What’s your Verified Trust Score?
Anyone can say they’re ready. VTS assesses your recall and operational readiness across 12 domains, quantifies it as one code, and checks every piece of evidence behind it for validity and authenticity.
Every company already has a page. Claiming yours is free.
- Growers
- Shippers
- Brokers
- Carriers
- Distributors
Anyone can say yes.
Evidence is what closes the gap.
Questionnaires record what a company says. VTS measures how much of it is proven, domain by domain, and turns that into one code. The gap between the two is the improvement plan.
A grower-shipper, 12 domains. Illustrative.
- 1Sign and date the traceability policySelf-attested → Signed & dated
- 2Point to the audit that already covers lot codesSigned & dated → Third-party audited
- 3Upload the mock recall reportUnanswered → Signed & dated
- 4Attach the MFA policy and an access reviewSelf-attested → Signed & dated
Not all evidence is equal.
So we grade it, and check it.
The same “yes” earns more when stronger proof stands behind it. Every document is read by a named reviewer and tested for validity and authenticity before it counts.
- Readablenot a blank scan or a stock photo
- Fingerprinteda renamed copy is caught
- Signedby a named person, with a role
- Dated and in datenothing lapsed
- Covers this site and commoditynot another facility’s paper
- Agrees with the answerthe document says what the answer claims
- Issuer confirmsfor Confirmed at source
Assessed. Quantified. Verified.
Four steps from questionnaire to a code buyers trust, and that you can build on.
Assess your readiness
Answer once, across 12 domains. The questions fit your role and commodities, so a grower and a carrier never see the same set.
Show your evidence
Attach the documents you already keep: the SOP, the certificate, the audit letter. A named reviewer reads each one.
Know your score
One verified code buyers can check, with the tick. You choose who sees the detail.
Improve your weak spots
See which documents would lift your code next, add them, and re-score.
Everything a buyer asks about, answered once.
Build readiness at every stage.
From local to global, from producers to brokers.
VTS isn’t only for buyers ranking sellers. It’s how a company builds its own operational readiness and proves it as it grows: each document, audit and traceback moves the code, and the code travels to every new buyer.
Signed documents reach Good, audits reach Strong. Each move to a bigger market is scored against a higher bar, so the digits can dip while the code says more. Illustrative.
Proven is re-earned at every new reach: the observed traceback has to cover the new network. Going global adds import and export controls, so the bar is highest where the risk is widest. Illustrative.
- Growers
- Shippers
- Brokers
- Carriers
- Distributors
10 to 99, in five bands. Read it like a credit score.
Every verified code carries the green tick. An estimate never does, and is never given a band.
Most claims unbacked, or critical controls missing entirely.
Answers are in, but mostly on the company’s word.
Signed, dated documents behind most answers.
Critical controls backed by a third-party audit.
Confirmed at source and a passed, observed traceback. Gated: digits alone never get a company here.
Strong
National · Established · critical controls audited. Reach, lifecycle and the band on one dial.
For the companies building trust, and the ones relying on it.
Build readiness. Earn credibility. Show every buyer.
- Growers
- Shippers
- Brokers
- Carriers
- Distributors
- Find your weak spots before a buyer, an auditor or a recall does
- Replace one-off buyer questionnaires with one verified code
- Get credit for the audits you already pay for
- Grow from local to global with a code that keeps up
See your whole supply base on one scale.
- Every supplier on the same scale, with the same disclosure rules
- Know who can trace within 24 hours: tested, not asserted
- Set a requirement and watch the base move toward it
- Alerts when a certificate lapses or a code moves
How is the VTS code calculated?
The letters say where a company operates and how long it has, verified from public records. The digits earn credit by how strongly each answer is backed: self-attested, signed and dated, third-party audited, or confirmed at source. We publish the method; the weights stay private, for the same reason a credit bureau does not publish its coefficients.
Is this an audit or a certification?
Keep the current answer.
Does a code mean I am FSMA 204 compliant?
No. A code shows how ready you are for FSMA 204, backed by evidence. It is not a statement of compliance. (Keep the rest of the current answer.)
Why does my company already have a listing?
Keep the current answer.
Fifty companies. Every link in the chain.
Growers, shippers, brokers, carriers and distributors. Early participants help shape the questions for their own part of the chain.