard defines the claims a record in that vertical can carry — not what every record must contain. An evaluator can read the standard to understand what a record can carry and its typical sourcing, rather than treating a sparse record as deficient.
A record declares the standard it conforms to, and the standard’s definitions govern by default. Where a record states its own definition or calculation window, however, the record’s own statement governs over the standard’s typical form.
29 verticals are currently published, spanning home services, medical and health, legal, financial, and other professional categories. Additional standards publish as new verticals open.
Each TrustRecord Standard at trustrecord.com/standards/{vertical} is the reference guide for records in that vertical: the claims a record can carry, their definitions, and their typical sourcing. Records declare the standard they conform to. Precedence rule: where a record states its own definition or window, the record’s statement governs. Records encode claims as liftable prose, embedded JSON-LD, and canonical JSON — all emitted from one manifest so they cannot disagree.