How We Check
Sole Brief exists so you can choose where to sell your feet pics with the facts in front of you, not a platform's marketing. Here is exactly where those facts come from, what our labels mean, and where our limits are.
Every figure on this site carries the source it came from and the date we checked it. A figure that can't show both can't be published here.
That rule is built into the database behind the site. It refuses to save a figure without its source and its date, whoever is typing.
Where our figures come from
Two kinds of source, both public, both cited directly.
We read each platform's own public pages the way you would see them before signing up, without logging in. For who runs a platform and how it's seen, we add public records. If nobody checked a figure at its source, it doesn't come in here.
The platform's own pages
Terms of service, pricing and fee pages, the help center and the policies.
Public records
Company registers, domain records, app store listings, and review site profiles named by site.
Secondhand numbers
Affiliate pages, "best sites" roundups, and news stories repeating a platform's own figure.
What every record covers
The same 44 questions for every platform, in five groups.
Money
What the platform takes from each sale and what it charges you to be there.
Payouts
When and how money reaches you, and who carries the risk when a buyer reverses a charge.
Safety
Who has to prove who they are, what happens to that proof, and how you get out or get your work back.
Who runs it
The company behind the platform, where it's registered and where it operates.
Policies
The documents it holds itself to, when they took effect, and how to reach a person.
A record isn't finished until all 44 have an answer, even when the honest answer is "the platform doesn't say."
What the labels mean
Every figure carries one, so you know how much weight it can bear.
A higher bar for money
Where a wrong number costs sellers the most.
Only what the platform's own published terms and pages say, or a public record. Fees, prices and payouts all follow this rule.
A promotional line, however confident. If a promo line is all there is, the record says so and shows no verified fee.
How often we check
The "Last checked" date on every record tells you when we last looked.
Every month
Every listed platform is re-checked on the 1st of the month.
When something changes
Sooner if a platform updates its terms or a conflict between its pages gets resolved.
If we miss one Review overdue
The record says so in plain view, before you read any figure. A stale number never passes as current.
What we don't do
Our limits matter as much as our figures.
No test payouts
We don't send real money through platforms, measure what sellers earn, or rate customer support.
No logging in
If a fact is only visible inside an account, it isn't on a record yet.
No earnings promises
We don't estimate what you'll make. A platform's own earnings figures are labeled as its claim.
No rankings or scores
We put the facts side by side and let you decide what matters for you.
Corrections, platforms and AI
How records change, and who can change them.
When we get it wrong
We fix it in public. A correction says what was wrong and how long it was up, and it's listed on What Changed with every other change.
If you run a platform
Send the desk the page and the sentence that shows a record is wrong. It gets the same checks as any source. Asking or paying never changes a record.
Software and AI
AI tools help us read long policy pages and draft records. A person checks every source and approves every record before it's published.
Questions about how we check, or think a record is wrong? Contact the desk. A sharp question is often how a record gets better.
