Know before you buy ONE A WEEK
Conflict disclosure: The Trenches Lab operates a free tool in an adjacent space to some of the companies audited here. We publish facts and receipts only, and every scoring band is published so you can re-derive any score yourself from the sources we cite. Judge the evidence, not us.

PLATFORM AUDITS

Somebody should check the people selling you the checks

Paid signal groups, trading communities and copy-trading products make claims in public: performance figures, member counts, guarantees, a company name in a footer. All of those are checkable, and almost nobody checks them. So once a week we take one platform, run the same five steps against public records, and publish exactly what comes back.

Published so far1 audit CadenceOne a week Scoring bands7 items, published Cost to be auditedNothing

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The audits

Every audit is a page of rows: what the marketing says on the left, what a public record shows on the right, with a source and an archive link on each. No verdicts, no scores we cannot show the working for.

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How we choose, and what we promise

The rule that decides who gets audited, and in what order.

The rule

We audit paid trading and paid signal products in descending order of how many people they advertise reaching. Audience size is the only ordering criterion. We do not select for suspicion, we do not accept payment to audit or to skip an audit, and the queue is published before the work starts.

A product qualifies if it charges money for signals, calls or a trading community, advertises publicly, and makes at least one checkable claim. Out of scope: private groups making no public claims, individual people rather than businesses, and free tools with nothing to sell. Companies and their published claims are audited. Individuals are not.

PROMISE 1

Published whatever it finds

An audit that clears a company is published in the same place, at the same size, as one that does not. A watchdog that only ever prints bad news has stopped measuring.

Audit 001 clears its subject on three of seven claims.
PROMISE 2

You can re-derive every score

The score measures one thing: how checkable a company's public claims are. Not whether the product is good, not whether anyone made money. Every band is published beside the total, so any score on this site can be re-derived from its own evidence.

Anything unchecked is named, and counts neither way.
PROMISE 3

Reply any time, published in full

Any company audited here can respond at any time, with no deadline. Replies are published on the page unedited and in full. Anything shown to be factually wrong is corrected the same day, with a dated line that stays visible.

hello@thetrencheslab.com

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Ask us to audit a platform

About to pay for something and cannot tell whether it is real? Send it here. Already paid and it went badly? Send it anyway — it is still worth checking for the next person.

What happens to what you send

It is never published. Requests are not shown on this site, not counted in public, and never turned into a list of accused companies.

A request is a lead. It changes what gets looked at next. It does not change a finding, and it does not jump the queue: the rule above still orders the work by audience size.

No money, no wallet, no keys, no account screenshots. An email address, if you leave one, is used once: to tell you the audit is published.

If you have been defrauded, the useful next steps are your payment provider's dispute process and your national regulator. This site is an archive, not a recovery service. Nobody from here will ever contact you offering to get your money back — anyone who does is running the second scam.