How Bikoosh verifies what it publishes

Five rules apply to every product on this site. Each product then has its own method page with the exact checks, fields and limits.

The rules every product shares

1. Read, do not infer. A status, a rate or a listing is published only when a page said it. What no page said is published as unknown, not guessed.
2. Source and date on every claim. Each fact links to the page it was read from and states when it was read. Re-reads are recorded; changes get a dated change entry.
3. Verdicts need cited evidence. A page that calls a program legitimate cites at least two independent sources on the page itself, none of them the operator's own pages. That floor is enforced where the page is served, so a record whose evidence falls below it stops having a verdict page at all. Promotion to a verdict also asks for a source establishing that the program pays the people who work on it.
4. An honest crawler. BikooshBot obeys robots.txt and crawl delay, sends its own User Agent, never impersonates another agent, and stops permanently on a refusal. It never bypasses a block.
5. No public verdict against a named third party. The site records what operators, platforms and vendors publish and do, and it does not rank them against each other. A legitimacy page exists only where the evidence supports a positive verdict; where it does not, there is no verdict on any public page, and the screening notes behind that decision stay internal rather than being published as a warning.

Each product's method

• DataWork Watch: the daily application-status check, the field dictionary and the evidence floor for legitimacy pages.
• Shutdown Watch: how shutdown dates and migration paths are sourced and re-verified.
• Tender Watch: the five official tender sources, their licences, the trade classification and the Section 20 timeline rules.
• AEO Watch: the seven checks run against a domain, the labelled edge probe, and the limits of what a User Agent test can show.
• Answer Watch: one engine, its recorded answers, and how brand mentions are read from them.
• Kickoff Watch: licensed broadcaster sources per country and how a listing is confirmed.
• Bikoosh fraud report: the four detection channels and the weekly numbers with their derivations.

What the site does not do

It does not run a language model inside any product page. It does not buy data, pay for placement, or accept it. It does not send email to anyone who has not asked for it and confirmed the address. Every automated step is logged in the platform's own ledger, and the press kit links each published number to its derivation.

Corrections: how they work.