Three visibility tiers: Pacesetter, Momentum and Emerging.
The Index groups the published 1,000 into three visibility tiers by score percentile. A tier names what an AI system can observe today.
Tier composition, Q2 2026
Percentile bands over the published 1,000 organisations, not over a market population. No organisation applies for a tier and none can buy one.
| Tier | Organisations | Band | What it reads as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacesetter | 100 | Top 10 percent by public-evidence score | The clearest public record in the region this cycle. |
| Momentum | 300 | The next 30 percent | A real public trail, uneven across the five signals. |
| Emerging | 600 | The remaining 60 percent | A public trail exists, but it is thin or uneven. This is the normal state of the region. |
Movement between tiers is driven by what an organisation publishes, not by what it buys. How the scores are built.
The country dossiers use a finer ladder
Every market dossier splits the same ordering into four rungs, so a reader can see where a market's companies sit without reading the regional table. The Singapore figures below are the example; each market page carries its own.
| Rung | Label | Regional order | Example: Singapore |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | Proven | Region order 1 to 100 | 12 in Singapore, of 257 in the market order |
| Tier 2 | Building | Region order 101 to 400 | 36 in Singapore |
| Tier 3 | Findable | Region order 401 to 1,000 | 57 in Singapore |
| Tier 4 | Scored, not listed | Beyond the published 1,000 | 152 in Singapore |
Rungs 1 to 3 hold the same organisations as the three tiers: Proven is Pacesetter, Building is Momentum, Findable is Emerging. Rung 4, 'Scored, not listed', holds organisations that cleared the evidence gate but are outside the published 1,000.
Every score also carries an evidence grade
A tier says where an organisation sits. An evidence grade says how much of the reading rests on the strongest sources. Both are published on every row.
| Evidence grade | Organisations |
|---|---|
| A | 113 |
| B | 811 |
| C | 57 |
| D | 19 |
Scores with grade C or D evidence show a direction only. 924 of the published 1,000 carry grade A or B. How the evidence grades work.
What the tiers do not claim
They are not an award or an assurance mark. They are not a readiness verdict and they do not measure private internal capability. Markets are not ranked against each other, and a tier is not comparable across editions without the method note that accompanies each release.