MERCURYINDEPENDENT DIGITAL REVIEWS Our standard
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How we score
digital services.

Our framework turns promises into observable decisions: time, cost, reliability, support and the friction of leaving.

8 MIN READEDITORIAL STANDARD

A service review is not a feature inventory. It is a record of what happened when we tried to complete the job the provider sells.

We begin with a decision profile

Team size, current stack, budget window and tolerance for setup determine which trade-offs matter. A tool can be excellent and still be the wrong recommendation.

“The score is a route into the evidence, never a substitute for it.”

Then we test the hand-offs

We look at setup, import, permissions, daily use, support and cancellation. Where testing access is limited, we say so and lower the confidence attached to the verdict.

THE FIVE SIGNALSFit · Cost · Reliability · Support · Exit