MoveScore methodology
MoveScore is a transparent, deterministic decision-support tool. It turns the plan, inventory, estimates, and evidence you enter into an explainable 0–100 planning-risk score. Every factor below is published in full so you can see exactly how each point is earned. This is the same rule set the app runs—a regression test keeps this page and the scoring code in sync.
MoveScore is not a government rating, a safety certification, a prediction of what a mover will do, a guarantee of price or delivery, or a legal determination. A high score means the plan you entered looks more complete and lower-risk under these rules—it does not verify a company or promise an outcome. Licensing, insurance, and complaint history are never checked here; verify those directly with the appropriate regulator.
Weights total 100%. Missing inputs always fall to a low floor— absent data is never scored as favorable.
Each factor produces a 0–100 score. The overall MoveScore is the weighted average of those factor scores, using the weights above. Report confidence is reported separately and reflects how much of the underlying input coverage is present—a score built from little data is shown as low-confidence rather than quietly rounded up.
When scoring rules change materially the version is bumped. Each score report carries the version that produced it, so past scores stay interpretable.
Initial published methodology: 11 weighted factors summing to 100, each exposing score, weight, confidence, provenance, and a next action; licensing and other external signals labeled unverified.