Trust is not a metric.
It’s not a backlink, an author page, a badge, or a clean site structure.

In LLM ecosystems, trust is a distributed pattern.

Models don’t ask:
“Is this source trustworthy?”

They ask:
“Does this source behave like something I should trust?”

And they answer by mapping:

• author consistency

• cross-platform identity

• semantic stability over time

• citation echoes across environments

• anomaly detection

• relational coherence

A site doesn’t need to be famous to be trusted.
It needs to be recognizable — predictable in meaning, stable in voice, and coherent across platforms.

That’s the core of Entity Intelligence:
credibility emerges from pattern alignment, not popularity.