🆕
New Service
Recently created services (45 days or younger) that are still gathering activity data. We'll re-evaluate automatically as new data becomes available.
VG
ValidGuru
Verify Services. Avoid Scams.
How Verification Works
We analyze transaction and billing activity (not personal customer data) to determine whether a creator or service demonstrates consistent, real-world business activity. The goal is to help users find trustworthy creators while protecting both customers and creators from fraud.
* Currently we only verify services that use Stripe for payments. We plan to expand verification to other platforms in the future.
Verification Classifications
⏳
Pending
Services that are more established (older than 45 days) but haven't yet shown enough independent signals to be verified. This is common for early-stage creators. Services can only remain in the pending status for 30 days, before verification is rejected and they are automatically removed. We re-evaluate your service automatically as new data becomes available.
Stripe Verified
Services that demonstrate multiple independent signs of real activity — for example, paid invoices and payout history plus additional supporting signals. These services get a verified badge. We also re-evaluate these services periodically, to ensure they continue to meet our verification standards.
⚠️
Verification Rejected
(Not publicly visible) Services with multiple clear indicators of synthetic or suspicious activity, or accounts that have been in Pending status for more than 30 days (new accounts will be rejected and existing accounts automatically removed from the platform). Rejection is reversible — continue to grow your service, build credible history, and apply again.
What We Evaluate (No Customer PII)
We only use non-identifying financial and activity signals from Stripe — timestamps, counts, amounts, statuses — never your customers' names, emails, addresses, or payment method details.
📊
1. Subscriptions
Stability, age, and distribution of subscriptions to detect recurring business models vs synthetic signups.
💰
2. Pricing & Products
Presence of realistic products and prices, and whether prices are actually used in paid transactions.
👥
3. Customer Activity
Customer counts and activity trends (IDs and timestamps only) to measure retention and growth.
📄
4. Invoices
Paid invoices are the strongest indicator of real revenue — we check payment outcomes, amounts, and timing behavior.
💳
5. Charges
One-off charges and their patterns (success rates, refunds, disputed transactions).
💵
6. Payouts & Balance
Whether Stripe has issued payouts and the cadence/size of those payouts — a strong sign that Stripe accepts the business as legitimate.
How We Decide Verification
- 1
We analyze multiple independent categories of account activity.
- 2
To be verified, a service must show multiple independent signs of real activity across these categories.
- 3
Services with multiple categories that indicate synthetic or suspicious behavior will be rejected.
- 4
New and pending services are re-evaluated automatically as they collect more activity.
Why We Don't Publish Exact Metrics
We intentionally do not publish exact testing metrics. This helps prevent bad actors from gaming the system while still being transparent about the types of signals we use. If your service is not verified, the dashboard will show broad reasons as to why (ex: Short transaction history).
Privacy & Security
We do not store or read your customers' identifying data (names, emails, addresses, payment details, etc). We only analyze aggregated, non-identifying activity fields from Stripe under your restricted read-only permission.