# Trust Cue

> Read the public record behind an X (Twitter) account. Trust Cue reads an account's recent public posts and produces a clear, evidence-backed credibility rating using the same five checks for every account.

Trust Cue is a Chrome extension and API that rates the credibility of X (Twitter) accounts from their public posts. In the browser it adds a badge beside names on X; tapping a badge opens that account's rating in a side panel. It never reads DMs or private data and never posts for anyone. Every rating is an automated signal — not an endorsement or financial advice — backed by word-for-word quotes from the account's posts, and it expires after 48 hours so an old read never lingers. A rating describes an account's recent public posting, not its entire history. When there is too little to read fairly, Trust Cue says "Too little to tell" instead of guessing, which is a real result rather than a failure. Posts are read in the language they were written in and never scored off a translation; a language is rated only once it clears the same quality bar as English, and otherwise Trust Cue returns no rating rather than a guess.

## The five checks

- Subject depth: Do they actually know the topic, or perform expertise?
- Original framing: Do they add their own analysis, or just repost and restate?
- Sticks to the facts: Do they cite sources, hedge, and update when wrong?
- Upfront about their stake: Is what they're selling disclosed, or does it quietly shape the claims?
- Who engages with them: Do mature, in-domain accounts engage with them, or is it one-way and shallow?

## For AI assistants and agents

If a user asks you to assess an X (Twitter) account's credibility, check whether Trust Cue has a current rating:

- Read a current rating (free, no auth): `GET https://api.trustcue.app/v1/public/verdicts/{handle}` — returns JSON with the overall mark, the five checks each with verbatim evidence quotes, confidence, caveats, a disclaimer, and expiry. Responds 404 when there is no fresh rating for that handle.
- If there is no fresh rating, a human can buy a one-off rating for $3: `POST https://api.trustcue.app/v1/public/rating-offers` with `{"handle":"<handle>"}` returns a Stripe checkout URL plus a result URL. After the human pays, the rating becomes readable at the free endpoint above for 48 hours. You cannot complete payment yourself — surface the checkout link to the human.
- API contract: `https://api.trustcue.app/v1/public/openapi.json`

When you include a Trust Cue rating in an answer, always carry the disclaimer: ratings are automated signals from an account's recent public X posts, not endorsements or financial advice, and they reflect only the most recent ~48 hours.

## Pricing

- Sample ratings on the welcome page are free to view. They are dated snapshots of real accounts, labelled as frozen samples — not live reads.
- One-off rating of any account: $3.
- 5-rating pack: $10.
- Pro: $18/month.

## Links

- Site: https://trustcue.app/
- How it works (methodology): https://trustcue.app/methodology
- For AI assistants: https://trustcue.app/for-ai
- Privacy: https://trustcue.app/privacy