Reader credentials

Every read you complete for another writer builds a track record. Reader credentials turn that record into something you can show: how much you have read, what kind, and the quality tier you have earned, broken out by the four kinds of reading on Inkbreaker.

This matters most when you read for a living, or want to. You can point a prospective client at your credentials as proof before they hire you for paid beta or sensitivity work.

The four lanes

Your credentials are kept separately for each kind of reading, so a reader who is trusted for sensitivity work and a reader who is trusted for line-level critique each show what they are actually trusted for:

• Beta reads: full-manuscript reads (Beta readers)
• Sensitivity reads: reads from lived experience in a specific area (Sensitivity reads)
• Peer feedback: matched passage-level reads (Peer feedback)
• Chapter critiques: rubric-guided reads inside a chapter (Chapter critique)

Each lane shows your count of completed reads and, once you have enough rated ones, a tier.

The tiers

A tier is earned from the ratings the writers you read for left on your feedback. There are three:

• Verified: 3 or more rated reads in that lane, held to a good rating.
• Trusted: 10 or more rated reads, held to a high rating.
• Distinguished: 25 or more rated reads, held to an exceptional rating.

Tiers are earned per lane and reflect current standing. If your ratings slip, a tier comes back down until you earn it again. We never show the raw numeric ratings to anyone, including you. The tier is the signal, so one tough writer cannot publish your average, and one easy writer cannot inflate it. Ratings that look like retaliation are set aside before a tier is figured.

A lane with completed reads but fewer than three rated ones shows its count with no tier yet. Keep reading and the tier follows.

Where they show

Your credentials appear on your profile, under your name, for anyone who visits. They also have their own page at /readers/your-username. That page is clean and needs no login, so you can paste the link into a pitch, a freelance listing, or an email.

Showing your credentials is free. So is the public page.

The certificate

From your credential page you can download a certificate: a plain document plus a machine-readable record, both signed with a fingerprint and a link back to your live page. Hand it to a client as proof. They can open your public page and confirm the numbers match, and the fingerprint confirms the file has not been edited.

Downloading the certificate is a Pro feature. Everything else about credentials is free.

How this relates to the Trusted Reader badge

The Trusted Reader badge is a single, overall mark across all your reading. Reader credentials are the detailed, per-lane version of the same track record. You can have both. The badge is the quick signal in a byline; the credentials are the full picture a client wants before they commission you.