Anyone can claim a credential. The entire difficulty of assembling teams for high-stakes work is the gap between a claim and a verified fact — and that gap is where most hiring risk, and most hiring delay, actually lives. GameChangers’ Trust Score is built to close it by drawing from sources that are hard to fake, not easy to assert.
What the score actually checks
The 0–1,000 Trust Score composites six verifiable dimensions, each tied to sources a person can’t simply type into a profile.
Identity (100), Professional (250), Research (200), Federal (150), Activity (150), and Network (150) — drawing on inputs like government ID, employment and entity records, ORCID publications and code contributions, federal registration, on-platform track record, and verified affiliations.
Why multi-source matters
A single source can be gamed; a credential can be embellished, a title inflated. Composite verification across independent sources is far harder to fake, because an inconsistency in one dimension shows up against the others. The score isn’t a reputation vibe — it’s a structured check, and every component is visible so the person can see exactly what raised or lowered it, and what to verify next.
What it deliberately excludes
Security clearance is not a scored, platform-verified component — it’s self-certified and labeled as such everywhere it appears, because no responsible platform should claim to verify classified access. Inferred demographic attributes never influence the score. The Trust Score measures verified professional facts, not proxies for who someone is.
‘Verified’ badges are everywhere. Almost none of them say what was verified.
Platforms hand out ‘verified’ checkmarks that could mean anything from ‘confirmed an email’ to ‘checked a passport.’ The under-appreciated failure is opacity: a badge that doesn’t disclose its own basis is worth little to a client betting a critical mission on it. The alternative is a transparent composite where every point is traceable to a named, independent source and every gap is legible. In high-stakes work, a verification you can inspect beats a badge you have to trust blindly.