What RaveScore measures.
What we publish — and what we protect.

A consistent reputation signal from public reviews

RaveScore is RaveHQ’s 0–100 score of a business’s public Google review reputation, built only from external Google evidence. It reads five headline signals from public Google review evidence. Profile, website, Maps, competitor, and AI-search findings belong to the wider, versioned 51-check report; they do not silently enter it. Critical gaps are also flagged separately so an average score cannot hide a consequential failure.

Five signals. Fixed headline weights.

The same five-part framework is used for every business. Publishing the categories and weights makes the score understandable without exposing the implementation recipe.

The framework is public. The operating intelligence is proprietary.

RaveHQ publishes enough for a customer to understand and challenge a result: the headline signals and weights, source families, evidence status, coverage, safeguards, and movement over time.

We do not publish the proprietary instructions, thresholds, calibration, quality controls, or prioritization behind a result. Those details are confidential RaveHQ intelligence and are not licensed as a recipe for reproducing the product.

That protected intelligence may improve by target market, vertical, business context, language, connected sources, and evidence quality. The five-signal framework and headline weights remain consistent while the recommendations adapt instead of becoming a one-size-fits-all checklist.

Every result shows its evidence

Profile details come from the matched Google Business Profile. Review signals use the public reviews available for that account. The mechanics for obtaining and evaluating that evidence remain proprietary.

The report identifies the matched business, measurement time, evidence coverage, and anything unavailable or incomplete that affects how a result should be read.

The rules that do not move

• 1
  External evidence only. Activity inside RaveHQ cannot increase RaveScore by itself.
• 2
  Measurement status shown. Missing or incomplete evidence is labeled, not silently filled.
• 3
  Consistent headline framework. The five signals and weights do not change from one business to another.
• 4
  Frozen history. A completed monthly snapshot is not rewritten later.
• 5
  Customer authorization. A public response or profile change runs only inside the customer’s chosen policy, and it counts as complete only after the change is confirmed.

Context sits beside the score, never inside it

Live competitor, category, and geo-grid evidence appears beside RaveScore only when it is measurable. Illustrative context stays labeled and is never passed off as a live competitor measurement. Read what “illustrative” means.