Q1. What exactly is GCR?
GCR is an open digital public infrastructure that verifies corporate identity and status by connecting directly to official national registries. It returns cryptographically verifiable credentials — without storing, reselling, or rating corporate data.
Q2. If you don’t store data, what do you actually provide?
We provide verifiable proofs, not data. Each response is a cryptographically signed, time-stamped credential confirming that, at a precise moment, an official registry attested to a specific corporate status.
Q3. Why not just query official registries directly?
Because 200+ registries differ in format, language, API, and status codes. GCR provides a deterministic normalization layer that translates fragmented sources into a single international standard syntax.
Q4. How can verification be reliable if you retain no data?
Reliability comes from source signatures, trusted timestamps, and hash-based proofs — not from GCR holding data. This is precisely what makes GCR tamper-resistant and neutral.
Q5. How is GCR different from Dun & Bradstreet or other commercial databases?
Commercial databases sell cached copies and ratings, with risks of stale data, errors, pay-to-play bias, and geopolitical influence. GCR sells real-time official proofs, with no ratings, no rankings, and no bias.
Q6. Do you rate or score companies?
No. GCR does not rate credibility. It proves it — cryptographically, from the official source.
Q7. Are you an official government registry?
No. GCR is not a corporate registry. It is the verification layer on top of official registries — comparable to how DNS routes to authoritative servers, or how SSL/TLS proves identity without owning content.
Q8. What are the compliance advantages?
Zero data retention means no cross-border transfer liabilities, no data localization conflicts, and no deletion requests under GDPR or PIPL. Compliance is ensured by design, not by after-the-fact remediation.
Q9. Which technical standards do you follow?
W3C Verifiable Credentials v2.0, ISO/IEC 6523, and accredited TSA timestamps. Outputs are machine-readable by ERPs, customs systems, trade portals, and AI agents.
Q10. Why will MSMEs use GCR?
Traditional verification is unaffordable for most MSMEs. GCR provides a zero-cost, instantly verifiable “Global Registry Pass” tied directly to their home country’s official registry — enabling equal access to global supply chains.
Q11. Who governs GCR?
GCR is designed as an open, neutral, non-profit public infrastructure, governed transparently with multi-stakeholder participation.
Q12. What is the one-line case for GCR?
Cross-border trade has never lacked data — it has lacked verifiable trust in that data. GCR is that trust layer.