What we will not do.
- Accept paid placement in the landscape document, vendor profiles, or any DCRI research.
- Accept vendor sponsorship of specific research findings or specific vendor profiles.
- Accept compensation in exchange for changes to a vendor profile.
- Give vendors pre-publication review of their profiles or veto rights over research.
If any of these change, the change will be announced on this page and dated.
How we fund ourselves.
DCRI is currently self-funded by its founder. We have no outside investors and no commercial relationships with any vendor named in our research as of May 2026.
The founder's professional history is publicly available on LinkedIn. Specific commercial or advisory relationships between the founder and any party named in DCRI research are disclosed at the point of citation.
The institute's only current commercial product is the Clean Room Professional™ (CRP™) certification, a practitioner-training program. If the institute or the founder begins to operate any additional commercial entity within the institute's scope, that fact will be disclosed on this page before the relevant research is published, and the conflict-of-interest policy governing the separation will be published here as well.
Any future funding source — underwriting, membership, additional commercial programs, or otherwise — will be named on this page before research is published under it.
How vendors are evaluated.
Vendor profiles draw on the following inputs, in order of weight:
- Publicly verifiable evidence — company documentation, customer case studies with named clients, M&A disclosures, regulatory filings, standards-body publications.
- Practitioner references — operators who have run the vendor's product in production.
- Vendor briefings — accepted as one input, not the primary source.
We disclose any commercial relationship between DCRI and a named party at the point of citation.
What causes a profile to change.
Vendor profiles are reviewed on a quarterly cadence. Interim updates happen when:
- Material change to ownership or parent control.
- Material change to pricing model or commercial terms.
- Material change to neutrality posture (for example, acquisition by an interested party).
- Material new evidence — independent benchmarks, customer references, regulatory action.
- Documented factual inaccuracy in the existing profile.
Every update is dated and logged in the profile.
How to flag an inaccuracy.
Email info@dcrinstitute.org. We acknowledge within five business days and publish a response or correction within thirty.
Last updated: May 2026