What about a counterparty that just does due diligence? They can dig further and figure out if the team can actually accomplish the task and if the service is

What about a counterparty that just does due diligence? They can dig further and figure out if the team can actually accomplish the task and if the service is vaporware or real. This could be a simple badge program (for some upfront fixed vetting fee) that lets people say they have been verified. The problem is that Kickstarter isn't just filtering for viability. Some sort of DD would help say that the project is feasible and eliminate the politics.