METHOD LABELS
Four labels, four different weights — always in plain sight.
PRODUCER-CONFIRMED
WEIGHT: Strongest
The producer ran the show.
The person who produced the event — took the financial risk, sold the tickets, managed the venue — confirmed the gig record through a bounded magic link. They saw the date and venue; they clicked confirm. This is the strongest method for live-draw claims.
TICKET EXPORT · REVIEWED
WEIGHT: Strong
Ticket sales data, reviewed by a human.
The artist or their representative exported a sales report from the ticketing platform (Eventim, Tikaway, or similar). A LOCK SHOW operator reviewed the document against the stated claim, and the date of that review is stamped on the claim.
PLATFORM DATA · REVIEWED
WEIGHT: Contextual — not draw evidence
Streaming or platform data, operator-reviewed.
Used for catalogue and reach claims only — never for live draw. Streaming figures appear as secondary context on a Passport, never as audience-draw evidence. The platform, the metric, and the review date are all displayed.
SELF-REPORTED
WEIGHT: Weakest — always labelled if published
The artist said so — and we say so too.
The artist logged the gig, but no external party has confirmed it yet. It always lives on the private Artist Radar. If the artist chooses to publish it, it can appear on the public Passport — but only under the explicit SELF-REPORTED label, never dressed up as verified.
CLAIM PIPELINE
How a claim earns its place on a Passport.
DISCOVER
A gig is logged.
The artist adds a gig to their Artist Radar — date, venue, estimated audience. The claim enters the system as self-reported.
CONFIRM
A producer verifies.
LOCK SHOW generates a unique, bounded magic link for that gig. The artist sends it to the producer; the producer clicks, sees the record, and confirms. The method label upgrades to PRODUCER-CONFIRMED.
METHOD-LABEL
The method is stamped.
The claim now carries its full label: what was verified, by whom, through which method, and when the review was completed. The label is not fine print — it is the claim.
ARTIST APPROVES
The artist controls publication.
Nothing crosses to the public Passport without the artist's explicit approval. Every claim waits in the private Radar until the artist decides to publish it.
PUBLISH
The claim appears on the Passport — if eligible.
Only claims that meet the firewall rules appear publicly: band range (not an exact figure), method visible, date stamped, artist-approved. A claim that fails any rule is left off the public surface entirely.
THE FIREWALL
What is always true about every public claim.
These rules are not guidelines — they are structural. A claim that breaks any one of them is simply never published.
Audience draw is always expressed as a band (e.g. 70–150) — never an exact count.
Every public claim shows its method label. "Verified" never stands alone.
Every claim shows a date and geographic area. Evidence from 2023 ≠ evidence from 2026.
Self-reported data appears only with an explicit SELF-REPORTED label — never disguised as verified.
Streaming figures appear as secondary context only — never as draw evidence.
LOCK SHOW publishes no score, ranking, percentile, prediction, or guarantee.
A domain with no supported, verified claim is removed from the Passport entirely — never shown as "developing" or "missing".
And what LOCK SHOW will never do.
Predict future performance
Guarantee a booking
Score or rank artists
Compare artists to each other
Publish unconfirmed claims
Store data before consent
See it in practice.
The demo Passport shows a real claim pipeline — method labels, dates, bands, all visible.