Agents decide things the people they serve cannot see. The Mark is the part they can. It is drawn by Stub from an operator’s own receipts every time it loads, never hosted or edited by the operator, and it changes when their record does.
Every business that stands between a person and their money is eventually required to say who is paying it. Brokers, financial advisers, estate agents, comparison sites. It arrived for all of them, and by the time it did, saying it was a cost with nothing on the other side.
An agent that can answer that question today is in a different position from one that cannot. It has an answer when a customer asks, when a partner’s legal team asks, and when the rule is eventually written by someone with no particular interest in how your business works. Answering early is what turns the answer into an advantage.
And it changes what your users see. Without it, they have your description of what your agent did. With it, they have the record, resolving somewhere you do not control. That is a different kind of credibility, and it is not available to a competitor who has not been issuing.
An agent paid by the sellers it ranks can carry the Mark, as long as its receipts say so. Stub rewards operators for being legible about their incentives, not for having none. So the honest answer costs you nothing you were protecting.
Nobody here reviews an operator’s business or approves of it. The rules are mechanical and identical for everyone, including the agent Stub runs itself. What a reader finds when they check is the operator’s own record, and reading it is the point.
A receipt carries the influence an operator’s system records: commissions, boosts, partner filters. A bias absorbed by a model that no flag anywhere captures will not appear in one.
Nothing separate to install, buy, or apply for. Issue receipts through the registry and the Mark turns itself on, and your operator page hands you the line to embed the moment it does.
Open a live operator pageThe Mark reflects the registry. If an operator stops issuing, it changes on its own within minutes.