How the Score works

The one-line version

The CheckTheOrg Score is a single number from 0 to 100 estimating how safe a company is to join — not how profitable or famous it is. It's a weighted blend of six pillars, each scored 0–100 from public records. A higher score means fewer risk signals in the data we can see.

The six pillars & their weights

Each pillar starts neutral and moves up or down on real signals. The composite is their weighted average:

Compensation fairness is also shown on each report (from salary data & pay sentiment) but is displayed for context, not folded into the composite.

Where the data comes from

• Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) — status, directors, charges, capital, filings.
• Company financials — for listed companies, from public market data.
• Employee-review platforms — aggregate ratings & theme sentiment.
• News — layoffs, funding and controversy signals.
• EPFO — provident-fund registration.
• CheckTheOrg community reviews — our own first-party, structured safety reviews.

Every red or green flag on a report is sourced — it points back to the public record it came from. We report signals, not verdicts.

When we don't have enough data

A score is only as good as the data behind it. So every report shows a “Based on…” strip telling you exactly which data we have, and we hold ourselves to three rules:

• Missing ≠ bad. A small or new company isn't penalised just for having a smaller public footprint. Absence of data never counts as a negative signal.
• Thin data isn't a verdict. If we only have the bare registry record, we say “Not enough data to rate yet” instead of showing a confident colour.
• Decisive facts still count. A struck-off or under-liquidation status is a clear public fact — those companies are flagged as risky on that basis alone.