Nobody should grade their own homework. Not even us.

Every number that moves money on the internet was collected by someone. A scraper, a feed, a monitoring dashboard, an AI agent reading a page. And almost every one of those collectors has the same answer when you ask how you know the number is right: trust us, we collected it carefully.

That answer worked when data was cheap and decisions were human. It stops working the moment software spends money on data nobody re-checked. A price that moved after the scrape. A product page that says one thing in its structured data and another on the screen. A dataset where the rows quietly stopped matching their own source URLs. The collector cannot catch these, because the collector is the one being graded.

We think this is a missing role, not a missing feature: the referee. Independent web data verification means a party with no stake in the data's collection re-fetches the source and attests what it actually showed, in a form anyone can check without trusting the referee either. Signed verdicts. Verifiable offline. Timestamped. And honest about their own limits: when we cannot read a page, the answer is unverifiable, never a guess, because a referee who guesses is just another opinion.

We built ScrapeCheck to be that referee, and we hold ourselves to the rules the role demands. We verify pages a server can read, and we say so plainly. We attest what a page showed, never what it means; whether a price is a violation, a listing is fraud, or a dataset is worth buying stays your judgment, made on evidence you can independently check. We publish our methods before our numbers, and when our own instruments fail, we sign that too.

The web is filling with software that acts on data no human will ever look at. Somebody has to be the one who checked. That is the whole company.

Rick C.Fieldmode LLC