You Get Screened Out Before Anyone Calls You.
Procurement checks your website first. More and more, so does their AI. They look for your privacy policy, your data protection agreement, and the list of other companies that will touch their data. If the answers are not there, they do not email you to ask.
They move on. Nobody tells you why.
You lose in three places at once. Sales Missed — you never make the shortlist. Operations Not Met — their delivery team cannot tell whether your product will fit their systems, so they assume it will not. Exposure Risk Avoided — their legal, risk and cyber people cannot confirm you meet their rules, so they pick a supplier who published the answer.
BlackSnow reads your website the same way they do, and shows you what they found and what they could not find. Free, no account, any website.
- Every Finding Quotes Its Source
- EU, UK, US And Australia
- No Score, No Grade, No Ranking
Key Facts
Data Activities
Signal Snapshot
One country read against its own rules is a review. One company read end to end, with the sentence behind every finding, is a deep dive. One read of a company’s published pages against the 42 points is a scan — read the same company twice and that is two scans and one company, which is why both numbers are here. Every 42-point scan is also a PET Zero Trust Scan: it watches what the site sets before you touch anything, what it sets on Accept, and what survives Reject. The last two counters split every scan by how it was run.
— Scan Attempts With No Response — the request went out and no page ever came back, so nothing was read, and none of them is in the figures above. — Companies Not Yet Read — the domains among those attempts that appear in none of the six figures.
Refreshes Every 30 Minutes
Everything We Have Read, Seen From Orbit.
Every reading sits somewhere. The Observatory puts the jurisdiction libraries, the company records, the scans and the calculator reads on one globe — and lets you look through a single lens at a time instead of all of them at once. The whole thing is running below, full size. Click it and it is yours.
— Jurisdiction Libraries, — Company Records and — Scans, each one read against the rules of the place it sits in. The globe above is the Observatory itself, running on this page at full size — not a picture of it, and not a smaller second version. The pill in its top corner hands scrolling back to the page, and so does Esc once nothing is open inside it.
Every Buyer Reads Your Website 3 Ways. Any One Of Them Can Kill (Stop) Your Deal.
One company, one Amber finding, read by all three. Here is what it costs with each of them.
“Can procurement answer its own questions?”
Partly AnswerableThe buyer looks for proof and finds half of it. You do not get a rejection. You get left off the shortlist, and nobody sends an email to say so.
How This Use Is Defined Operational Operations Not Met“Can they tell if it fits their systems?”
Partly DisclosedTheir delivery team needs to know how your product connects, where the data sits, and who else touches it. If your site does not say, they cannot plan the work, so they assume it will not fit.
How This Use Is Defined Regulatory Exposure Risk Avoided“Can legal and cyber sign this off?”
Partly AddressedLegal, risk and cyber have to sign that you meet their rules. They cannot sign for something they cannot check. Avoiding that risk is easy — they choose a supplier who published the answer.
How This Use Is DefinedSame company. Same Amber finding. Three ways to read it, three separate reasons to go with someone else. Run It On Your Own Domain
Four Places To Start.
The Second Balance Sheet
You can see the product you bought. You cannot see the other companies behind it. That is the idea the whole platform is built on.
The Platform
Start with the fact. Go deeper when you need the analysis. Six layers of one method: Observe, Compare, Explain, Investigate, Connect and Resolve.
Jurisdictions
Follow the data country by country, so you can see the company your supplier hired as well as the supplier you signed with.
Research & Method
Forty jurisdictions read against their own rules, every finding quoting the sentence it came from, and every gap recorded as a gap.
We Publish Ours At Plain Addresses, In Ordinary Markup.
The calculator reads what a company publishes without signing in, running its scripts or asking it for anything. Ours is linked from here rather than assembled in your browser, so software that follows links reaches it the same way you do. Run the check on this domain and see.
What The Check Showed Them.
BlackSnow Intelligence showed us what a buyer’s software would actually find on our site, not what we thought we had published. That distinction is the whole problem. I recommend it without reservation.