What "verified" means here
Behind every number sits a label — Verified, Pending, or Calculated. Here is exactly what each one promises, and what it does not.
Walk through any Franopolis brand page and you will see small labels attached to the numbers. They are the shortest way we know to answer two questions at once: where did this figure come from, and who checked it?
Verified
A verified figure comes from the franchisor's own published materials. Before it earns that label, two checks run on it. First, a machine pass locates the wording the figure was extracted from on the cited source page — if the quote is not actually on the page, the figure does not pass. Then a separate, stricter AI check compares the figure with the quoted wording on that page and confirms it, corrects it from the page, or rejects it. People step in when a reader reports an issue. Only after both checks does a number appear here without a caveat.
Machine checks are fast, but they confirm one narrow thing: that the quoted wording exists where we say it does. They do not judge context. That judgment is reserved for people, and it stays reserved.
Pending
Pending does not mean wrong. It means not yet confirmed — the value was captured, but the source pass or the separate check has not finished, or the value could not be confidently located on the source. Pending figures are withheld or clearly flagged. They never quietly graduate to verified because enough time passed.
Where an automated check fails, we treat the value as an unverified suggestion. It may be a misreading; it may be worse. Either way, it is not presented as fact until a person confirms it.
Calculated
Some things are not stated anywhere but can be derived honestly — a growth rate between two counted years, for example. Those are labeled Calculated, and the formula is shown. A calculation is transparent arithmetic on verified inputs. It is not new information about the business, and it is never dressed up as reported fact.
What this buys you
Confidence, of a specific kind: the number you are reading was written by the franchisor, located on its source page, and confirmed by a separate check against that wording — or we are telling you, plainly, that it was not.