The canonical third-party evidence layer · Patent-pending (PPA #5 + #6 + #7 + Authyr PPA #1)

The technical embodiment of arbitration.

Every consumer-services dispute — BBB, state AG, small-claims, chargeback, insurance, licensing board, Google/Yelp review — has been adjudicated without neutral evidence. Authyr is the neutral evidence. Signed at the source, immutable forever, court-admissible, verifiable by every forum.

For lawyers, doctors, contractors, auto, beauty, and financial practices: lower fear-tax (liability + legal + chargeback), win more disputes, hand the BBB / your insurer / your lawyer a silver-platter timeline whenever something escalates.

Legal · Medical · Home services · Auto · Beauty · Financial From $99/mo · saves $8-40K/yr in fear tax Verified Articles included · ships Sept 14, inside your Founding free period Evidence every forum can verify
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§ 01The problem

A single fake review can cost a service business six figures.

Existing review platforms profit from review volume regardless of authenticity. The economics will not improve until someone builds the layer beneath them.

Today's status quo

Asserted trust — gameable, suppressible, hostile to both sides

Yelp and Google reviews go public the moment they post. The reviewer might never have been a customer. The business has no economic mechanism to resolve the complaint before the public sees it. Existing review CRMs (Birdeye, Podium) blast unverified CSV lists and get filtered as spam by Google's algorithm. Detection tools (Reality Defender, GPTZero) play whack-a-mole against fabricators who iterate faster than any classifier. Nobody wins except the platforms collecting ad revenue.

The Authyr primitive

Positive proof — verified customer, 30 days to make it right, then immutable

Multi-signal proof that the reviewer is a real customer of the business. A 30-day private window where the owner can resolve the issue before the review goes public. An immutable record afterward that the owner cannot suppress and the reviewer cannot revise. A portable cryptographic receipt the business displays on its own website. Affirmation, not censorship — Authyr attests, never removes.

§ 01bThe five-forum dispute matrix

Every services dispute lands in one of five forums. None of them have neutral evidence.

Authyr is the third-party signed-evidence layer underneath all of them. The brand phrase: the technical embodiment of arbitration.

Forum
Disputes per practice / yr
What they need
What Authyr provides
Regulator BBB · state AG · licensing board · SEC · FTC · AHJ
1 – 6
Third-party timestamped record
Signed receipt the forum has never had
Payment network Visa · MC · Amex chargeback · ACH
5 – 40
Proof of service delivery
Merchant win rate ~40% → ~95%
Insurance general liability · professional · E&O · auto · homeowner
0 – 5 claims · annual renewal
Pre-incident verified state of work
Premium discount + claim losses fall
Court small-claims · civil · family
0 – 4
Court-admissible signed evidence
Cryptographic signature + chain = admissible
Reputation Google · Yelp · BBB rating · state board public record
Continuous
Verified-customer attestation
Tier-rated portable receipts

Five forums × dozens of disputes per practice per year × every consumer-services industry on earth. The same primitive resolves all of them.

§ 01cWhy practices pay for this

The fear tax. Every practice pays it. Authyr collapses it.

Every service business on earth pays a yearly "in case something goes wrong" tax. It's the universal services-buyer hook — better than review lift, better than search visibility.

Today — annual fear tax

Conservative range per practice. Varies by vertical.

General liability insurance$3K – $25K
Professional liability / E&O / malpractice$8K – $100K+
Cyber + data liability$2K – $15K
Lawyer on retainer$5K – $50K
Chargeback losses + write-offs$5K – $40K
Compliance audit + review$3K – $20K
Total annual$26K – $250K+

With Authyr — fear tax collapsed

Conservative single-practice savings. Every line above moves when evidence is signed at the source.

Liability premium reduction10 – 25%
Lawyer hours when sued1/4 the billable
Chargeback win rate~40% → ~95%
BBB / state AG complaint cycleDays, not weeks
Compliance audit timeQuery, not reconstruction
Authyr SaaS cost$1,188 – $7,188 / yr
Net fear-tax savings / yr$8K – $40K+
§ 02The killer feature
Patent-pending · PPA #7

The 30-day pre-publish service-recovery window.

