3PL Signals exists to give vendors a truthful picture of the operators they sell to. The rules below are the product.
Public company websites (team, about, locations, news and careers pages), company press releases, trade-press feeds and SEC filings (used as leads and confirmed against the company's own announcement) and public vendor directories whose terms permit reuse. We do not scrape sources whose terms prohibit robots or commercial reuse, we do not buy lists, and we do not infer facts that are not stated.
Verification means source-linked, automated extraction — not human review. An automated reader (an AI agent) fetches the company's own pages, records what they state and leaves blank what they do not; pages that look wrong (for example web-template team pages with placeholder names) are re-read and the doubtful field is blanked. No person reads every row. Each fact family — leadership title, footprint, technology, locations, services, certifications, signals — carries the URL it was read from and the date of the fetch. Limits: the reader can miss content rendered only by JavaScript, images or PDFs, so a blank means "not observed on the fetched pages", not "the company has none"; open the source link to check any fact. Records are re-verified monthly; a record whose source no longer supports a fact loses that fact rather than keeping a stale value.
| Signal observed on the company's own site | Points |
|---|---|
| Operations leadership named on the company site (title published) | 2 |
| WMS or operating technology named | 1 |
| Footprint (square footage) disclosed | 1 |
| Multiple locations listed | 1 |
| Certifications or compliance stated | 1 |
A = 5–6 · B = 4 · C = 3 · D = 0–2. The grade is a transparency rubric: it records what an operator discloses publicly, which in our experience correlates with how ready that operator is for a serious vendor conversation. It is never a statement about an operator's quality or competence, and we word every grade as an observation.
Every record also carries a 0–10 disclosure score with the page each point rests on: operations leadership title published on the company's own site (2 points, +1 when the record was verified within 90 days) · WMS or operating technology named (1) · footprint in square feet (1) · addresses or locations stated (1) · certifications or compliance (1) · integrations or EDI (1) · channels or verticals served (1) · pricing or minimum volume (1). The last three are read from the text the company publishes; a 0 there means "not stated on the pages we read". With the score come fit tags (channel, vertical, storage, regulatory, value-added, size tier, technology, geography, ownership — each "not_stated" when the site does not say), external-validation flags (listed in a public vendor directory: yes/no; industry-association checks marked not_checked until run) and a letter equivalent (A ≥ 8, B 6–7, C 4–5, D ≤ 3). The letter shown on operator pages and in the sample table is still the v1 rubric above so that the two stay comparable while the score is new; the CSV carries both. Neither is a judgment of an operator's quality — both record what it discloses.
In build. The Signals plan is designed to deliver, weekly: operations-leadership changes, new clients announced, new buildings or expansions, technology changes, new certifications. Each signal carries its source and date; we publish nothing we cannot link to. Until the weekly feed runs, the Signals plan is trial by request and no card is taken.
Any subscriber who finds a wrong record gets a correction or an account credit within five business days. Any person or company listed can request a correction or removal on the removal page; we act within five business days and confirm by email.
No personal names anywhere in the product: records carry company facts, the operations leadership title as published by the employer, and the link to the employer's own page. No email addresses or phone numbers. No inferred contact details. No data about the employees of the vendors who subscribe.