Showcase, not marketplace
VeraTrace exposes neither prices nor a cart on its public discovery surfaces, and intermediates no transaction. This is not a missing feature but a stance: the showcase is a showcase of proof, and putting a price on it would turn proof-based ranking into disguised commercial ranking.
What the blog says
- What the Price Doesn’t Say
Hayek (1945): price circulates knowledge that no one holds. But it says nothing about quality or path: nothing is missing from the price — what is missing is a price.