What is a Statement?
Every day, billions of transactions take place around the world.
Behind every transaction is a person, a business and an experience. Until now, these have largely existed separately.
Statement brings them together.
Connecting a verified transaction to the stories you share, creating a layer of proof and building trust in your experiences.
Anatomy of a
Statement
At its core, a Statement is made up of six key layers of information.
1. A real person
Every Statement starts with a real person, with an identity, profile and history. Over time, their Statements build a picture of where they go, what they buy and what they value.
2. A verified transaction
At the centre of every Statement is a real transaction. Where available, Statement verifies the merchant, amount, date and financial institution; creating a trusted proof layer.
3. A business
Every transaction connects a person to a business. A Statement makes that connection visible; linking real customers with the businesses they actually visited, bought from or stayed with.
4. The person's expression
A transaction tells us what happened. The person tells us what it meant. Statement Makers can add words, photos, video and sentiment; recommending, celebrating, criticising or simply sharing.
5. The location
Where something happened adds context. Location can make Statements more useful for discovery; turning a restaurant transaction into a place visited, a hotel into somewhere stayed, or a coffee into somewhere to discover.
6. The categories
Statements are organised across categories; from food and travel to fashion, entertainment and more. Categories help make the Statement network easier to explore and discover around the things people care about.
Why this matters
Why Statement exists
The internet has a growing proof problem. Anyone can write a review, and with AI making convincing content easier to create, it's harder than ever to know what actually happened.
Statement offers something different: a real, verified, transaction; giving the experience a foundation of proof you can trust.
More than just a receipt
A transaction tells us what happened. You decide what it meant.
A Statement can be a recommendation, memory, discovery, complaint, story or flex; your experience, expressed in your own way, with the transaction behind it verified.
Creating connections
Every Statement connects your experiences with the people, places, businesses, and products around you.
As more people share, these individual stories become a network of real-world experiences and choices; all verified with Statement.
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