The one mark, and what it will mean

There is exactly one badge on this marketplace, and it has not been granted to anyone yet. No shop and no listing carries it today. The rules that earn it are the rules on this page, they are the whole of them, and they are published here before anyone has met them.

What we will verify, and why no shop carries it yet

The mark cannot be bought, and it cannot be brought over from anywhere else. No amount of history on another marketplace carries it here, because it is earned on real production records against the rules below, which are published in full and are the whole of them. No shop carries it yet. When one does, this page is where you can check what that shop had to show for it.

What a maker has to show

The work is made by the person or the small team who lists it.
Production happens in batches, by hand, in a place they can name.
Photographs are of the actual items, taken by them.
Someone here has looked, asked questions, and been satisfied by the answers.

How the records are measured

The second rule is the one a shop's own records can show. Before a shop can ask for the mark, its records on Batchnook have to show all of these:

At least 12 batches logged in the last 90 days.
Records written on at least 8 different days in that time.
Materials attached to at least 80% of those batches.
At least 5 paid orders, from at least 5 different buyers.
At least 75% of what the shop sold is covered by what its own batches made.
At least 60 days of records in all.

Meeting them is where it starts, not where it ends: a person still looks, asks questions, and has to be satisfied by the answers. The mark stands for 12 months at a time, and the records are measured again before it runs out. If they go quiet, the shop is told 30 days before the mark comes off. These are version 1 of the numbers; when they change, the new numbers are published here first.

What it deliberately does not mean

This is the part most badges leave out, so it goes here in the same size as the rest. The mark is not a quality rating, not a safety certification, not an endorsement of any individual item, and not a promise about delivery. It is one narrow claim about who made the thing and how, added on top of the work rather than in place of it. A maker without the mark is not suspect: it is one thing a shop can show you, never the measure of the shop.

How it can be lost

The same way it is given: by a person looking. A shop that stops making its own work loses the mark, and the change is not quiet — anyone who asks is told when it was granted and when it was withdrawn.