Service Discovery

Breaking free from centralized platforms that control visibility through advertising budgets and opaque algorithms.

Why Discoverability is Broken

Today, consumer discoverability of goods and services is controlled by centralized platforms that rely on advertising, opaque SEO algorithms, and now even sponsored AI results.

Wealth Concentration

Wealth is concentrated in a handful of dominant companies that control discovery algorithms.

Stifled Innovation

Startups and SMEs cannot compete with massive advertising budgets, limiting innovation.

Higher Prices

Intermediaries capture disproportionate value, forcing consumers to pay higher prices.

Current Discovery Model

Organizations

High-Budget Organizations

Enterprises, funded scale-ups

$$$ Ad Spend
Low-Budget Organizations

Startups, SMEs

$ Weak Ad Spend

Dominant Platforms

Advertising Platforms

Control discovery & ranking

High Visibility
Low/No Visibility

Wealth concentration at dominant platforms

Consumers

End Users

Pay higher prices due to ad cost pass-through

Find high-budget services easily

Rarely discover low-budget alternatives

Consumers pay higher prices to cover ad spend

For Small Organizations

Small budgets ⇒ little/no discoverability. Competing on ads is unsustainable.

For Consumers

Limited choice and higher prices due to platform intermediaries capturing value.

Service Discovery: Re-distribution of Wealth

Verana replaces the advertising monopoly with an open, decentralized, and verifiable trust system powered by verifiable credentials.

Any ecosystem can certify claims, service owners attach those credentials to their digital channels, and the Trust Resolver indexes the proofs automatically.

Ecosystems

Establish decentralized trust networks that specialize in certifying claims for specific industries or jurisdictions.

Credentials

Organizations and individuals obtain verifiable credentials they can attach to every service endpoint.

Auto-Indexing

Credentials are crawled, cryptographically verified, and added to the global directory of verifiable data.

Discovery

Services surface because of the claims they can prove—not because of who bought ads.

Economic Transformation

Verana shifts power away from centralized platforms toward a federated economy of ecosystems that compete on trust, authenticity, and credential quality.

Verana Discovery Model

Organizations

Any-budget organizations

Equal opportunity for discovery

Request credentialing
Register service & attach verifiable credentials

Ecosystems

Credential issuers

Issue verifiable credentials and sustain governance through issuer fees

Issuer fees fund the trust framework
Credentials flow to registered services

Trust Resolver

Directory & verification

Auto crawl, verify, and expose a public index of proven claims

Ingest credentials from services
Expose trust-based discovery results

Search by proven claims, not by ad budgets.

Consumers

End users

Query the resolver, evaluate proofs locally, and transact directly

Trust-based discovery
Find & engage the right service

Users pay providers directly—no hidden ad tax.

Key Benefits of the Verana Model

For Organizations

Equal discovery opportunities regardless of marketing budget.

Compete on credentialed trust and service quality, not ad spend.

Maintain direct relationships with customers without intermediaries.

Operate with a transparent, verifiable reputation system.

For Consumers

Lower prices without the advertising markup baked into services.

Discover quality offerings from organizations of any size.

Verify every claim with cryptographic proofs.

Escape algorithmic manipulation and dark advertising funnels.

Ready to Transform Discovery?

Join the movement toward fair, transparent, and trust-based service discovery.