Read the digits like a credit score: higher is better, and the band tells you where the bar is. The difference is what sits behind them — every point is backed by evidence a named reviewer has read, and every verified code carries the tick.
A company can reach 87 and still not be Proven. Until every gate is met, its code is held in Strong — and it can see exactly which gate is missing.
In principle, yes. In practice, almost never — by design. 99 needs every question in scope confirmed at source by the body that issued the evidence, plus a clean observed traceback.
We expect the best operators to sit between 90 and 96, much as very few people ever see a perfect credit score. If too many companies crowd the top, the scale has stopped telling buyers anything, and we recalibrate at a scheduled checkpoint — never mid-cycle.
Free. Confirm with a work email or a DNS record. Any estimate on your page is withdrawn the moment you finish your first assessment.
Industry, role and commodities decide the questions — about 86 of 97 for a leafy-greens grower. Questions that do not apply leave scope entirely.
Assign domains to the people who own them. Every answer takes evidence in the same step — a statement, a signed document, an audit, or a confirmation from the issuer.
A deliberate act. Readiness checks run first; a submission with unanswered questions or an unresolved conflict is refused, with the reason.
Every document, statement and confirmation is read and given an evidence level by a person — the assistant proposes, it never decides. The level can never exceed what is attached.
Code, band, coverage and what moved it, with 48 hours to query anything before it publishes.
Buyers see the code, its band and how it is backed. Evidence expires on schedule and the code follows it; refresh quarterly, or whenever you add evidence and resubmit.
The same answer scores differently depending on what stands behind it. These are real kinds of document, with invented details.
You state it is true
A signed, dated document, reviewed by VTS
An auditor or certifying body attests, or observed it
The issuing body confirms it directly
Six of the twelve domains. You will usually already have most of these.
Your listing probably exists already. Claim it, and replace anything we estimated with a code you control.