Win enterprise deals with third-party verified proof.

One customer claim taken through the whole method: captured with its provenance, the commercial record behind it examined under non-disclosure, Form VS-3 issued to the organization named in it, and the determination published with its full log and carried current for twelve months. One claim, one unit, at whatever level it attains.

A unit rate, falling across four bands: Starter at three to nine units, Standard at ten to twenty-four, Category at twenty-five to ninety-nine, and Register above a hundred. Renewal of an existing unit in a following year is charged below the rate for a new one. Rates are quoted on request and are identical for every vendor in a band. There is no negotiation, no bundling, and no discount outside the published bands, because a register whose price moves with the buyer's leverage is a negotiation rather than a standard.

It publishes as not verified, on the same record, in the same format, and the unit is charged in full. There is no refund and no withdrawal. This is the most common reason a vendor hesitates and it is the only reason the record carries weight in a deal. A register where the failures quietly disappear is a brochure with a seal on it.

Entirely. You nominate which claims become units and in what order, and most vendors begin with the accounts their sales team already cites. What cannot be done is stop a unit once the enquiry has been issued. Choosing what is tested is yours. Choosing the answer was never available.

You receive the determination, the deployment stage and the dated log of every step. You do not receive the identity of the respondent, their free text, or anything from which either could be worked out. Organizations answer the Forum honestly for exactly one reason, and that reason is that the answer does not reach their vendor.

After three attempts across six weeks the entry publishes as no response, marked clearly as a failure of contact rather than a failure of the claim. The unit is charged. Where you can route us to the correct function we will issue again at no further charge, because a wrong contact is a cost the Forum would rather absorb than publish.

Four to seven weeks from commercial examination to publication for a first batch, and faster once your records are familiar. The enquiry stage is the variable: it depends on how quickly an organization routes the letter to the function that can answer it.

Nothing. Capture is free and permanent, and your record remains public whether or not you ever speak to the Forum. The register is built by category rather than by subscription, because a register containing only paying members tells a buyer nothing at all.

Yes, and you will see theirs. Every record opens for anyone holding the link, and the whole category sits in the register for subscribing organizations. The comparison is the product. It cuts in your favour at precisely the moment you have done the work and they have not.

The level remains on the record permanently. The currency lapses, the entry reads unconfirmed, and the mark drops to reflect only what is still current. Renewal re-issues the enquiry at the renewal rate. A lapse is not a mark against a vendor, but a buyer comparing two records will notice which was kept current.

Yes, through the Ombuds, which sits outside the research function and can order a re-examination at the Forum's own cost. What the Ombuds cannot do is delete an entry. A correction is added, dated, and published beside what it corrects, and the Forum's full corrections log is public.

Not today. The register covers AI and Data, Cloud and Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, Security, Risk and Governance, and Business Transformation. Outside those the Forum will decline rather than widen the scope to fit the work in front of it.