Reputation Watch and Top Reputation

What these two rows are

Reputation Watch and Top Reputation are the last two rows on the Compliance page, and they read the same underlying number from opposite ends: Reputation Watch surfaces the members whose public review standing has slipped low enough to need attention, Top Reputation surfaces the members whose standing is strong enough to hold up as the network's bar. Both rows are built from the same blended reputation composite score, a single 0 to 100 number computed per member from their public Google and Yelp listings, the same figure that feeds the "Reputation avg" stat on the Brand health hero at the top of the page.

Verinode does not decide who is doing well and who needs a call. It reads what is already public on Google and Yelp, blends it the same way for every member, and sorts the two rows so leadership can see the outliers at a glance. What you do with a low or high score, a check-in call, a recognition shout-out, a closer look at review response habits, is a leadership decision, not something Verinode recommends.

Where to find it

Open Compliance from the HQ sidebar (in the Compliance band), or go directly to hq.verinode.ai/brand-compliance. Reputation Watch and Top Reputation are the last two rows on the page, in this order:

1. Brand health composite (hero)
2. Standards & Audits
3. Safety Incidents
4. Cert Coverage
5. Critical Gaps
6. Compliance (per-franchisee worst-cert status)
7. Reputation Watch
8. Top Reputation

Top Reputation is the last row on the page.

How the composite reputation score is built

Each member's composite score is computed nightly by Verinode HQ's aggregate-refresh process, which reads that member's public review listings and writes one summary row per member per network. The math today:

• Google rating and Yelp rating are each converted from their native 5-point scale to a 100-point scale (a rating divided by 5, times 100).
• The composite is the plain average of whichever of those two the member has on file. A member with only a Google listing gets a composite equal to their Google conversion alone; a member with both gets the average of the two.
• BBB rating is also collected and stored alongside the composite, but does not currently factor into the blend itself. It shows up on a member's fuller reputation detail (opened by clicking through to their card), not in the composite math.
• Review trend (whether a member's reviews are trending improving, stable, or declining) is part of the same underlying data model, but is not yet populated for any member: computing a genuine trend needs a longer review history than Verinode has captured so far. Until that catches up, no member shows a trend indicator anywhere reputation appears, including on these two rows.

A member with no Google or Yelp rating on file at all has no composite score, and does not appear in either Reputation Watch or Top Reputation, there is nothing yet to sort them by. As soon as one rating comes in, they get a composite and become eligible for one of the two rows once their score crosses the relevant line.

Reputation Watch

What qualifies. Every member with a composite score below 60, sorted worst-first (lowest score on the left).

What each tile shows:

• Label: always reads Watch, in the row's red accent.
• Headline: the member's name (anonymized as a Franchisee # label in networks running the default privacy mode; see the privacy section below).
• Sub-line: "Score {N}," the composite rounded to the nearest whole number.
• Meta line: the member's Google rating and review count, for example "Google 4.1 (86)," or "Awaiting Reviews" if no Google rating is on file for that member (their composite in that case is built from Yelp alone).

The row shows up to eight tiles. Click any tile to open that member's card on the Network page (the Location Directory), filtered to that member.

Empty state. If no member's composite is below 60, the row reads: "All members on solid reputation footing."

Top Reputation

What qualifies. Every member with a composite score of 80 or above, sorted best-first (highest score on the left).

What each tile shows:

• Label: always reads Top Performer, in the row's green accent.
• Headline: the member's name (same anonymization rule as Reputation Watch).
• Sub-line: "Score {N}," the composite rounded to the nearest whole number.
• Meta line: the member's Google rating and review count, for example "Google 4.8 (214)." Unlike Reputation Watch, this line is left blank rather than showing a placeholder when there is no Google rating on file, since a Top Reputation member already has enough review data on some platform to have earned an 80-plus composite; a blank meta line usually means their score is built from Yelp alone.

The row shows up to eight tiles, and is the last row on the Compliance page. Click any tile to open that member's card on the Network page, same as Reputation Watch.

Empty state. If no member has reached 80, the row reads: "Top performers will appear here."

Seeing the full list

Both rows cap at eight tiles. To see every member, not just the outliers shown on the home page, click any tile (or open the Compliance card slider directly) to bring up the detail overlay: five tabs across the top, Safety, Cert Coverage, Compliance, Reputation Watch, and Top Reputation. Clicking a Reputation Watch or Top Reputation tile does not open this overlay, it routes straight to the member's card instead; open the overlay separately (or via another tile, like Cert Coverage) if you want the full-list tabs.

