| {{badge:verified}} | Somebody ran it and watched it work, on that date, in a named place | Treat as fact for that date and that setup |
| {{badge:measured}} | Our own pipeline produced this number on a named workload | Treat as fact about our workload; yours will differ |
| {{badge:docs}} | Read in the vendor's documentation on that date; never executed by us | Check it against the vendor before relying on it — and tell us if it moved |
| {{badge:spec}} | A written specification for something that does not exist | Never plan around it. Future tense only |
| {{badge:unrun}} | Code we wrote and have never executed | Read it, then run it and find out. Expect it to be wrong somewhere |
| {{badge:projected}} | Arithmetic, with its workings shown | Re-do the arithmetic with your own numbers |