How verification works
A record is built from proof, not from a profile.
A speaker joins SpeakerPacket and builds a packet. Then the engagements go on the record one at a time, and each one has to be backed by something other than the speaker's say-so. What follows is how an engagement earns its place, and what the words on a record mean.
The four ways in
Documentary evidence
The speaker submits the paper: the signed contract, the final invoice, the event program with their name in it. Documents are evidence. They start the file.
Counterparty confirmation
The planner or bureau who booked the engagement confirms it happened, with one tap from a link sent to them. No account for the confirmer. No forms. The person who paid for the talk says the talk happened.
Bureau roster verification
A bureau verifies its own roster in batches. The bureau already knows which of its speakers stood on which stages, so its confirmation carries weight across every speaker it represents.
Anchor engagements
One engagement with strong proof anchors the record. Confirmed history around it makes the rest of the file easier to check, because the pattern of a real career is hard to fake one event at a time.
No single voice verifies. A speaker's own claim, on its own, is listed as the speaker's claim until evidence or a counterparty backs it.
What you see on a record
Confirmed engagements carry proof or a counterparty's word. They count toward the verified total.
Listed engagements are on the record as the speaker reported them, still waiting on proof or confirmation. They are labeled listed, in plain sight. Listing is not a verdict against anyone. It is the record being honest about what it has and has not checked yet.
The verified audience count works the same way. A room size counts when it comes from the contract or from the planner who confirmed the actual headcount. A number the speaker typed in by hand never enters the verified totals.
The statuses
A record is one of these, and the public page shows which:
- Active. The membership is current and the record stands.
- Pending. Verification is in process. Some engagements are confirmed, others are still being checked.
- Lapsed. The membership ended. The record shows as lapsed, in the open.
- Revoked. The status was pulled. A revocation shows publicly, with the record still visible, so anyone who relied on it can see that it changed.
There are no grades between these. No stars, no scores, no rankings, no silver or gold version of true. An engagement happened and was proven, or it has not been proven yet.
What money cannot do
A speaker pays for a SpeakerPacket membership: the tools, the packet, the record, and the work of checking. Money buys membership, tools, and speed. Money never buys the verdict. Paying more does not confirm an engagement faster into existence, does not raise a count, and does not soften a revocation.
The founder is held to this first. Kenyon Salo is an active paying member, same as everyone else, and he is verified the same way as anybody else. His engagements were verified from contracts, invoices, and the bureaus and planners who booked him, the same as everyone who follows.
When something is wrong
Any engagement can be disputed through its record. If proof surfaces that an engagement did not happen as listed, the engagement comes off the confirmed count while it is reviewed, and the result shows on the record. The record is allowed to change. That is what makes it worth checking today instead of trusting a screenshot from last year.
SpeakerPacket is where a speaker builds it. SP Verified is how the world checks it.