The methodology, in full. If you can’t see how we got a number, the number doesn’t count.
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This page is the contract. Every review we ever publish is built exactly this way — and when the method changes, this page changes first, with the edit history public. The full detail lives across the Ratings and Testing pages below — this page is the canonical summary both stand on.
Full retail, no notice, no press samples, receipts on file. If a store knows we’re coming, we’ve already failed.
Members fund the bench. Industry funds the platform. Never crossed — it’s a contract term, not a promise. Sponsor product gets tested like everything else, and the review says so.
Five pillars, twenty-five points, one leaf — vibrant green down to ashes. Hardware runs its own eight-pillar track.