Buyer brief / edition 2026.7 / 27 September 2026
Choose a PQC discovery tool by the evidence it can produce
This dated index gives a starting shortlist, not a procurement verdict. QScout leads the published public-evidence aggregate, while peers lead individual criteria and eight named products were unassessed.
Five decisions to document
- Define your required surfaces and output format.
- Compare up to three named products on the unchanged seven criteria, including unknown evidence.
- Inspect each primary source and the dated rationale; distinguish vendor claims from tested artifacts.
- Run a permissioned pilot on a common independently labelled scope, including missed assets, false positives, evidence custody and controlled closure.
- Require a change and rollback plan that preserves security and operations.
Decision limit. No equal-build peer benchmark or customer outcome is published here; do not use the aggregate alone as evidence of superior code, engineering or field detection.
Use the product comparison and 98-cell explorer to select a pilot shortlist. The unassessed catalog may contain products worth testing even though they have no 2026.7 score.
Pilot decision record
Use one named build and the same permissioned cases for each accessible product. Record unknown rather than assigning zero when a build or source cannot be checked.
| Decision | Build, input, raw evidence and result |
|---|---|
| Estate and claimed discovery surfaces | Not tested / to be recorded |
| Native inventory and independently verifiable output | Not tested / to be recorded |
| Independently labelled misses and false positives | Not tested / to be recorded |
| Ownership, controlled change and rescan-confirmed closure | Not tested / to be recorded |
| Compatibility, interruption and rollback | Not tested / to be recorded |
Use the common test protocol; preserve failures, exclusions and exact native bytes.
Primary records
Qtonic Quantum Corp publishes this index and builds QScout; its product evidence received deeper review than peers. Method and full disclosure.
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