{"non_affiliation":"probe402 is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or compensated by any endpoint or operator it grades. Every claim here is a dated observation from our vantage, never a statement about what an endpoint is.","who_we_are":{"operator":"probe402","operator_name":"Zach Bucheister","operator_url":"https://vibermacher.com","operator_url_says":"That page names the operator, the operating company and its registration number, and describes probe402 by name. It is the same person's other site, so treat it as identity corroboration rather than an independent source — what it gives you is a company and a person to check against registers we do not control.","contact":"hello@probe402.com","accountability":"probe402 is run by one named person. Corrections, disputes and requests to stop probing an endpoint go to the contact address above and are answered on the published window; every correction ever filed is at https://probe402.com/corrections, including the ones where we were right.","method":"https://probe402.com/method"},"method_url":"https://probe402.com/method","rubric_url":"https://probe402.com/rubric","corrections_url":"https://probe402.com/corrections","conflicts":"probe402 grades its own endpoint on the same seed list, with the same code, and says so on every observation via a self flag that labels but never routes.","when_we_pay":{"the_instrument":"The collector is STRUCTURALLY unable to pay: the request builder accepts no header parameter at all, and a test walks the import graph and fails if anything signing-capable becomes reachable. The same test holds for the surface you are reading this on. It is a property of the instrument rather than a policy — there is no setting that turns it off — which is what makes it something you can check instead of something we promise.","the_separate_tool":"That is not a claim that probe402 never pays anyone, and it should not be read as one. The instrument that takes the readings cannot pay; a separate, named tool that lives outside it — `serve/tools/settle-leg.ts` — can, and it is what pays. Which endpoints get paid is a decision a person makes one endpoint at a time, and the tool refuses to move money without a stated reason, so each run's receipt records which endpoint and why. It is not a global setting, and nothing on the clock can reach it. Some endpoints we probe place real phone calls when paid, which is why that decision is made one at a time and why the thing that probes you hourly cannot make it.","paid_probes":{"what":"probe402 pays a small, named set of covered endpoints real USDC to check delivery claims — currently: whether the facilitator an endpoint advertises in-band is the party that actually settles on-chain. These payments are instrumentation: they test whether a route answers when paid, and the answer's content is graded by a published rule.","payer":"0x2034A2547C0C53278B8F2fB1Bc7DCC3b15c259A6 on Base mainnet. Any operator, grader or analyst should exclude payments from this address from demand statistics — the same exclusion probe402 applies to graders that pay it (see `gate_exclusions` and `demand_exclusions` on the method page).","which":[{"endpoint_id":"ep_ca7d9ef791396835","host":"api.400860.xyz","why":"ADR-055 §6.4 settle test, SELECT v1 (docs/research/2026-08-27-settle-protocol.md, selected 2026-08-27): this endpoint publishes, in its own 402 challenge, a multi-facilitator router pool with per-facilitator status. Paying it checks whether an advertised facilitator is the party that actually settles on-chain — per-endpoint counts over dated settlements, nothing about any other endpoint and nothing about the convention.","first_paid_at":null}],"which_says":"A decision record, appended per campaign and never edited — `first_paid_at` is null while an endpoint is selected and not yet paid, and is filled in when its campaign closes. The list changes BEFORE a payment, never after.","never":"The collector cannot pay (see `cannot_pay`). The paying tool refuses to move money without a recorded reason, refuses endpoints probe402 operates, facilitators, named graders, and any endpoint whose paid action has effects beyond returning data."}},"what_we_do_not_do":["We do not report whether a paid call delivered what it promised. Every reading on this surface comes from the collector, and the collector cannot pay at all, so nothing here rests on a delivery we bought.","We do not attribute a failure to a facilitator. That is not built, and we will not imply it is.","We do not accept payment, sponsorship or listing fees from any endpoint or operator we grade."]}