One badge family, five levels and a top tier, each in a metal people already rank: Steel, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, then Black platinum. Every level adds a proof the one below can’t give. None of them says “certified”.
Each badge answers two questions in everyday words: who checked it, and how often. The metal answers the third: how high is this. The bars repeat the level for anyone who can’t tell colours apart.
Shows you care. But it is your own word and anyone can paste it, so visitors give it less weight.
Business gives the same badge to every app your team ships.
Covers more of your app. Still your own word, so it stays bronze, below the metals SIGSHIP checks itself.
The first badge we stand behind. It cannot go stale or be copied, because we draw it.
Agency shows it on client apps as “via your studio”.
The streak grows every day you stay clean. Time is the proof nobody can fake. sigship.dev itself carries this badge: the check runs on every change to the site.
The answer to “did an expert actually look?” A person with a protocol, not only a scanner. Nobody holds this badge yet, including us.
A SIGSHIP expert engineer reviewed the code and SIGSHIP re-checks it every time the code changes. Any Team or Agency plan plus an expert review in the last 12 months. The black platinum finish is reserved for this, so it stays rare. Nobody holds it yet.
Badges are never sold on their own. Each one comes with the plan or review above it, and moves up when you do.
The metal climbs, and the word and the bars climb with it. Every badge ends in its own ID and links to its record. It reads on a light site and a dark one.
| What each badge proves | Self-checkedFree | Deep self-checkPro · Business | Checked dailySolo | Live-checkedTeam · Agency | Expert-reviewedExpert review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A unique ID that links back to its record on sigship.dev | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| You ran the 17 core checks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pro pack checks | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SIGSHIP re-runs the check itself | — | — | Nightly | Every change | At review |
| Date drawn on the badge | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | Review date |
| Turns off by itself on a failed check | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Clean-days streak | — | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Your own public page | ID record | ID record | Verification page | Page + history | Review report |
| A SIGSHIP expert engineer reviews the code | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Signed with name and date | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
The Self-checked badge comes with the free check, today. Type your site’s address, copy the code, and paste it into your footer. The badge carries your site’s own ID and links to its record on sigship.dev. The live badges arrive with Cloud and are drawn by sigship.dev.
Badge ID SG-S-P35GZZAnyone can open a badge’s record at sigship.dev/verify and see what it means and who checked. A badge means the owner checked before launching, or that SIGSHIP or an expert did, as the level says. It isn’t a security certificate, and the record says so. What an expert review covers is written down in the review protocol, and the incident rule says what happens if a badge fails you.