Chapter 02 of 04
The Launch Notes · Vol. 01 No. 04
The Map · 02
September 2026 · London
A partner stack, not a marketplace of promises · Verification
What “profile verified” is allowed to mean
The phrase is doing careful work. Documented firm identity. Practice pages. Named people. A minimum engagement we can write down. Evidence that the category is real. That is all. It does not mean we have audited their work. It does not mean a regulator likes them. It does not mean they are the right counsel for your facts. The issuer retains them. The issuer pays them. The issuer fires them.
If we cannot document those facts, they are not on the directory. A Telegram handle with good gossip is not a profile. A firm that will only be paid in the issuer’s token for an audit is a screen flag, not a listing. A communications shop that refuses a claims register is not a specialist we will intro to a client we have just taught to keep one.
Profile fields
If we cannot fill them, we do not list them.
- Category
- One primary job. Not “full-stack Web3.”
- Jurisdictions
- Where they actually practise or operate.
- Buyer fit
- Who should even take the meeting.
- Minimum
- So nobody ambushes them with a £400 ask.
- Verification
- Facts on file. Never “approved.”
- Referral SLA
- How fast we will make a named intro.
- Evidence
- What we saw. Not a testimonial farm.
The public directory is a subset. Some specialists will not want a page. They can still sit on an internal map. Public is not the same as useful. Useful is a logged intro that both sides understood.