Definition
Trust Intelligence, defined.
Trust Intelligence is the discipline of converting scattered behavioral evidence — screenshots, receipts, bank transfers, witness statements, police references — into a structured, verified, continuously scored record that an institution can query and act on. It sits alongside identity intelligence and credit intelligence as a distinct layer of trust infrastructure, not a replacement for either.
It starts with a verified reporter, not an anonymous claim
Every report on a Reputation Record is filed by someone who has already passed identity verification themselves — and, by the same reciprocity rule that gates viewing, holds their own Reputation Record. Nobody can hold another party accountable without being accountable themselves. That single design constraint is what separates Trust Intelligence from an open review board: the input layer is adversarially resistant by construction, not by moderation after the fact.
The score is computed, not declared
A Reputation Record's trust score is not a stored number an admin can edit — it's recomputed from scratch, from the full report history, every time the record is viewed. A clean record grows over successive time periods; each new report against it deducts a percentage of the current score, weighted higher when the report carries attached evidence and higher again when multiple named witnesses corroborate it. If a dispute is formally resolved in the subject's favor, most — not all — of the deduction is restored, so the record reflects that the accusation was contested and overturned, not that it never happened.
Because the score is a live function of history rather than a cached value, changing the underlying methodology retroactively recalculates every record correctly, instead of leaving old scores stranded under an outdated formula.
Every claim is disputable, and disputes are permanent
A record subject can formally dispute any report filed against them. The outcome — upheld or resolved — is written to the record's permanent timeline alongside the original claim. Trust Intelligence treats a resolved dispute as data, not as a reason to delete the original entry: a record that can quietly erase its own history isn't evidence-based, it's just another self-report.
Community verification fills the gaps identity checks can't reach
Identity verification confirms a static set of facts once. Trust Intelligence needs a way to confirm claims that only other people who've actually interacted with the record holder can speak to — a former landlord, a business partner, a colleague. RRSource's peer verification flow lets exactly those people confirm or contest specific claims directly, adding corroborated context that no identity document could ever contain.
See it applied to a real record.
Search any Reputation Record to see verification tiers, the live score and the full timeline — or read how it compares to identity and credit systems you already use.