Every other review platform on the internet — Yelp, Google, BBB, Trustpilot, Birdeye — sends a bad review public the moment it's submitted. We don't. A verified review enters a 30-day private window where only you and the customer can see it. You have a month to make it right. After 30 days, whatever the review reads becomes the public record — immutable, owner-suppression-proof, with a transparent resolution badge.

Day 0

Verified review submitted

Multi-signal proof completes. You receive immediate notification with full content and the customer's contact. The public record shows nothing.

Day 1 – 29

Service-recovery window

Make it right. Refund, redo, comp, sincere apology. The customer can withdraw or update voluntarily — you cannot.

Day 30

Window closes

Whatever the review reads is now the public record. Cryptographically sealed, immutable. No owner-delete. No reviewer revisions.

Forward

Resolution badge attached

"✓ Resolved within window," "Owner engaged · Issue unresolved," or "Owner did not respond." The badge carries strong signal both ways.

§ 02bThe second flagship feature · v1.1 ships Sept 14

Stop hiring content agencies. Your patients are already writing better SEO content.

Verified-customer experience articles — long-form, human-authored, signed by Authyr's cryptographic chain. Indexed by Google for per-procedure long-tail SEO. Replaces the $3–8K/mo you're paying an agency to produce E-E-A-T-penalized AI rewrites. PPA #5 covers the substrate.

Today — content marketing

What an independent practice pays an SEO/content agency. Conservative range.

Content agency retainer$3K – $8K / mo
Generic AI rewrites published0 – 2 / mo
Per-procedure long-tail SEO surfaceMinimal
E-E-A-T penalty riskHigh and rising
Authority signals (provider named, real outcome)Low
Spent / year$36K – $96K

With Authyr — Verified Articles

Customers write. Authyr verifies and signs. Google indexes. PPA #5 covers the substrate.

Verified-customer experiences published5 – 30 / mo
Cryptographically signed at publicationPPA #5
Per-practice + per-procedure SEO surfaceAggregation pages
E-E-A-T penalty riskNone — verifiably human
Practice costIncluded in Practice / Firm tier
Displaced / year$36K – $96K

Cumulative annual value per practice: ~$55K – $231K · Authyr Practice tier: $3,588 / yr (Founding cohort: $0 for six months → lifetime 50% off)

§ 03Verification stack

Seven signal types. No single one suffices — the combination is the proof.

Each signal is patent-clean against prior art (Chen US 9,842,340) because none operates on real-time device-location services at the moment of submission. Two or more signals trigger a verified attestation; three or more produce the top tier.

Payment-rail attestation

Stripe / Square / Toast / Clover webhook confirms the card was swiped at the business's POS at a specific moment. Pulled from the processor, not the customer's phone.

Receipt EXIF + OCR

Customer photographs the receipt. EXIF GPS, capture timestamp, and OCR'd business name + transaction ID triangulate. Post-hoc, never real-time location-services.

NFC / QR proximity tap

Counter-mounted or table-side cryptographic token. RF/visual proximity at a known moment — different signal domain from device location.

POS one-time review token

The receipt prints a single-use signed code. Redeemed once to begin a verified review. Cryptographic chain, no device telemetry needed.

Booking confirmation

Scheduled-appointment record from the business's calendar (Calendly, Acuity, Clio, Dentrix, etc.). Standard byproduct of professional-services ops.

Cross-correlated photo EXIF

Multiple photos with coherent timestamps and locations inside the business. Reverse-image-searchable provenance hardens the proof further.

Witness corroboration

Another verified Authyr customer present at the same time corroborates the reviewer. Network proof — gameable only if the network itself is compromised.

§ 04Tier-rated portable receipts

Every verified review carries its tier. The tier travels with the receipt.

Authyr signs each review cryptographically. Any partner platform — Google, Yelp, BBB, Healthgrades, Avvo, your own website — can independently verify the receipt. The signature is the trust; Authyr is the issuer, not the gatekeeper.

Triple-verified

Three or more independent signals. Flagship for legal, medical, financial.

Double-verified

Two independent signals. Default for home services, auto, beauty.

Single-source

One verification signal. Lighter-weight but still better than the default.

Self-attested

What every existing review platform produces. Shown for contrast.

§ 05Architecture

A vertical SaaS. A consumer network. An API. All three reinforce each other.

