The scoreboard.

How the board is ranked

1. Rule 01
   One rule for everyone

   Every company is read the same way from what its public map shows. Nobody pays to rank, and a company cannot set its own score.

2. Rule 02
   Dimension scores

   Each part of a company's map gets a reading from 0 to 1 on each dimension, from its flows, its layer and what it gates or connects. The company's score is the average of its parts, lifted by its strongest one, shown out of 100. A map needs 5 public parts to score; under 40 it is marked partial.

3. Rule 03
   Public figures

   Revenue, employees and funding are read from sourced figures on the company's public map. The most recent stated year wins. Rounded numbers, ranges and third-party estimates are marked Estimate. Money ranks in US dollars; a figure in another currency is not converted.

4. Rule 04
   Unknown is not zero

   A company with no published figure, or too small a map, is not ranked at all. It is counted as unknown under the board, never placed at the bottom.

5. Rule 05
   Open web only

   Only findings that rest on the open web count: company sites, job boards, public registries, press. Code repositories, file shares and internal documents never count, and findings the company disputed or had taken down drop out.

6. Rule 06
   Ties and scope

   Equal values share a rank. A sector board includes every industry and segment under it. The board updates as the registry does.