/* the scoring lab behind smarterranking.com */

# PUBLISHER
  Trading as: Smarter Ranking
  Legal entity: Rubric Labs LLC
  Address: 1209 West 5th Street, Suite 410, Austin, TX 78703
  ISSN: 3089-7718
  Founded: 2022

# BYLINE CONVENTION
  Smarter Ranking publishes under one house byline — the Smarter Ranking
  scoring desk. Rankings are a team product; the publication, not an
  individual, stands behind every verdict. No personal author profiles.

# CHANNELS
  Tips: scores@smarterranking.com
  Corrections: revisions@smarterranking.com
  Rubric questions: rubric@smarterranking.com
  How we score: /scoring/
  Methodology: /methodology/
  Corrections log: /corrections/

# WHAT THIS SITE IS NOT
  - Not pay-to-play. No sponsored or affiliate-weighted rankings.
  - Not a black box. Every rank ships with its weighted rubric.
  - No RSS, no JSON feed. Sitemap only.

# STACK
  Astro · static · hand-built scoring components · Vercel