Find
Start cold from the homepage and locate a useful destination for a believable textile need.
Participant information · Study directory-core-v1
Help us find what still gets in the way.
Your invitation opensSelf-guided study
Complete three realistic tasks on your own device. Your results are kept separate from moderated evidence.
Invited to a facilitated session?Time15–25 minutes
Activities3 realistic tasks
IdentityNo name or email
ControlStop or withdraw
01 · What you are agreeing to
We test the directory. We do not test you.
Stitch Authority is measuring whether actual or likely users can find a relevant resource, compare two plausible routes, and understand the evidence and correction boundaries.
Compare
Judge two plausible resources using the visible scope, access, evidence, and limitations.
Challenge
Explain what a checked listing does not prove and locate the route for correcting it.
02 · Choose the closest track
Use the tasks that resemble your work.
You must be at least 18 and an actual or likely user of textile resources. Do not take the study if you built this site, live with someone who built it, or were coached on its intended navigation.
Makers
People who sew, mend, knit, crochet, weave, dye, or otherwise work with textiles for personal, teaching, or small-scale creative use.
Choose makersApparel production
People responsible for apparel product development, technical design, pattern work, sourcing, compliance, or production.
Selected — change if needed03 · Data, use, and withdrawal
The runner is deliberately data-poor.
The study can find navigation failures without building a profile about the person who found them.
What the runner sends
- An anonymous random session code
- Your chosen track, study mode, and study round
- Task identifier, outcome, one friction category, and elapsed time
- A withdrawal marker if you withdraw the session
It does not ask for or send your name, email, employer, business details, free-text response, audio, video, or screen recording. Do not use personal, client, or confidential data in the tasks.
How results are handled
Aggregate results may appear in the public validation ledger and change notes. Self-guided signals remain separate and cannot satisfy the moderated-session target.
Exported event data is retained through the active study round and scheduled for deletion within 180 days after its aggregate report. Ordinary hosting request logs may follow the host's separate retention controls.
You can stop without sending more task results, or withdraw the anonymous session from analysis in the runner. To withdraw later, keep the session code and use the withdrawal page. Because the runner collects no identity, the code is the only way to match a later request.
Positive consent happens next
Ready for the apparel-production tasks?
On the next screen, review the compact data summary and check the consent box yourself. Participation is voluntary. There is no pass, score, or preferred route.
Open the three-task runner →View the public ledger