Digital Reality Score

Does the internet understand your company?

See how accurately and completely your company is represented across websites, search, directories and AI, and where relevant information is missing.

Preview with a fictional demo company:

Score first. Identity second. No email, no sign-up.

Acme Demo
Digital Reality Score
66/ 100
Moderate gap
79%Evidence Coverage
3Material gaps
digitalrealityscore.com/company/acme17 sources
Example. Acme is a fictional demo company, scored on accuracy alone (drs-0.10): demo companies have no listings to measure completeness and presence from.
The method, briefly

Your company has three realities

Business Reality

What is actually true

Who you are, what you sell, who leads you, who you serve. Confirmed by the people who know.

Stated Reality

What you say about yourself

Your website, your profiles, your press. Often right. Sometimes where an error starts.

Internet Reality

What everyone else understands

The wider web, search engines and AI systems, and what they repeat when someone asks.

The closer these realities align, the stronger your Digital Reality Score.

Learn about the Digital Reality Gap
How it works

From claims to a Score

A Score is built from specific, checkable facts about the company, never from impressions. Each claim is compared across the sources people and machines actually rely on.

  1. 01We read what you say about yourself

    Your website, newsroom and company profiles: the Stated Reality.

  2. 02We compare it with independent evidence

    Registries, reference works, databases, directories and press.

  3. 03We inspect how search and AI represent you

    Search results, knowledge panels and answers from AI assistants.

  4. 04We establish what is true

    From independent evidence only. Copies count once. AI answers never count as proof.

  5. 05We calculate your Score

    How likely what people encounter is accurate, published with Evidence Coverage.

What the Score means

Accurate, complete and present where it matters

Your Digital Reality Score combines accuracy, completeness and presence across the sources assessed. Accuracy: is what sources show right and current? Completeness: are the facts that apply to you stated where people and machines look? Presence: are you on the sources that apply to your category and market? Each is shown beside the Score, with Evidence Coverage: how much could be checked. DRS observes a defined set of public surfaces; it cannot see inside an AI model or assess the whole internet. Six diagnostics show where Accuracy comes from.

AccuracyAre important company facts represented correctly?

Probability that a source, any source, represents each claim correctly, with every source counted equally. The Score weights the same thing by exposure.

ConsistencyDo important sources agree?

Whether sources tell the same story as each other. Diagnostic only: sources can agree on something wrong, so agreement never raises the Score.

EvidenceAre important company claims sufficiently supported?

How many independent origins corroborate each claim. Copies of the same source count once. Two independent origins count as sufficient.

AuthorityAre credible and authoritative sources reinforcing those claims?

The standing of the strongest independent source supporting each claim. Registries and reference works rank above directories.

DiscoverabilityCan the places people and machines look reach the company and know it?

The share of surfaces checked that pass: crawler access, each AI assistant asked, partners’ own sites, the knowledge graph, the company’s own site and search. Partial counts half; a surface not checked is left out. Preliminary: every surface counts equally until calibration. Never part of the Score.

RepresentationDo search and AI systems describe the company correctly?

Probability that search results, knowledge panels and AI answers represent each claim correctly, weighted by exposure.

Each claim ends in one of three states: Aligned, Gap or Unresolved. Unknown is never treated as wrong, and agreement between sources is never treated as proof. Read the methodology

Why it matters

Buyers, search engines and AI decide from what they can find

  • Customers should find the company you actually built.
  • Your brand should be associated with the right category.
  • Important company facts should be accurate: leadership, products, ownership, location.
  • Search engines should understand what you offer, and to whom.
  • AI assistants should describe the company correctly when someone asks.
  • Company changes should propagate across the wider web, not stall at your own website.
Framework

Built on the Digital Reality Gap framework

The Digital Reality Gap is the open framework for how a company is represented across its own information, the wider web, search and AI. The Score is its measurement. The framework explains why the realities diverge and how gaps close.

Read the framework

What’s your Digital Reality Score?