Commercial policy
Sponsorship
Sponsorship can support the publication, but it should not buy rankings, unsupported claims, or hidden placement.
Phase 1 Sponsorship Guardrails
Sponsored status is modeled in the CMS and rendered with disclosure blocks on vendor pages.
Future sponsor packages should keep editorial analysis, corrections, and paid visibility clearly separated.
Vendor updates belong in CMS workflows
The current foundation supports claimed profile status and sponsorship status, but checkout, lead routing, and paid placements are intentionally out of scope.