FAQ 5 min read

What “Not yet scored” means — and how a peptide vendor gets a score

Most vendors on PepAssure show no score. That is the rule working, not a gap: a vendor is scored only when an independent lab result exists. Here is exactly what counts, what doesn't, and how a score appears.

PepAssure team

October 22, 2026

The short version

PepAssure does not rate a vendor it has no evidence on. If a vendor's page says Not yet scored, it means we hold no independent lab result for that vendor, so we publish no number and the vendor is left out of the ranked list. Nothing about the vendor's reputation, size or marketing changes that. Only evidence does.

Every competitor list we have looked at ranks a "top 10" with no test behind it. We would rather show you an honest blank than a confident guess.

What counts as evidence

The PVS methodology accepts two classes of lab evidence, at two different weights:

•Independent (full weight). A sample bought anonymously by a third party and tested by a lab that publishes the result — today that means Finnrick or Janoshik. The vendor did not choose the sample and could not choose the result.
•Vendor-submitted (half weight, capped). A certificate of analysis from a recognized lab, uploaded by the vendor or found in a lab's public index, where a member of our team has read the purity figure off the document itself. A vendor with only this class of evidence is capped at 85 on the two lab pillars, because the vendor picked what to send.

A lab is recognized under one rule: it runs a public certificate lookup that anyone holding a report can use to confirm the document is the lab's. No public lookup, no recognition — a PDF nobody can verify is not evidence.

What does not count

•A purity number typed into a form.
•A vendor's own published CoA when the lab has no public lookup.
•Reddit threads, Trustpilot stars, Telegram recommendations. Community sentiment is a pillar in the score, but it never creates a score on its own.
•Claiming the listing, paying for tooling, or asking. Nothing a vendor pays for moves a number.

How a vendor goes from “Not yet scored” to a score

•A Finnrick or Janoshik result lands. We index Finnrick's public pages nightly; Janoshik results are imported as they become available. The night a first independent result appears, the vendor is scored and enters the rankings.
•A recognized-lab certificate is confirmed. Vendors can upload CoAs from their dashboard, and we also read certificates directly from labs that publish an index. Once a team member confirms the purity figure, the result scores at half weight.
•Scores are recomputed every night. Each run recalculates every scored vendor from the rows on file, so a score is never a snapshot someone typed in months ago. Every vendor page shows the date its number was computed.

Scores can also move down. A failed result, a confirmed fake certificate, or an entry on our Enforcement & Shutdown Watch lowers or removes a score the same night.

What “Not yet scored” tells a buyer

It does not mean the vendor is bad. It means nobody has independently tested them, and we will not pretend otherwise. Each unscored page still shows what we do know: whether the vendor is claimed, any regulatory record, any reviews on file, and what would change the status. If you are deciding between a scored vendor and an unscored one, the honest difference is that one has been tested and one has not.

For vendors

If you run a vendor and want a score, the fastest route is independent: submit to Finnrick's free testing programme or commission a Janoshik test and let the result publish. The second route is to claim your listing and upload certificates from a recognized lab. Either way the result is public and we never remove a published test at a vendor's request. Think something on your page is wrong? Use corrections.