Story Review

A Story Review is a customer testimonial that is structured by AI and verified by a human, published as machine-readable data so it can be cited by AI engines. Pioneered by Wispra, it turns a customer's raw account — text or audio — into a faithful narrative of around 700 words that preserves an authentic verbatim quote, rather than reducing feedback to a 1–5 star rating. Each Story Review carries two independent trust signals: a Proof of Relationship (a verifiable Shopify or WooCommerce order, a CRM match or a transaction confirming the author is a real customer) and a 0–100 Richness Score measuring the substance of the content. It is only published after human moderation and with the customer's explicit consent, and the business may add one official public reply.

The format is designed for how generative engines work: they compose answers by retrieving structured, trustworthy sources and citing them, so a verified, Schema.org-structured narrative is far more citable than an aggregate star score. A Story Review marked "Verified by Wispra" requires both a real customer proof and a Richness Score of at least 60 — a double, independent condition. Because Wispra publishes its directory data openly (ODC-By-1.0) and never sells ranking or citations, a Story Review is auditable social proof, closer to a verifiable reference than to an anonymous rating.