NRS · v1.0
Methodology
How a provider's Nearshore Readiness Score is computed, what it deliberately refuses to measure, and why a low score and an unmeasured one look different on this site.
- 5
- Eligibility gates
- 18
- Sub-factors
- 100
- Points on the scale
- 3
- Tiers above Verified
Updated Oct 5, 2026 · generated by the scoring engine itself
The three states
Measured
A check ran against a named source and returned an answer. The answer scores, and the source and date are printed next to it.
Pending / partial
No check has run, or one ran and could not cover what it needed to. The points leave the denominator. This is a statement about us.
No queryable source
The source does not exist in this company’s country. The points leave the assessable scale. This is a statement about the country.
Eligibility gates
Eligibility gates
Five checks, all answerable from a public source, all phrased positively. A gate phrased as a negative — "no enforcement actions anywhere" — asks for proof of absence across every authority in a region, and no search establishes that. A company that fails a gate is excluded rather than ranked. A company whose country publishes no source for a gate is neither: the check leaves the scale.
- G1Verifiable legal entity in a nearshore country
- G2Live site on the company's own domain
- G3Declared delivery presence in Latin America, with an address
- G4At least one named executive with a public professional profile
- G5Two or more years of verifiable operation
The scale
The scale
One hundred points across five pillars. Every sub-factor below is computable from a public source with no outreach to the company — that constraint is the point. The moment a factor needs somebody to answer an email, most profiles sit pending on it and the score starts reporting our coverage rather than the company.
AVerifiability
25
| A1 | Entity registration | Third-party source | 8 |
| A2 | Delivery footprint | Read from the company's site | 9 |
| A3 | Team verifiability | Read from the company's site | 8 |
BDelivery evidence
20
| B1 | Case studies published | Read from the company's site | 7 |
| B2 | Case study specificity | Read from the company's site | 7 |
| B3 | Engineering footprint | Third-party source | 6 |
CClient signal
20
| C1 | Review volume | Third-party source | 6 |
| C2 | Rating quality | Third-party source | 6 |
| C3 | Review recency | Third-party source | 5 |
| C4 | Platform breadth | Third-party source | 3 |
DDigital presence
20
| D1 | Site trust & experience | Read from the company's site | 6 |
| D2 | Search authority | Third-party source | 7 |
| D3 | Content & structured data | Read from the company's site | 4 |
| D4 | AI citations | Third-party source | 3 |
EBuyer transparency
15
| E1 | Commercial terms | Read from the company's site | 5 |
| E2 | Overlap & languages | Read from the company's site | 4 |
| E3 | Security & compliance | Read from the company's site | 4 |
| E4 | Contracting & IP | Read from the company's site | 2 |
Tiers
Tiers
A total is a percentage of what we assessed, so it is meaningless over too little of the scale. Certification therefore needs real coverage, and needs pillars A, B and C to have been looked at rather than skipped, since those three carry what a certification actually claims.
| Tiers | Minimum total | A+B+C floor |
|---|---|---|
| Elite | 93 | 85% |
| Distinguished | 85 | 77% |
| Certified | 70 | 62% |
Beyond that, no tier above "Verified" is awarded below 60% overall coverage, or below 40% in each of pillars A, B and C.
What this score refuses to do
What this score refuses to do
Score a company for a page nobody opened.
Absence of a crawl is our gap, not a finding about a business. Every sub-factor read from a website is forced to pending until somebody has actually read that website.
Treat pending as zero.
An unmeasured factor leaves the denominator. A company measured on twenty points that earned ten scores fifty, not ten — and the coverage figure travels with the score so the basis is never hidden.
Punish a company for its government.
Where a country publishes no register we may query, the factor leaves the assessable scale entirely. No company chose its registrar.
Rank the barely-measured.
Below the coverage threshold the total is withheld and the evidence is shown instead. A ranking of companies we skimmed is a ranking of our own attention.
Score the size of a settlement, a deal or a client.
The biggest number on a portfolio page is almost always a firm-wide total rather than one project’s outcome. Scoring magnitude rewards the vaguest writing.
Sell a position.
No provider can pay to appear, to move up, or to have a factor reconsidered.