Authyr ships on three surfaces. Each is monetizable on its own. Together they form the moat — Birdeye can copy a SaaS, but not a verification primitive backed by a public network and a patent thesis.

LAYER 01

Vertical SaaS

The operator-facing product. Flat-monthly. Sits next to your practice-management or operations system. Configured per vertical with the right verification signals on by default.

  • 30-day window on by default
  • Multi-signal verification stack
  • Resolution dashboard + customer chat
  • $99 – $399/mo per practice
LAYER 02

The Authyr Verified Network

A consumer-facing destination at authyr.com. Every business gets a public profile showing tier-rated review history, resolution rate, and tenure on the network. Embeddable badge for your own surfaces.

  • Look up any business publicly
  • Embed verified reviews on your own site
  • "Verified by Authyr" badge for everywhere you control
  • Free for businesses to claim a profile
LAYER 03

API + Capture SDK

For practice-management tools, news organizations, insurance carriers, and platforms that need verified-customer or verified-content attestation as a service. C2PA-interoperable.

  • Verify API for third-party platforms
  • Capture SDK signs content at capture time
  • Per-verification or enterprise pricing
  • Private preview in 2026 H2
§ 06Industries

Built for high-LTV services where one bad review really hurts.

The wedge is wherever a single fake or unresolved review costs $20K to $100K+ in lifetime value. The 30-day window is most valuable there. Each vertical configures the signal mix that fits its workflow.

Personal Injury law

$10K – $200K / case

PI firms spend $20-100K/mo on ads. Each verified review is worth multiple cases.

Family · Estate · Immigration

$5K – $50K / matter

Emotional clients. The 30-day window saves relationships before they hit Avvo.

Doctors · Dentists · Derm

$5K – $50K LTV

HIPAA-clean dataflow. Service-recovery window is uniquely valuable in healthcare.

Contractors · Electricians · Plumbers

$1K – $50K / project

Damage-claim defense + verified testimonials beat Angi's anonymous reviews.

Auto repair · Body · Dealer

$500 – $50K / job

Payment + receipt + photo are readily available. Damage-claim defense is gold.

Medspas · Salons · Therapists

$2K – $20K LTV

Verified testimonials beat anonymous Yelp for booking conversion. Photos help.

Financial advisors · Accountants

$5K – $100K LTV

Regulatory comfort with verified-customer attestation. 2027 vertical.

Veterinary

$1K – $10K LTV

No HIPAA friction. Highest review-response rate of any vertical modeled.

Plus 2027+ general authenticity

API / per-verification

Dating · photojournalism · insurance claims · court evidence · KYC · academic.

§ 07Run the numbers

The cost of one bad review you can't recover from.

Move the sliders. The math updates live. Conservative defaults — for high-LTV services, the real damage is usually worse.

0%
Consumers read reviews before hiring a service business
$0
Avg LTV impact of one bad legal-services review
0d
Private window to resolve before public
0
Independent verification signals in the stack
Estimated cost · one bad review
$45,000
Annual Authyr Growth ($299/mo × 12)
$3,588
ROI if Authyr saves 1 review/yr
12.5×

The 30-day window doesn't have to save every review — it only has to save one a year to pay for itself many times over. For PI law and plastic surgery, even one resolved review per quarter dwarfs the annual cost.

§ 08Affirmation, not censorship

Authyr never removes content. We attest.

Every other authenticity company in 2026 is framed as a watchdog. That makes them politically un-adoptable for news organizations, government, and roughly half of every consumer audience. We chose differently on purpose.

Watchdog framing

Detect → flag → recommend takedown

Reality Defender, Sensity, Hive Moderation, GPTZero. Default action is content removal. Useful in narrow contexts but politically toxic at scale — adoption is bounded by which side of the culture war the customer belongs to. The classifier treadmill never ends because fabricators iterate faster than the models.

Authyr framing

Attest → label → viewer decides

We never decide what is misinformation. We give a cryptographic receipt for content that meets our verification bar. Content that doesn't meet the bar gets a transparent label, not a takedown. Same trust mechanic as the immutable review record — affirmation through provenance, not gatekeeping. News orgs, government, both political tribes — all can adopt without political risk.

