title: Verdict status: recruiting oneLiner: Browser extension that surfaces regulator-backed trust verdicts on the websites you visit. needs: [backend, frontend, design]
What we're building
Verdict is a browser extension that pulls public enforcement data — FTC actions, state AG complaints, documented dark patterns — and turns it into a single, citable verdict on whatever site you're looking at. The verdict is never editorial. Every signal is sourced and dated, and a "clean" badge is only shown when the underlying confidence is high.
Where we are
We're in Phase 0 — de-risking. The work that decides whether Verdict can exist at all is the identity resolver: given a website, can we identify the legal entity behind it accurately enough that the verdicts attach to the right company? The internal target is ≥90% on a hand-labelled evaluation set. Until we hit that, the extension UI is wired with stub data.
Data sources are loaded as MCP servers — one per source — so adding EDGAR, the FTC database, or Deceptive.design is additive instead of invasive.
What you'd do
If you join as a backend contributor, the work is on the identity resolver and on the trust-scoring formula (regulatory harm, complaint volume, dark-pattern signals, recency decay). If you're a frontend or design contributor, the work is on the verdict UI itself — surfacing a factual, citable score on a page in a way that doesn't feel like another trust seal.