Open Ratings is the trust layer for the agentic economy — independent, cryptographically anchored reliability grades for AI agent outputs and agentic transactions. Starting today, we are going to write about the work behind it in the open.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. The plan is simple: a steady cadence of short, dense posts covering the three threads we spend our time on. We do not want a marketing blog. We want a working notebook that other practitioners can read end-to-end without skimming.
What we will publish
Methodology notes. Why we anchor each rating in time, why our six dimensions look the way they do, and how the assessment process is calibrated against the credit-rating reference distribution. Some of these will be opinionated takes. None of them will reveal trade-secret weights.
Benchmark write-ups. Every time we publish a new benchmark cohort — COBOL, Fortran, federal modernization, open source — we will post a companion write-up explaining the cohort design, the harness, the inter-rater agreement, and what surprised us in the data.
Engineering posts. The cryptographic anchoring pipeline, the proof-of-work Merkle tree, the intake CLI, and the integration story for partners. We are building a lot of this in public, and we want the rationale to be public too.
Format
Posts are pure HTML. There is no build step, no markdown processor, no headless CMS. Each post is a hand-written file in /blog/posts/ with a JSON-LD BlogPosting block for crawlers. The listing page is a tiny fetch() against posts.json. The RSS feed is regenerated by a small script when posts change. That is the whole stack.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. The reason we like this design is that it survives the next five framework cycles. The site you are reading was deployed three years from now and it is still just files on disk.
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Old-school RSS lives at /blog/feed.xml. If you prefer email or Mastodon, hold tight — we will share an option once it exists.
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