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Prediction-Free

What "Prediction-Free" means

A structural commitment, not a compliance checkbox.

Most apps build a model of you. They watch what you click, infer what you're likely to do next, score how engaged you are, and use that model to steer what you see. The structural fact of being predicted is the problem — separate from whether your data leaks, separate from whether they show you ads.

The Prediction-Free badge says this app doesn't do that. It's a claim about how the product is built, auditable in the database schema and the source code. When this badge is shown, the following seven things are true:

  1. No behavioral prediction of the user. No propensity score, no engagement model, no next-best-action recommender, no churn predictor. Predictions about non-user entities (movies, weather, ballot outcomes, sports, stocks) are fine as long as every user sees the same prediction and no model of the user is involved.
  2. No user modeling beyond the session. Per-user state stops at functional preferences. No profile of your interests, beliefs, or behavior tendencies is stored.
  3. No ad targeting. No ads of any kind. Revenue model is subscription, B2B, or one-time purchase only.
  4. No third-party trackers. First-party self-hosted page-view counting is allowed when no third-party domain is contacted, no persistent cross-day visitor ID is stored, raw IP is never stored, and the privacy page discloses it.
  5. No PII handoff to LLM vendors. If the app uses an LLM, your PII does not leave Modelo Tech's infrastructure.
  6. Transparent retention. The privacy page lists every field collected and how to delete your data.
  7. No silent updates to the claim. If a feature is added that would break any of the above, the badge is removed before the feature ships.

What this badge does NOT claim

How to verify

The seven criteria above are checkable in the codebase. Modelo Tech runs the audit checklist before applying this badge to any app. If you believe an app showing this badge is violating one of the seven points, email [email protected].

Spec last updated: 2026-05-23.