A CV is a claim. A portfolio can be copied. A five-star rating often says more about one transaction, on one platform, on one day, than it does about the person who did the work.
For anyone whose reputation is attached to a recognisable employer, this barely registers. For everyone else — freelancers, contractors, tradespeople, anyone who works job to job — it is a genuine and recurring cost. You do the work, the work is good, and then you start again from zero the moment you move to a different platform. The proof stayed behind, because it was never really yours.
The interesting question is not how to build a better rating system. It is who the record belongs to. If a job was genuinely completed, both the person who did it and the business who asked for it already know. Both could say so. And the resulting record could sit with the worker rather than with whichever marketplace happened to broker the introduction.
That is the idea Vero is exploring: work that both sides sign off on, producing proof the worker owns and can take with them. Two-sided confirmation is doing the real work there — a record only means something if the other party had to agree to it too.
This is an exploration, not a product announcement. There is no escrow, no payments, no dispute process and no public profile. What exists is a question worth taking seriously, and a conviction that proof should belong to the person who earned it.