How does the quality score work?

It is a 0–100 score that builds as you fill your profile, and you need a score of at least 50 to publish.

You’ll need a quality score of at least 50% to publish your profile (this example shows a quality score of 58%)

Your profile’s quality score updates as you fill in sections, and the band above 75 is the score worth aiming for.

A score of 50 is not enough on its own. Publishing also needs five requirements to pass: Experience depth, Skills breadth, Professional narrative, Acknowledged gaps and Your name. Why won’t the Publish button enable? explains each one.

Detail

What moves it, in order. Experience carries the most weight by a clear margin, then your Narrative, then Skills. Basics, Gaps and Values contribute meaningfully; FAQ and AI Instructions contribute least. Portfolio is not currently scored at all.

The rules worth knowing:

Experience is scored per role, and a role with no private context scores nothing, however complete its public half looks. This is the single most common reason a profile stalls below 50.
Narrative is scored on your elevator pitch. The other narrative fields add depth for readers rather than points.
Skills counts your Strong skills, with a bonus once a still-developing skill exists. Moderate skills do not score.
Gaps rewards more than one entry.
Basics counts the core identifying fields. Your links are shown to visitors and your salary range is used for recruiter filtering (it is never shown publicly), but neither moves the score.

The exact weights

The score is a fixed set of weights totaling 100. Each tab’s points are rounded to a whole number and added together.

Tab	Points	How the points are earned
Basics	10	Three fields only: full name, current title and location. One filled earns 3, two earn 7, all three earn 10.
Narrative	20	The elevator pitch alone. 100 or more characters earns the full 20. A shorter pitch earns a proportion: 50 characters earns 10.
Experience	25	Roles that have a company name, a job title and at least one private context field filled. One such role earns 8, two earn 17, three or more earn 25.
Skills	15	Up to three Strong skills, worth 3, 7 and 10 points for one, two and three. Plus 5 points for having at least one skill in the "Still developing" column.
Gaps	10	One gap entry earns 5. Two or more earn 10.
Values	10	Seven items are counted: the five text areas, plus must-haves and dealbreakers when each has at least one entry. All seven earn 10; four earn 6.
FAQ	5	Complete FAQs, meaning both a question and an answer. One earns 2, two earn 3, three or more earn 5.
AI Instructions	5	One written instruction earns the full 5.
Portfolio	0	Not scored.

All eleven private fields on a role count the same toward the score. Filling any one of them makes the role count.

Where the points hide

Some things look as if they should score and do not:

Six of the seven Narrative fields. All 20 points sit in the elevator pitch. A long career narrative with a short pitch earns only a part of them.
The public half of a role. Company, title, dates and bullets with no private context earn nothing for Experience. Three such roles still score zero there.
A second private field on a role. It adds no points. It does matter for publishing, because the Experience depth requirement needs two private fields on at least one role.
Anything past the cap. A fourth role, a fourth Strong skill, a second still-developing skill, a third gap entry, a fourth FAQ and a second AI instruction add no points.
Moderate skills, and the evidence and Honest notes on any skill. Only the count of Strong skills and the presence of a skill marked "Still developing" are scored.
Everything on Basics beyond name, title and location. That includes your photo, your public URL, compensation and links.
An FAQ with a question and no answer. It is a draft and earns nothing.
Cards you added and never filled in. A role, skill or gap that still shows its starter text, and an empty AI instruction, earn nothing and pass no publishing requirement.
Portfolio. No item on that tab scores.

Apart from Portfolio, fields that score nothing can still be worth filling: public fields are read by visitors and the visitor chat, and private fields inform your fit assessments. What are the nine profile tabs, and do I have to fill them all? says who sees what. The score measures only what is listed in the table.

Quality Score bands:

Below 50 you cannot publish your profile.
Between 50 and 75, once the five requirements pass and while the profile is a draft, you will see an amber note, signifying that the profile may not sustain deep AI questioning on any tier, and publishing is allowed.
Above 75 the profile has real depth: the band worth aiming for.

In the Profile Builder the color of the score follows the same bands, with one difference: the number stays gray until all five publishing requirements pass, however high the score is. The amber note appears there only once those requirements pass and while the profile is still a draft.

Portfolio is not currently scored, and portfolio items are not yet shown on your public profile. Add your links so they are ready when the public rendering ships, but today they will not lift your score or be seen by visitors.

Last verified: 2026-10-21

Was this helpful?