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 opensFacilitated study
Continue only when the facilitator who invited you is present. They should observe quietly rather than teach the site.
Need the self-guided route?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.
Choose apparel production03 · 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.
Notes or recordings require separate consent.
The runner itself makes no recording and accepts no free text. A facilitator must explain any observers, notes, or recording separately before the session; declining those extras must not prevent use of this runner.
Positive consent happens next
Choose a track before starting.
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.
A facilitator must also attest that they are present and following the neutral protocol.
Choose a track above ↑View the public ledger