Dimension
Indication Fit
How closely the proposed intervention matches the condition being treated and the seriousness of the evidence base for that indication.
Methodology
How Scores Work
The index is deliberately skeptical. It does not reward optimism. It rewards traceability, evidence fit, procedural logic, and the absence of documented fraud signals.
Nine dimensions
Every score is a composite of nine due-diligence questions.
Dimension
Evidence Fit
Whether the provider can point to peer-reviewed human data for this product type and this condition, rather than generic mechanism claims.
Dimension
Product Identity
Whether the product is specifically named, documentable, and traceable to a manufacturer, release criteria, and lot-level paperwork.
Dimension
Manufacturing Discipline
Whether processing, QC, and release look like a real manufacturing system instead of a black box with good branding.
Dimension
Donor and Biosafety
Whether donor screening, sterility, endotoxin, and handling controls are knowable rather than assumed.
Dimension
Provider Competence
Whether the clinician has the procedural logic, image guidance, and safety infrastructure appropriate to the offer being made.
Dimension
Measurement Rigor
Whether the provider defines baseline, follow-up, and success in measurable terms instead of testimonial language.
Dimension
Travel and Recourse
How much practical recourse remains if the treatment occurs across a border or outside standard malpractice pathways.
Dimension
Marketing Honesty
Whether the offer is framed with documented uncertainty or inflated through urgency, guarantees, and payment-before-docs pressure.
Valence logic
Answers move the score by signal strength, not by sentiment.
- Positive answers add 14 points to the mapped dimensions.
- Caution answers subtract 6 points from the mapped dimensions.
- Hard-flag answers subtract 22 points and append a flag to the results view.
- Curious mode and regret mode begin from different baselines because the user arrives in a different decision state.
Reading the result
A high score is permission to verify, not permission to relax.
Proceed with Confidence means the offer is documented enough to keep moving with your eyes open. Significant Gaps Identified means there are specific items to resolve before money moves. Stop. Read the Breakdown. means the offer currently contains too many hard signals or missing systems to treat as safe enough for payment.
The breakdown exists to make the next conversation sharper: what to request, what to verify independently, and what to walk away from if the answer never arrives.