The obvious objection
Thirty percent is a lot.
It is, and it is more than the marketplaces you are already selling on take. Those charge around 20%, out of your side only. We are not going to argue that number down or dress ours up, so here is the comparison you would run anyway — on what each side actually does, drawn from published terms rather than opinion.
Where this is sold todaycompiled-binary marketplaces
Heresix steps, then a published record
what gets analysed
A compiled binary. The platform never receives the source, so it cannot examine it.
Your source, read against the scope you declared in writing. Compiled delivery to buyers is still your choice.
who decides
The pre-test. Passing it ends the process.
A person, on every submission, from the report and whatever the analysis flagged — and they can stop a listing the machine was happy with.
the test
An automated pre-test: a formal check for known programming errors, then a run on historical data.
Simulation on periods we pick and hold back from you, then stress: gaps, spreads, fee changes, outages.
who picks the settings
The seller. Period, costs and parameters come from the submission.
We do. Fees, spread, slippage and funding are counted in, not optional.
what the buyer reads
Your description and your figures.
A certificate with our findings and our name on it — including the four things the check did not cover.
at version 1.5
The same automated pre-test, again.
Back through all six steps before it reaches a single buyer.
out of your side
~20%
15%
onto the buyer’s side
—
15%
Read as a fee, ours is ten points worse. Read as what it buys, the ten points are the difference between a shelf where every product is a screenshot and a shelf where every product has been verified independently of its creator. And it is €15, once, per licence sold — not per month, not per listing, not per submission, and nothing at all when a build fails.
The part we cannot prove yet. Your product will list 15% above the same product on a marketplace that does not check anything. We are betting that a checked product converts better when it sits next to unchecked competition, and that the buyers who pay for software rather than pirate it are exactly the ones who read a certificate. That is a reasoned bet, not a measured result: the marketplace has no sales history, so anyone quoting you a conversion number today — us included — would be making it up. You are pricing higher into a market that has not been tested. Decide with that in front of you.
And if the real objection is the review itself — that you do not want anyone outside reading your source, at any price — that one we cannot solve for you, and we are not going to try. The check is the product. Sell where a compiled binary is enough, and treat this page as a thing to come back to if that stops working.