Neutrality Commitment

Vendor Neutrality

This page describes how StackFacts maintains vendor neutrality across its products, where commercial relationships exist, and what constraints are permanent.

Output Neutrality

The following applies to all StackFacts products, permanently.

  • Architecture guidance, control requirements, eligibility criteria, and requirement generation are never influenced by commercial relationships.
  • Ordering of vendors never implies ranking.
  • Every conclusion includes reasoning.
  • Control requirements are stated as capabilities, not product features.

Full Stack Landscape

Full Stack Landscape outputs contain no vendor participation, sponsorship, or commercial influence of any kind. Technology stack analysis, positioning plays, and partner signals are generated entirely from the account data the sales rep provides and publicly available information. No vendor pays to appear in, be prioritized in, or be excluded from FSL outputs. This is permanent.

Architecture Assessments

Vendors may subscribe to receive introductions when architects generate matching requirements and opt in to contact. Subscription status determines visibility in the introduction channel. It never alters eligibility criteria, requirement outputs, or architectural guidance.

  • If a vendor does not meet the architect's requirements, it does not appear, regardless of subscription status.
  • Architects always control whether to share their information.
  • Contact is never automatic or assumed.

What We Never Do

  • No vendor logos in architectural diagrams
  • No "best of" lists, rankings, or comparative framing
  • No marketing language or promotional phrasing in outputs
  • No invented statistics or unverified claims
  • No pay-for-ranking in any product
  • No suppression of qualifying vendors who do not subscribe
  • No alteration of requirements based on commercial relationships
  • No sale of architect contact information without explicit opt-in

Reporting Concerns

If you believe a StackFacts output violates these commitments, please contact us. We investigate all reports.