What Authyr doesn't do — so the pitch survives a sharp buyer's questions

We do NOT push verification metadata into Google, Yelp, or any third-party review platform. Those platforms don't accept third-party data on review submissions, and any vendor claiming otherwise is misrepresenting the technical reality.

We do NOT auto-post reviews to Google, Yelp, or Facebook on behalf of a customer. The customer always writes on their own device, signed into their own account. Anyone promising "auto-post to all channels" is overpromising.

We do NOT give business owners the ability to suppress or delete a verified review after the 30-day window closes. The whole product is built on the immutability promise. If we broke it, the trust signal would collapse.

What we DO is verify the customer, provide a 30-day private resolution window, post an immutable record with a resolution badge, sign each record cryptographically so any platform can independently verify it, and give the business a portable receipt to display on every surface they control.

Limited program

Founding cohort — first 10 practices, six months free.

We're picking 10 charter practices across legal, medical, and home services. Six months free in exchange for honest feedback and the right to publish results. Lifetime 50% off after.

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Founder thesis

The internet has identity (Stripe Identity), payments (Stripe), messaging (Twilio), and bank linkage (Plaid). The trust layer no one has built is verified-customer evidence — signed proof that this reviewer was actually a real customer of this business, anchored in payments, receipts, and physical artifacts rather than gameable location data. Authyr is that layer. Reviews are where we start. Arbitration — BBB, state AG, insurance, chargeback, court — is where it lands.

Frequentor — hospitality sensor-fused (Tier S)
Authyr — services + general authenticity (Tier A/B/C)
FAHE — operator decision verification
Veridose — medical dose verification
§ 09FAQ

The questions buyers actually ask.

Wait — can the business owner just delete a bad review?

No. That's the whole product. The owner has 30 days to resolve the underlying complaint with the customer before the review goes public. After that, the record is immutable — cryptographically sealed, no owner-delete, no reviewer revisions. The owner's only power is to resolve the situation with the customer; if they can't, the review posts with a transparent "issue unresolved" badge.

Why isn't this just Birdeye / Podium / NiceJob?

Those tools are review CRMs. They blast unverified CSV lists and pray. Google's spam filter increasingly throws their requests away. They have no verification primitive, no 30-day window, no immutable record, no portable receipt. We're the layer beneath them — and the 30-day window plus the immutability promise create a moat they cannot replicate without rebuilding from scratch.

Doesn't this run into existing patents on GPS-verified reviews?

Authyr's architecture was deliberately designed around Chen US 9,842,340 — the existing patent that covers real-time GPS verification at moment of review submission. Our stack uses post-hoc, non-location-service signals (payment trails, receipt EXIF, NFC taps, POS tokens, photo provenance, booking confirmations, witness corroboration). None of these read on Chen. The 30-day mitigation window is covered by our own PPA #7, filed under the Frequentor LLC patent series.

Can I display verified Authyr reviews on my own website?

Yes — that's a primary value. Yelp and Google jealously guard review data, so businesses can only embed screenshots with attribution disclaimers. Authyr-verified reviews are signed at issuance and the signature can be independently verified by any third party. You embed our widget; the trust travels with the badge.

What about HIPAA, state-bar rules, and other compliance?

HIPAA Business Associate Agreement on all medical-vertical plans. State-bar review-rule compliance packs for the legal vertical (50-state rule enforcement at the prompt level). CMS audit trail format for healthcare verticals where required. SOC 2 Type II on the 2027 roadmap.

Why "affirmation, not censorship"?

Every detection company in this space is framed as a content moderator. That framing puts them firmly inside the culture war and bounds their addressable market. Authyr's default action is affirmation — we attest that real content is real and label unverifiable content rather than removing it. News organizations, government, platforms, and both political tribes can all adopt without political risk because we never take a position on what is "true," only on what is verifiable.

How does this work with Frequentor?

Frequentor is the hospitality network with sensor-fused Tier S verification (radar + thermal + ESP32 + multi-signal). Authyr is the services + general-content surface with Tier A/B/C multi-signal verification. Same parent company (Frequentor LLC d/b/a Authyr). Different verticals — no cannibalization. Authyr inherits the verification IP and the affirmation framing. Frequentor stays focused on hospitality.

The review you can show on your own website.
The 30 days you can use to make it right.

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