Vendor Verify
Verifies a vendor's stored data against their live website — pricing, Revenue/ROS integration, PAYE Modernisation, Irish bank feeds, GDPR data residency, Irish support and free trial availability.
Entry verified April 21, 2026
The short answer
Directory data rots faster than almost any content. This skill reads the stored JSON, fetches the vendor's referral_url plus their pricing, features and compliance pages, compares each field, and reports discrepancies as field / stored value / website value.
When to use it
Quarterly across the top-ranked vendor pages. Also before publishing a "best of" listicle, where one stale price or missing compliance claim undermines the whole piece.
Setup
- 1
Save the file as ~/.claude/commands/verify.md; invoke with the vendor slug, e.g. /verify xero-ireland.
- 2
Skill reads src/data/vendors/[slug].json, pulls the referral_url, and fetches the vendor's pricing, features and compliance pages.
- 3
Compares pricing_from, pricing_model, revenue_integration, paye_modernisation, irish_bank_feeds, gdpr_data_residency, irish_support and free_trial against what the live site shows.
- 4
If everything matches, updates data_confidence to "verified" and last_verified_at to today; if not, lists discrepancies and asks whether to update the JSON.
Example
You: /verify xero-ireland Claude: 2 drifts. Stored starter price €12/mo; live shows €14/mo (vendor raised April 2026). Features list identical.
Source & attribution
- Author
- Bryan Collins (Vendors.ie pattern)
- Licence
- MIT
- Type
- Original
Original pattern published under MIT — attribution preserved by convention, not licence requirement.
Caveats
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