How Spa Intelligence reads a booking.

Look Books live on vanityvice.blog. They are the editorial — rooms, faces, the mood of a practice. This is where a booking is read. Mixing them would turn a reading into a mood board, or a mood board into a ranking. Photography here shows the room; it does not grade the clinic.

Grouped the way a booking conversation tends to go:

Each check gets one of four marks. Every mark has a symbol and a word, so colour is never the only cue.

●Answered

They told you, specifically enough to quote back or look up.

◐Half-answered

An answer came, but a vague one: a title instead of a license, “premium product” instead of a name.

○Not answered yet

Nobody has answered yet. Often that just means nobody has asked.

⊘Declined

You asked, and they wouldn’t say.

Silence can mean the question hasn’t come up. A refusal means it has, and the answer was no. So a declined question is never rounded up, never filled in with a guess, and never looks better than a question that’s still open.

Each reading shows how much checking is still owed before booking: Light, Moderate, Heavy or Very heavy. It counts work: questions to ask, licenses to look up, documents to read.

It isn’t a risk rating. A heavy load doesn’t mean anything is wrong. It means there’s more to find out before you book.

Spa Intelligence never ranks places, scores providers, or tells you which to book. Comparing places lines up what each one has told you, side by side. The decision stays yours.

It’s education only: no diagnosis, no view on whether a treatment suits you, and no legal or financial advice.

The house ladder is applied here to copy, never to a procedure. Established does not mean the treatment works. It means a document could settle the sentence.

• Established
• Supported
• Mixed
• Thin
• Mechanistic only
• No adequate evidence found

1. Established

   A document could settle this sentence.

   Checkable as written — a licence, an indication, a follow-up period. Not a verdict that the treatment works.

2. Supported

   Something specific could be produced.

   A fact, a name, or a number would count. Ask for it before money moves.

3. Mixed

   Partly specific, partly atmosphere.

   Some of the sentence could be checked; the rest is doing rhetorical work.

4. Thin

   Could be specific, and is not.

   The missing number or name is the question. Thin is not the same as false.

5. Mechanistic only

   A how-it-works story with no test attached.

   Mechanism language is not evidence of an outcome. Ask what would be measured.

6. No adequate evidence found

   Nothing would count as failing this sentence.

   Unfalsifiable copy. Asking about it politely produces more of the same sentence.

A promotional figure is not a total. A floor (“from”) is not a total. A per-unit rate is not a total. Quantity, unit, scale, precision, origin, time period and source sit as written. A valid price range is not published here. Missing deposit and cancellation stay missing. Two disagreeing figures are never averaged.

Every factual claim on this site names its source and the date it was checked.

• State rules and license lookups: state board websites, statutes, regulations and board guidance, checked state by state. Each rule shows its own source and date; the current set was checked on Sep 14, 2026.
• Products and devices: FDA databases, FDA safety communications and product labeling on DailyMed, checked Sep 14, 2026.
• Money: lender and financing pages, CFPB materials, and published average fees from ASPS and The Aesthetic Society, checked Sep 14, 2026. Those are society-reported averages. They are not what this clinic charges, and they are not a fair price.
• National lookup tools: Nursys (NCSBN), NCCPA’s Verify PA-C and ABMS Certification Matters, checked Sep 14, 2026.
• Marketing claims: the Register at Vanity or Vice, where each entry shows the date its search was last run.

When we can’t source a fact, we don’t state it. We write the question to ask instead. What changed, and when

When you ask Spa Intelligence to read a quote, DM, menu or consent form, the reading happens in this browser. The text is matched against a set of rules that came with the page — the same rules that produce the exact wording shown behind every item in the result. Nothing is sent to Anthropic, and no third party sees the document.

Text you paste doesn’t leave this browser. There is no request to the server for it — the rules are already here, so there is nothing to ask for.

A PDF is the exception. Only a server can open a PDF and pull the words out, so the file is uploaded, the words come back, and your browser reads them. The page says so where you pick the file. It isn’t stored, and nothing about what the document says is logged — only the kind of document, its size and its page count.

Photos can’t be read while the full reader is off, and nothing is uploaded when you pick one. Reading words out of an image is the part that needs Claude. The page asks you to paste the words instead.

The reading is shown to you, and you choose what to keep in your booking file, which lives in this browser. This site doesn’t store the document or the reading.

• Every report is moderated before it counts.
• Reports are only ever shown in aggregate, never one by one.
• No names or contact details are collected, and no IP address is stored.
• A price band appears only after at least 10 reports spanning at least 2 months.

Spa Intelligence is published by Vanity or Vice. It takes no industry funding, does not rank providers, and keeps sourced facts separate from the decision-support interpretation built on top of them.

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