BENCHMARK PROFILE
Step One Ventures
Latest sync: Sep 8, 2026, 8:55 AM. Source coverage currently reflects Consensus data.
Readers who want an openly priced catalog with Freedom and ILS COAs that resolve at the labs under Step One Ventures / S1 Research client names, including clearly aliased S-/T-/R-GLP strengths.
Vendor-stated: Step One Ventures / Step One Ventures, LLC; research-use-only peptides for laboratories and institutions. Public About and FAQ pages do not publish a street address or shipping SLA. Some pages sit behind an age gate; catalog prices remain publicly readable. Domain registered May 2025. Observed August 3, 2026.
Some storefront pages sit behind an age-gate; use the public product prices and lab certificates for verification. S-GLP1 / T-GLP2 / R-GLP3 are branded names for semaglutide, tirzepatide, and retatrutide; S-31-S is SS-31. Syn-Ake and bulk/raw gram copper peptides stay off the single-vial $/mg board with B12, Lipo-C, and reconstitution supplies. No public street address was found for map precision beyond country-level USA.
A research storefront at s1research.net with openly listed vial prices and a public certificate trail of Freedom Diagnostics and ILS Laboratories reports that resolve under Step One Ventures / S1 Research client names.
Step One Ventures sells research-only singles and blends with prices on the product pages, including house codes S-GLP1 / T-GLP2 / R-GLP3 for semaglutide, tirzepatide, and retatrutide, plus S-31-S for SS-31 and a GLOW blend. Freedom Diagnostics and ILS Laboratories PDFs on the public media library and product galleries name Step One Ventures (or S1 Research) as the client and resolve at the labs. Some storefront pages are age-gated; prices and certificates remain publicly checkable.
Freedom Diagnostics and ILS Laboratories certificate PDFs are publicly linked from product galleries and the WordPress media library. Readers can confirm Freedom Search Code / Accession pairs on Freedom’s public index and ILS verify tokens on portal.ils-lab.com; retained documents name Step One Ventures, Step One Ventures, LLC, or S1 Research as the client. Soft-deleted media URLs that no longer serve PDF bytes are excluded from the evidence set.
This vendor is one of 113 names currently included in our manual curated research-vendor layer.
This is the strongest public transparency pattern on the site. The key signal is that readers can leave the vendor domain and inspect reports or verification pages on an outside provider domain without needing to log in.
- Treat the outside provider route as the strongest part of the evidence, not the vendor marketing copy around it.
- Look for repeated product-level behavior across the catalog, not just one showcase example.
- Do not overread it as proof that every current lot is covered or current unless the linked report trail itself supports that.
This vendor makes the most sense when you compare it to other vendors using a similar transparency model, rather than to every vendor on the board at once.
PB Curated Assessment is a PeptideBenchmark-authored rubric built from the trust and transparency review layer. It is separate from the source-derived benchmark score.
Step One Ventures is currently one of the strongest curated cases on the site because readers can inspect a repeatable public evidence trail without logging in.
Readers can leave the vendor marketing layer and inspect verification publicly.
This is the strongest public pattern because the verification step routes into an outside provider layer.
Current review touched 24 products and 87 document/link destinations.
5 named lab signal(s) and 1 certification category signal(s) are currently visible in the reviewed evidence.
Score 8.4 from 10-point benchmark blend.
PB Curated Assessment: Strong. This is our own trust/transparency rubric and is kept separate from the PB score.
Under the formula retired on Aug 28, 2026 this vendor scores 8.57 — the live evidence-first score is 8.91 (+0.34). What changed and why: scoring methodology.
Observed from public domain records and the vendor's own site on Aug 27, 2026. Identity facts are shown for context and do not affect scores. We could not read some of this vendor’s pages, so “Unknown” means we could not look — not that nothing is published.
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Same third-party review signals shown on the vendor board. Click Trustpilot or Pep Review Pro to open the source profile.
PB score is the number you should read first on this page. It starts with trust evidence, pricing coverage, and third-party review signals from Finnrick, Peptide Critic, Trustpilot, and Pep Review Pro when available. Reviewed transparency evidence contributes a bounded amount — shown as a trust lift for source-benchmarked vendors, and folded into the base score for PB-evidence vendors.
This vendor’s score is evidence-first: verifiable testing evidence forms the backbone, and outside review sources are a bounded adjustment that can warn far more than it can boost. The terms below sum to the displayed score (small rounding aside). Full formula on the scoring methodology page.
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METHODOLOGY
How to read this benchmark
This profile summarizes public benchmark data synced from Finnrick and, when available, Peptide Critic. Finnrick contributes a 10-point average from its vendor table, while Peptide Critic contributes a 5-star rating that we normalize to a 10-point scale before ranking consensus entries.
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