In reply to Jeff Chandler.

The thing to keep in mind is that Envato is a large company with several marketplaces. We're offering our service as part of their "Studio" marketplace, which is separate from their "ThemeForest" marketplace. Envato Studio is a marketplace for professional client work, so to speak. For example, there are WordPress installation and setup services offered by some and business card designs by others.

Envato Studio just opened up a new category called "Expert Feedback." This is where a service like ours comes in. As far as I know, we're the first they put in this new category.

How does this change ThemeForest? Well, I'm hoping that there'll be some cross-promotion stuff. That'll be entirely up to the Envato staff if they feel it is a good move for all involved. Right now, we're trying to establish our service on Envato Studio so that if/when there is some cross-promotion, we'll look a bit more legit to ThemeForest authors.

On Badges:

I think I've talked about the badge idea elsewhere, but I'll try to sum up my thoughts here. There's a difference between having a review done and making sure the theme author follows through with all the suggestions we have. That's a choice they have to make. Theoretically, though not likely, a theme author could decide he doesn't want to follow any of our advice and just do his own thing.

To me, our service is not about peace of mind for users, which is what a badge would ultimately be used for. Rather, our service is to give peace of mind to theme authors. The two go hand in hand to some degree, but there is a distinction.

What I'm open to doing is something like a "reviewed by" badge, which doesn't necessarily mean that we fully endorse the theme or that the theme author corrected things to our satisfaction. As long as that's made clear, it's something I think we'll end up doing.