Imagine this: you and your spouse have been married for years. You share a nice house, have a happy life, and have never missed a bill. Every credit card in the house is in your name. You handle the finances, and your other half handles everything else. One day, they walk into a store and apply for a credit card of their own. Declined. No history. No independent financial footprint. No credit score. Your partner doesn't exist.
In construction it works the same way. Your reputation travels through relationships. The GCs you've worked with know your work. But a GC who doesn't isn't calling around to find out. They're looking up your Q Score. And if you don't have one, as far as they're concerned, you don't exist.
Your construction credit score is the introduction
Think of the Q Score the way you think of a credit score. It doesn't tell the bank everything about you, but it gives them enough to decide if it's worth going further. The Q Score works the same way. It's built from your financial health, safety record, and business information. It's independent, standardized, and used by every GC and subcontractor on the COMPASS platform, supplemented by data and analytics that support both sides.
A Q Score gets you past the first filter: being seen. The one that happens before a GC picks up the phone. The score shapes how hard the GC looks, whether they ask more questions, and how long they take to get comfortable. No Q Score means the conversation never starts.
Submit your information. Get your Q Score. It's not complicated. Just get it.
“No Q Score means the conversation never starts.”
— COMPASS analytics team
