Event policy
How paid rank works
Plain-language rules for a factual, principal-ranked paid-advertising event.
One seven-day factual board
One English-first event board admits independently reviewed AI-software products. A product may be admitted while Checkout remains open only after owner authorization, source-backed eligibility review, accepted terms, and an immutable admission decision.
The board may truthfully open empty or small. Authorized products with no positive eligible principal credit remain in an explicitly unordered unfunded group and receive no rank number.
Principal determines rank
Eligible verified USD rank principal is summed for each active listing. Positive totals rank from highest to lowest under the documented deterministic tie-break. Tax and customer total do not add rank credit.
A displayed target or passing price is not a reservation. Another eligible payment, refund, dispute, or safety action may change current settlement and rank.
Timing and publication
New Checkout creation closes before the event cutoff. Open sessions and financial obligations continue. At cutoff, pre-cutoff provider events reconcile before a frozen factual cutoff board is published.
Later settlement changes append dated corrections. The cutoff snapshot is not silently rewritten, and the event does not publish a commercial experiment verdict.
Advertising and limitations
Every listing and board position is paid advertising. Rank is not a quality, safety, popularity, endorsement, investment, or maker-payment claim. Third parties may fund a listing.
No position, duration, traffic, impression, lead, sale, or other outcome is guaranteed.