Voltry takes no title to hardware, holds no inventory, and does not act as a marketplace, custodian, or broker.
Neutrality & fees
Voltry does not own, price, or broker the hardware it certifies.
Voltry takes no position in the hardware it certifies, emits no valuation output, and earns no fee from a grade outcome, asset value, or transaction closing. Relying parties can use the evidence in their own models; the resulting number remains theirs, under their signature.
What Voltry does not do
One evidence record, available to every party.
Buyers, sellers, lenders, insurers, marketplaces, and auditors can reference the same signed evidence without Voltry owning the asset, brokering the transaction, deciding title, or producing the number a financing or sale will use.
Valuation stays with the relying party
The valuation boundary is a working pattern, not an information gap. A relying party may compute haircuts, reserves, or a borrowing base on its own side from scoped evidence and retain a receipt identifying what its model consumed. Voltry does not sign, display, or own that result.
Controls
Six controls separate evidence from ownership, pricing, and legal judgment.
Each mechanism below is stated in VCM-1 as an architectural boundary or verification property. Together they separate evidence production from ownership, pricing, and legal judgment.
No Voltry output states or implies price, appraisal, resale value, haircut, advance rate, reserve, borrowing base, or worth.
Fees are functions of service scope, coverage, duration, and volume - never grade outcome, asset value, or a transaction closing.
Market observations, where collected, remain in a separately governed store that cannot enter a certificate, grade, or certificate-lane model.
Attempts append rather than overwrite. Signatures, chain links, and inclusion proofs against a published signed root make later alteration or removal detectable.
A relying party may compute its own valuation outputs from disclosed evidence, in its own model and under its own signature. That number never appears on a Voltry surface.
Registry identityAssurance stated on the face
Attempt 01C0 / A0 · retained Attempt 02new evidence · appended Checkpointinclusion proof · signed root
Tamper evidencesignature + chain link + ledger proof The fee principle
Every fee is a function of work and scope. None is a function of value.
VCM-1 names four permitted drivers: service scope, coverage, duration, and volume. A fee never improves with a grade and never moves with hardware value or a transaction outcome.
Every basis is a function of work, never value
Service scope
The work requested and the surfaces or artifacts it requires.
Coverage
The capture or monitoring coverage the service must provide, without implying a quality outcome.
Duration
How long the service operates or the monitoring obligation remains active.
Volume
The number of devices, records, or repeated operations within the agreed service scope.
These are fee bases, not a public price schedule. No Voltry surface states or implies the asset's value, and no fee is contingent on a deal clearing.
Out of scope
What Voltry does not determine.
The methodology does not resolve legal ownership, missing instrumentation, or missing evidence. Each remains explicitly outside the claim when the required basis is absent.
- 01
No lien search
Declared security interests can be recorded and conflicting assignments surfaced, but Voltry does not search filings or opine on perfection, priority, or encumbrance.
- 02
No adjudication
Ownership and custody remain attributed declarations. A credential reaching a device is not proof of title, and conflicting claims are surfaced rather than decided.
- 03
No inferred exposure
Facility-side electrical exposure is Not Assessed unless separate facility instrumentation measured it. Board power cannot establish supply conditions.
- 04
No blended score
Condition stays visible across seven axes. The future VGR-1 letter is a non-compensatory minimum over required gradable axes, not an average.
- 05
No optimistic silence
Missing or unreadable evidence renders Not Assessed; a policy without the evidence it needs renders Not Assessable. Neither is quietly converted into health.
Valuation remains outside Voltry
Voltry supplies classified, scoped, replayable evidence. A lender, insurer, or buyer may compute
its own decision from that evidence under its own policy and signature; Voltry does not turn that
decision into a certificate claim.