If your firm already sells technical due diligence, architecture reviews or engineering assessments, you are competing on the reputation of whoever shows up. An Authorized Partner licence puts a published standard, a scoring engine and a public register behind the same engagement.
The licence is not a reseller agreement for someone else's service. You deliver the audit, you own the client, you set your own price. What you license is the methodology, the tooling and the right to produce a result the register will accept.
You are asked to “take a look at the codebase” before a client commits to a build. Today that is unpaid pre-sales. As a partner it becomes a priced, scoped engagement that also qualifies the work behind it.
You sell CTO-as-a-service, technical due diligence or interim engineering leadership. Your differentiator is the individual. The licence gives you one that survives them leaving.
You assess targets before investment and portfolio companies after it. A licence lets you run both on one methodology, so a Q3 portfolio review is directly comparable to the diligence you ran at entry.
The standard is open, so anyone may apply it. The trademark is not. Only a partner may present an engagement as a TTR-2026 audit and carry the mark in proposals and reports.
Your client can take the result to TTR Verified and have it entered in the public register. An unlicensed assessment cannot be registered, whatever its quality.
The platform, the scoring engine, the evidence integrations and the MCP server, with unlimited concurrent audits. Additional seats are available per auditor.
TechPulse does not deliver audits. Inbound audit demand is routed to partners by region and by profile specialisation, at no commission.
Draft revisions of the standard, the weights and the BII set reach partners ahead of publication, with a comment period. You are never re-learning the standard in front of a client.
Your firm appears in the register with its ID, its certified auditors, its profile specialisations and the count of audits it has issued.
The register is worth exactly as much as the weakest partner in it. These conditions are the reason the mark carries weight, and they are not negotiable per applicant.
| Requirement | At application | Ongoing |
|---|---|---|
| Certified auditors on staff | 2 minimum | Maintained continuously; 30-day grace on departure |
| Professional indemnity cover | Certificate of insurance | Annual proof of renewal |
| Code of conduct | Signed by a company officer | Re-signed on each revision |
| Independence declaration | Disclosure of delivery relationships | Per engagement, before scoping |
| Reference assessment | One full audit reviewed by TechPulse | Not repeated unless standing lapses |
| Quality review | — | 10% of issued audits sampled annually |
The independence rule is the one that catches people. A partner may not assess a scope it also builds or operates, and may not sell remediation work into a scope it assessed in the same cycle. If your firm does both, the assessment goes to another partner. This is the same separation that applies to us, and it is why we no longer sell audits at all.
You set your own engagement prices. TechPulse charges an annual licence and a flat fee per audit registered against your ID. There is no revenue share and no commission on routed leads.
A boutique running one full assessment per month at its own list price of $12,000. Your prices, capacity and mix will differ - this shows the shape of the licence cost, not a revenue forecast.
Ten percent of issued audits are sampled each year. We re-read the evidence against the score, and where the evidence does not support it, the finding goes back to the partner with a remediation window.
Partners who consistently score above the reference range are as much of a problem as those who score below it. A register where everyone is Level B is a register nobody consults.
Suspension and withdrawal are published. An entry marked withdrawn stays in the register with its date and its reason, because removing it silently would be the same failure the standard exists to fix.
The first cohort's assessments calibrate the benchmark every later entry is measured against. Applications are reviewed in the order they arrive.