External reviewer / open call
The seat is vacant—not implied.
Appointment requires informed consent, relevant expertise, and a published conflict review. Until then, the Index describes the safeguard as incomplete.
R / requirements
Authority of the reviewer
- R-01
Approve or reject the benchmark protocol lock before scored runs begin.
- R-02
Audit provenance, configurations, analysis artifacts, and deviations.
- R-03
Adjudicate evidence checks and corrections involving Minds.
- R-04
Publish a signed review statement, limitations, and any dissent.
Q / requirements
Minimum qualifications
- Q-01
Demonstrated expertise in survey methodology, statistics, computational social science, research ethics, or reproducibility.
- Q-02
Ability to review methods and artifacts rather than vendor positioning.
- Q-03
Willingness to disclose relevant employment, funding, investments, advisory roles, and commercial relationships.
Conflict window
Independence is evaluation-specific.
Applicants must disclose vendor employment, funding, advisory work, investment, or material commercial ties during the prior 24 months. A material conflict with Minds or an evaluated vendor disqualifies the reviewer from that evaluation.
Compensation
No outcome-contingent payment.
Any compensation must be fixed in advance, publicly disclosed, and never contingent on a score, conclusion, publication, or vendor outcome.
Express interest
Apply with a disclosure statement.
Include expertise, relevant publications or audits, availability, and all potential conflicts. The appointment and conflict record will be public.