Disclosure

We'd rather tell you about our ties than have you find them. This page lists who runs the project, who pays for it, and how we keep money away from results.

Ownership & governance

The Open Peptide Project is run personally by Adam Greene. We are in the process of forming a nonprofit organization and will update this page with the nonprofit's registration details and board structure as soon as it is formed.

Family tie to a peptide seller

Peptide Hall, a company that sells research peptides, is owned by Caleb Greene, a family member of the project lead. Caleb has no stake in the project today. He may be invited to take part later. If that happens, we'll update this page before it takes effect.

Because of this tie:

  • Peptide Hall never advertises on this site.
  • Every Peptide Hall batch is labeled “Related party” on our results pages.
  • Every Peptide Hall batch is also tested by a second, unaffiliated ISO/IEC 17025 lab, and both reports are published.
  • Peptide Hall has no say in which batches we test, when results go up, or how they're worded.

Funding

The project is self-funded by Adam today. While our nonprofit incorporation and IRS 501(c)(3) determination are in progress, any voluntary supporter contributions go directly toward blind lab testing and hosting costs and are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions. See How we make money. Revenue is broken down by source every quarter on our Test results page.

How testing stays clean

  • Test samples are bought anonymously at retail. We don't accept free vials, and vendor certificates don't count.
  • Samples reach an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited lab blind, labeled only with a project code (the Open Peptide Standard; see Testing standard).
  • Results belong strictly to a batch, never to a vendor, and expire after a stated period.
  • Every result is published within 7 days of arrival, pass or fail, with its batch number.
  • Lab reports are checked against the lab's own verification before publishing.
  • Each result shows the date the report arrived and the date it was published.

Ethics review

The Evidence Library and Testing Standard are public educational resources. For our prospective observational registry (Protocol v1.1), we have committed to independent IRB review (Option B): participant enrollment will open only after our protocol and electronic informed consent receive a formal determination from an independent Institutional Review Board (IRB) and complete legal review.

Changes

If anything on this page changes, we update it and note the date. Last updated: October 25, 2026.