How verification works
Santua exists because the reviews you find on Google, Yelp and Reddit are structurally unable to tell you whether a yoga teacher training was actually good. They can be written by anyone, including people who never attended. Santua reviews are different.
1. The school graduates a student.
A real program, with real teaching hours, completes. The teacher confirms each graduate's identity and completion inside the school's Santua dashboard.
2. Santua sends each graduate a private magic link review.
The link is tied to their specific completion record. It cannot be reused, forwarded to a stranger, or generated by anyone other than the school owner.
3. The graduate fills out the review, including a mandatory honest-critique question.
They rate seven dimensions on a 1 to 10 scale (not five stars), describe what surprised them, who the program is right for, and what could be better. The honest-critique question is mandatory to answer, every time, for every graduate.
4. The review text publishes automatically, unedited.
There is no approval gate. Once a verified graduate submits, their review text goes live on its own, word for word. The school does not approve, reject, edit, or cherry-pick a single sentence. It gets a public right of reply, and can flag a review for Santua to check if it is fraudulent or abusive, but it can never suppress an honest review. Santua reviews are typed by humans, not generated. The one exception: the honest-critique answer is delivered privately to the school, not published, so a school gets direct, actionable feedback without turning a graduate's constructive criticism into a permanent public artifact under their name.
5. The review goes live on the school's public page.
Anyone, including search engines and LLM crawlers, can read it. The link is permanent.
With 5 to 10 verified reviews per school across hundreds of schools, future students can search by dimension, modality, career outcome and price range, and what they see is structurally honest. Schools that game the system cannot generate fake graduates; schools that earn glowing reviews despite mandatory critique earn trust.