Business Transparency Platform

Standing Index

"It's good business to know who you're doing business with."

Structured, objective intelligence on companies. Not ratings. Not reviews. A standing record — filtered to your perspective.

Who are you? Select your role to get started.
Customer You buy from or hire companies
Partner You work alongside or contract with companies
Employee You work or want to work for companies
Entrepreneur You research markets and competitive landscapes
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How It Works

Two ways to use the Index.

Look Up — Research Mode

Find out where a company stands.

Identify who you are, then search. You'll only see the data that's relevant to your relationship with a company — no noise from other perspectives.

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Identify yourself — customer, partner, employee, or entrepreneur
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Search a company by name, industry, or region
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See structured data from people who've been in your exact position
Submit — Contribute Mode

Add to the record.

Answer structured questions — not a freeform review box. Every question is the same for every respondent, so the data is comparable and actually useful.

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Find the company you've worked with, hired, or applied to
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Answer role-specific questions — each quantified, no opinion fields
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Your data joins the Index — anonymized, structured, useful to people like you
Who It's For

Your role shapes what you see.

Customers
Did they deliver what was described? Was pricing transparent? Would others hire them again at the same price point?
"Know what you're paying for. Know what you'll get."
B2B Partners
Payment reliability, scope respect, on-time rates — expressed as fractions and percentages, not adjectives.
"Know what it's like to work with them — before you do."
Employees
Compensation gap in dollars and percent. Leadership follow-through. Growth path clarity. Structured, not venting.
"Find a company that fits. Not just one that's hiring."
Entrepreneurs
Map a market before you enter it. Who's operating, where are satisfaction gaps, and where does a new entrant win immediately?
"See who's in the space, and where the gap is."
What Makes It Different

No adjectives. No opinions.
Just the same questions, every time.

Every platform that came before Standing Index asked people to describe their experience in their own words. That produces noise, bias, and data you can't compare across companies.

Standing Index asks the same structured questions to every person in the same role. The result is a record — objective, comparable, and actually useful for making decisions.

Comments exist. People leave them. But they're tucked away and disclaimed — because Standing Index is not a comment platform. It's an index.

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Partners: late on 3 of 14 engagements (21%)
Not "they're always late." A fraction and a percentage. Every time, every company, same question.
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Employees: $18K / 23% estimated comp gap
Not "I feel underpaid." Current comp vs. estimated market comp — in dollars and percent.
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Customers: 87/100 on scope delivery
Not "great work." A score derived from the same question asked the same way to every customer.
Explore the Index

Browse by industry, region, and tier.

Industry
Region
Market Tier
General Contracting — San Francisco
Meridian General
San Francisco, CA · Mid-market · Regional
Customer 81
Partner 74
Employee 79
Index Verified
Architecture — San Francisco
Gensler
San Francisco, CA · Premium · National
Customer 88
Partner 79
Employee 82
Index Verified
Architecture — San Francisco
KMD Architects
San Francisco, CA · Mid-market · Regional
Customer 74
Partner 91
Employee 68
Market Signal · Entrepreneur View
Opportunity detected

2 firms with strong customer awareness but partner scores below 72. A firm prioritizing B2B reliability could capture meaningful share here.

Why Standing Index

Not good or bad.
Just known.

Our Position
Standing Index is a pro-business platform. We believe competition makes markets better — and that competition only works when everyone has access to neutral information.
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A low-cost leader with honest data is a known quantity.

That's not a bad company — that's a company you can make an informed decision about. Standing Index doesn't punish value-driven businesses. It rewards transparency.

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Structured questions beat open-ended venting.

Glassdoor created a place to be angry. Standing Index creates a place to be useful. The same question asked the same way produces data that helps everyone — including the companies.

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What pisses people off is not getting what they were promised.

Not the price. Not the tier. The gap between expectation and reality. Standing Index closes that gap — before you hire, partner, buy, or build.

"It's okay to get what you pay for.
What's not okay is not knowing what you're getting."
Standing Index, Inc.
For customers
"Know what you're paying for. Know what you'll get."
For partners
"Know what it's like to work with them — before you do."
For employees
"Find a company that fits. Not just a company that's hiring."
For entrepreneurs
"See who's in the space, and where the gap is."

Know where they stand.

Search a company. Submit your experience. Or explore the landscape in your industry.

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