Inside the overlay, the Reputation Watch and Top Reputation tabs list every qualifying member, not capped at eight, each row showing:

• The member's name.
• A body line with their Google rating and review count, for example "Google 4.1★ · 86 reviews," or "Reputation data pending" if no Google rating is on file.
• A meta line reading "Composite {N}," showing the score as computed, which can carry a decimal (for example "Composite 84.5") rather than the rounded whole number shown on the home-page tiles.

Empty states in the overlay read slightly differently from the home-page rows, phrased for the full-list context:

• Reputation Watch tab, nothing below 60: "No franchisees in the reputation-watch zone right now."
• Top Reputation tab, nothing at 80 or above: "No top-tier reputations yet. Standouts appear here once review data accumulates."

Opening a member's card

Clicking a tile in either row (on the home page or elsewhere) takes you to that member's card on the Network page, filtered to that one member. What you land on there is still aggregate reputation data, the same categories HQ has visibility into everywhere on this platform, plus a fuller reputation breakdown than the home-page tile shows: the BBB rating alongside Google and Yelp, and how that member's reputation figures compare to the rest of the network. You are not looking at that member's jobs, invoices, or customer records. HQ's visibility into a member stops at compliance, safety, and reputation aggregates, by design.

The privacy boundary

Reputation Watch and Top Reputation are built entirely from information that is already public: Google and Yelp business listings anyone could look up directly. Verinode HQ never reads a member's private review-response drafts, customer contact lists, or the job files behind a review, only the rating and review count the platform itself publishes.

Where a member's name is shown, the two anonymization postures that apply everywhere else on the Compliance page apply here too:

• Franchise and association networks (the default "independent operators" model): every name in these two rows renders as an anonymized label, Franchisee # followed by four characters, rather than the real business name.
• Single-owner, multi-location networks (the "same entity" model): real location names show, because it is genuinely one business looking at its own locations.

Either way, the composite scores, ratings, and review counts behind the tiles are identical. The anonymization setting only ever changes whether a name is shown in the clear, never what data feeds the score.

How to use it

1. 1Open Compliance from the sidebar and scroll to the bottom two rows.
2. 2Scan Reputation Watch left to right. The leftmost tiles have the lowest composite scores and the furthest to climb.
3. 3Check each tile's meta line: a low score with a healthy review count is a genuine reputation problem worth a conversation; a low score with "Awaiting Reviews" may just mean that member has few or no reviews yet, not that existing reviews are bad.
4. 4Click through to a concerning tile's card to see the fuller breakdown, including the BBB rating, before deciding how to respond.
5. 5Check Top Reputation for members worth recognizing publicly or holding up as an example in a network bulletin or training session.
6. 6If you need the complete network list rather than the top eight on each end, open the Compliance card slider and switch to the Reputation Watch or Top Reputation tab.

Best-practice example

Say Reputation Watch shows a member at Score 48, meta line "Google 3.4 (61)." Before reaching out, open the Compliance row and Cert Coverage for the same member: if their certifications and safety record are clean, this is purely a reputation conversation, worth checking whether recent jobs generated a run of negative reviews or whether the member has stopped responding to feedback. Compare that against Top Reputation, where a member at Score 91 with "Google 4.9 (340)" might be a good candidate to feature in a network training session on customer follow-up, since their volume of reviews (not just the rating) suggests a consistent practice worth propagating.

Related articles

• Compliance overview: the full Compliance page, including the Brand health composite, Safety Incidents, Cert Coverage, Critical Gaps, and the per-franchisee Compliance row that sit above these two rows.
• The Brand Health composite score: how the reputation average blends with compliance and safety into the single hero number at the top of the page.
• Compliance by franchisee (worst-cert view): the row directly above Reputation Watch, ranking members by certification status instead of reputation.
• Critical Gaps: the bulk filter for members stacking up multiple certification lapses at once.
• Cert Coverage: the same certification data read from the other direction, one tile per cert type.
• Safety Incidents: the cross-network safety row that sits above Cert Coverage on the same page.
• The Location Directory and member lifecycle: the roster page every tile in these two rows routes into.
• Network health: the broader network home these member cards sit within.
• HQ overview: how the Compliance page fits into the rest of the HQ network intelligence platform.

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