The Modern Experiences Ethos

As of 2025, technology and security standards have advanced dramatically — yet most digital consumer experiences still lag behind in delivering secure, seamless, and transparent interactions.

The Modern Experiences Ethos defines what we believe modern digital experiences should provide as of 2025 and beyond, as well as how TrustLytics helps to accomplish that through transparency.

We built this ethos — and TrustLytics — to serve two purposes:

Provide education, insights, and transparency to consumers about practices of businesses they engage with.

Guide businesses on what they can do to earn trust, reduce friction, and strengthen customer retention.

The Ethos spans what we measure today, what’s in our roadmap, and what we're still exploring for measurability — capturing the full vision of digital-trust experiences we aim to quantify.


How We Act on This
  1. Define — Translate principles into measurable signals.
  2. Score — Deliver clear, defensible metrics business owners can comprehend.
  3. Guide — Provide prioritized, actionable recommendations aligned to our ethos.
  4. Evolve — Expand depth and context while staying anchored to what truly matters.
1. Identity — Stop Managing Passwords
Actively Measured

Passwords are the weakest link in digital experiences and must go extinct.
They’ve been stolen, reused, and exploited for decades. The future of trust is passwordless.


Customers should be able to log in using trusted providers (Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc.) without creating yet another password. Delegating identity not only improves security but also builds trust through familiarity and convenience.

Our stance: If your business is storing customer passwords, you’re holding a liability you don’t need — and your customers don’t want.

2. Payments — Accept What Customers Already Trust
Actively Measured

Asking for direct card or bank account information introduces friction and hesitation.


Customers trust certain payment providers with their financial details — Apple Pay, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Google, etc.. The more you match your customers’ preferred payment methods, the more likely they are to complete a transaction.

Our stance: Meet customers where they already pay. Choice in payment builds trust and removes purchase barriers.

3. Security — Protect Transactions and Data
Actively Measured

Modern digital trust begins at the connection itself. A customer’s browser handshake with your site determines whether their information is exchanged safely — or exposed to interception and tampering.


TrustLytics analyzes each site’s encryption, certificate validity, and redirect behavior to ensure transactions and sign-ins happen over strong, modern TLS configurations. Weak ciphers, outdated protocols, or missing redirects silently compromise user safety — even if no breach has occurred.

These checks don’t just verify compliance; they reflect whether your business is aligned with current web-security standards that protect customers without them needing to ask.

Our stance: Security isn’t abstract — it’s measurable. Every secure handshake builds trust long before a customer clicks “Pay.”

4. Transparency — Clarity Builds Confidence
Planned in 2026

Most privacy policies and terms of service are written for compliance, not clarity. They often bury critical details about data sharing, retention, and partner access behind pages of legal text no customer will ever read.


TrustLytics will use AI to analyze and summarize these disclosures — highlighting what truly matters: who can access your data, where it goes, and whether those terms respect user trust.

Transparency shouldn’t be an audit exercise; it’s a trust signal. When businesses make their data practices clear and comprehensible, they show integrity and earn loyalty.

Our stance: Every company deserves the right to set terms — and every customer deserves the right to fully comprehend them.

5. Self-Service Empowerment
Evaluating Measurability

Customers want to act without calling support — whether it’s updating billing info, managing subscriptions, or accessing order history. Every missing self-service option increases support costs and frustration.


Customers expect autonomy. Self-service capability is a win for both businesses and customers, saving time and strengthening confidence on both sides. Every missing self-service option creates friction, drives up support costs, and quietly erodes retention.

Our stance: If a customer can’t solve a simple need on their own, expect them to find alternatives.

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