Every "Best of" page on Revuo is ordered by one deterministic formula over data anyone can inspect: crawler-verified capability claims, evidence freshness, agent readiness, and profile completeness. Same stored inputs, same score — an outsider with this page and the public data recomputes the ranking. Positions are never sold, and there is no manual override in the codebase.
The core buying question is 'does it actually do X'. Coverage counts a capability claim only when the weekly crawler validated its evidence URL on the vendor's own site — an unvalidated checkbox is worth zero. Weighted per category via the capability-group blueprint (compliance weighs more in Billing than in PIM). Non-verifiable kinds (workflow) earn at most half credit.
Of the claims that can be checked, how many passed the last crawl. Rewards vendors whose documentation actually supports what their listing says.
Full credit when the last verification pass is 30 days old or less, decaying to zero at 180 days (where the eligibility gate takes over). Software changes; stale evidence is weaker evidence.
Buyers increasingly integrate software with AI agents. This is the existing deterministic 0-100 composite over API surface, protocol support (incl. probed MCP servers), SDKs, integration ecosystem, and developer experience.
A complete profile and public pricing are what buyers ask for first. 'Contact us'-only pricing scores this dimension's pricing half at zero — that is an editorial position, and a published one.
Every product's per-dimension breakdown is public — on its listing, on every ranked entry
("why #4?"), and in the rankings.get MCP
tool. The weighted total is exactly Σ weight × dimension score; nothing else enters.
A product is either rankable or it isn't; gates never leak into the score. Products that fail a gate appear on the ranking page by name under "Not yet ranked", with the reason shown publicly — silent exclusion is an operator lever this system refuses to have. Payment is deliberately not a gate: a free listing with complete, crawler-validated data is fully rankable.
Verified and Featured tiers buy vendor services (analytics, sentiment drill-down, a CTA button) and
clearly-labeled placement strips on browse pages. They contribute zero to
rankings, to MCP result ordering, and to the "verified data" trust flag — which is earned via an approved
vendor claim (crawl freshness is a separate signal, exposed as verifiedAt), and is free on every tier. Where something IS paid, it carries
a label at the point of display, including machine-readable
tier and
sponsored fields
in agent-callable responses.
Revuo is operated by the maker of FacetFlux (PIM), TenderStrike (tender management), Monego (e-invoicing) and Optivise. They appear in their own categories' rankings — excluded rankings would misrepresent the market, and self-inclusion is the forcing function that keeps this methodology honest. The rules that make that defensible are structural, not editorial:
houseProduct: true, so the disclosure survives AI-mediated consumption.Weights change only at quarterly methodology reviews, decided by editorial alone — never in response to a vendor request, and never in a sales conversation. Vendors (and anyone) can propose criteria the whole category is judged on; accepted criteria enter at their group's default weight and take effect at the next quarterly revision. Every change bumps the version, ships with a public changelog entry and ≥15 days notice to claimed vendors, and ranking deltas are never compared across versions. Off-schedule ranking recomputes are marked as such on the page.
Machine-readable: /api/methodology ·
per-category rankings via rankings.get on the
public MCP endpoint ·
the wider listing policy.