How the numbers are made

The record we maintain

1. 1
   Submission or research

   Companies submit a profile, or our research adds them. Every researched record carries the source URLs it came from and a confidence level.

2. 2
   Automated checks

   The website must answer, the HQ city is geocoded, and a record that repeats a known website domain or name-and-country pair is skipped.

3. 3
   Publish gate

   A record goes public on its own only with high confidence, two or more sources (at least one outside the company’s own website), a live website, a recognised country, active status and a sector. Everything else waits for human review.

4. 4
   Weekly re-check

   Every week, the websites checked longest ago are checked again, so each company is revisited about every six weeks. A site that fails three checks in a row, or looks parked, opens a review item; the record is not deleted.