I also agree with James-Carroll that this does not satisfy the stated policy
I also read that as the company has “personally” authenticated/established a strong trust relationship with Canonical before applying.
Also I would expect the company to show the company registration on their homepage, which leads to the credence of the homepage. How should a policy reviewer find out if that company exists? But maybe that is only a thing where I live(?).
At least in this case could not find such.
I had a look at old request; the recent one from proton-ag made sense to me (which was granted). But I also saw some requests granted which do not seem to fit this part of the policy. The latest one is Verified Publisher Request - Hurdle Group Ltd
@holly What I find weird though is that many requests simply get ghosted(?). Is that saying that all the reviewers did a -0 (or -1) on such a request?