Why We’re Opening This Alpha
Over the past year, we’ve been building and refining RepuRate’s transaction flows, scoring engine, and core safety mechanisms. Internal testing validated the fundamentals, but the next step is controlled exposure to people who know how to stress systems. This Alpha is intentionally designed to surface edge cases, unexpected behavior, and failure modes before real users and real money are involved.
Who’s Included in This Alpha Phase
This initial Alpha is not a live user cohort. It consists of a hand-selected group of technically savvy participants—builders, analysts, marketplace power users, and people who enjoy breaking software to see how it responds.
These participants are not using RepuRate for real transactions. Instead, they are helping us pressure-test assumptions, flows, and safeguards using simulated (fake) transactions designed to mimic real-world scenarios.
Participants in this phase include:
Technically inclined testers and early builders
Marketplace-savvy users familiar with fraud and trust gaps
Power users who understand edge cases and adversarial behavior
People comfortable experimenting, poking holes, and giving direct feedback
Individuals who enjoy finding where systems fail—and why
How This Alpha Works
All Alpha activity uses simulated transactions only. No real money, goods, or services are exchanged. The goal is not adoption—it’s validation.
During this phase, we’re deliberately encouraging participants to:
Push workflows beyond normal usage
Attempt ambiguous, incomplete, or inconsistent proof uploads
Stress the two-way rating and verification logic
Explore how reputation signals behave under imperfect conditions
Identify confusion, friction, or unintended outcomes
What We’re Measuring During This Phase
This Alpha focuses on system resilience and clarity, including:
How quickly testers understand and complete simulated flows
Where users hesitate, misinterpret, or attempt to bypass steps
The usefulness and clarity of proof and verification signals
How the scoring logic behaves under edge and adversarial cases
Whether trust signals remain interpretable when inputs are imperfect
What Comes Next
Insights from this simulated Alpha will directly inform the next phase, where RepuRate introduces limited live usage with real transactions. Before that happens, we want high confidence that the system behaves predictably, communicates clearly, and resists misuse.
By the time we reach Beta, RepuRate will have already survived intentional stress, misuse, and experimentation—so that real users can rely on it with confidence.
Thank you to everyone participating in this early Alpha. Your willingness to break things is exactly what helps us build a reputation system that holds up in the real world.