Version 2026.08
What a TradeFlow profile shows
Three things, in descending order of how much they should move you: whether the business has been verified, what it has actually done here, and a score once there is enough of the second to compute one. A 0 to 100 rating from four components, recalculated whenever the underlying facts change. Business Verification is the largest single weight and is all-or-nothing, so the score cannot be talked up by filling in fields.
The arithmetic below is the arithmetic the platform runs. If you are reading someone's profile and wondering what it is worth, this page is the answer, and you do not need an account to read it.
Business Verification
The strongest signal on any profile and the one that does not depend on platform activity: an independent check of the company, its beneficial owners, and its key people against registry and AML sources. It is either done or it is not, and the badge says which.
Track record here
Deals completed on TradeFlow and peer reviews from the counterparties in them. An empty track record means exactly that and nothing more: most trade does not happen on this platform, and a trader with twenty years behind them starts here at zero.
The TradeFlow Score
A 0 to 100 rating combining the two above with profile completeness, shown once there is a track record for it to reflect. The components and their arithmetic are below.
When a score is shown, and when it is not
A score is shown to other people only once that account has a track record on TradeFlow for it to measure: at least one completed deal or peer review. Below that, a profile shows its Business Verification status and the underlying facts instead, and no number at all. This is deliberate. Two of the four components can only be earned by trading on the platform, so a number produced before any of that has happened would say more about how long someone has been a member than about whether to trade with them. An established trader who is new here should read as new, not as poorly rated. Members always see their own score and its full breakdown, whether or not anyone else can.
What the score is not
- The score measures what this platform can observe. It is not a credit rating, not a financial-standing assessment, and not a recommendation to transact.
- It says nothing about whether a party is sanctioned. That is a separate check with its own published methodology, and a high score does not substitute for screening a counterparty.
- Deal history and reviews only count activity on TradeFlow. An established trader who is new here scores low on both, which reflects their history with us rather than their history.
- Business verification is a point-in-time check. It is not continuously re-verified, and the score does not decay if a company’s circumstances change.
- The score cannot be bought, set manually, or adjusted on request. It is computed from the four components and nothing else.
Profile completeness
up to 25 pointsTwelve profile fields are counted: full name, company name, company role, business email, profile URL, phone, bio, website, country, avatar, trade responsibilities, and company identity. The proportion filled is scaled to 20 points. Two-factor authentication adds a further 5. Capped at 25.
A complete profile is the cheapest signal to produce, so it is deliberately the smallest meaningful weight. The MFA points are separate because securing the account protects everything else the score claims.
Read it carefully: This measures effort, not trustworthiness. Anyone can fill in a form. Read it as the floor, never as evidence.
Business verification
up to 45 pointsAll-or-nothing: the full 45 points if the organisation has passed Business Verification, otherwise 0. There is no partial credit. Members of a verified organisation inherit their organisation’s status.
This is the only component backed by an independent check of the company and its key people, so it carries nearly half the score on its own. All-or-nothing because a partially verified company is not partially trustworthy.
Read it carefully: It verifies the company existed and passed checks at the time of verification. It is not a statement about how the company behaves in a trade.
Deal history
up to 15 pointsEach completed deal is worth 1.5 points, capped at 13. A deal closed within the last 90 days adds a further 2. Capped at 15.
Track record counts, but a long-dormant history is weaker evidence than recent activity, which is what the recency bonus is for. The cap arrives quickly so a high-volume trader does not dominate the scale.
Read it carefully: Only deals completed on the platform count. A trader with twenty years of history elsewhere starts at zero here, and that is a limit of the measure rather than a judgement of them.
Peer reviews
up to 15 pointsThe average star rating multiplied by 3, capped at 15, then multiplied by a confidence factor of the review count divided by 5, capped at 1. A perfect rating from one review therefore yields 3 points, not 15; five reviews reach full confidence.
A single glowing review should not be worth the same as five. The confidence factor makes early reviews count for less until there are enough of them to mean something.
Read it carefully: Reviews come from counterparties on completed deals. They reflect those counterparties’ experience, not an audit.
When it changes
The score is recomputed whenever an input changes: a profile edit, completing verification, closing a deal, or receiving a review. Each recalculation is written to a history the owner can see on their score page, so a change always has a traceable cause.
A score is not a screening
The most important thing this page can tell you is what it does not cover. A high score says nothing about whether a party appears on a sanctions or watchlist source. That is a separate check, with its own published methodology, and it is free to run.