Reputation management, explained without the legalese
Straight answers on how HOD Reports are built, who is authorized to run one, how verification stays consistent, and what a reputation score measures that a credit score never could. Written by the team that runs the reviews.
- Your record. Your rights.
Understand your HOD Score and Report.
A HOD Score is a system-calculated reputation indicator. A HOD Report is the evidence-backed record behind it. Neither replaces your rights or a business's duty to make a lawful, individualized decision.
8 minRead - Reputation & eligibility
What a trust and eligibility platform is, and what one owes you
A trust and eligibility platform assembles verified information about people and businesses and makes it available to authorized parties for decisions about hiring, housing, partnerships, and other documented and consented purposes. Here is how that works, and what a responsible operator commits to.
7 minRead - Verified profiles
Verified profiles: what is inside one and how to read it
A verified profile is the document behind a hiring decision, a lease approval, or a partnership. Knowing how one is assembled is the difference between accepting a result and correcting it.
6 minRead - Screening
Verification and screening, done responsibly
Screening decisions decide who gets hired, housed, and trusted with responsibility. Run it wrong and you carry real exposure. Here is what a defensible process looks like.
8 minRead - Identity
Identity verification and why every record depends on it
Every record in a file is only as good as the identity it is attached to. Get the match wrong and you have published someone else's history under a stranger's name.
6 minRead - Public records
Public records: what they are, where they live, and their limits
Public records are the raw material behind a verified profile. They are also messy, inconsistent between jurisdictions, and frequently out of date. Both things are true at once.
7 minRead - Scoring
Reputation score vs credit score: two different questions
A credit score answers one narrow question: how you have handled borrowed money. A reputation score asks a broader one: what does the verified record actually say about how you conduct yourself.
7 minRead - Housing
Tenant screening, done in a way that holds up
Tenant screening uses a verified profile for a housing decision. That single fact decides what a landlord should check, what an applicant should be told, and what happens when something on the profile is wrong.
8 minRead - Employment
Pre-employment screening without the legal potholes
Employment screening is one of the most sensitive uses of a verified profile. The checks themselves are the easy part. The sequence around them is what decides whether a hire holds up.
8 minRead - Credit
Credit report, credit score, verified profile: what is what
People use these terms interchangeably and they are not the same thing. The differences decide which document answers your question, and Hub or Dub is not the source for one of them.
7 minRead - Due diligence
Verifying a business before you sign anything
Vendor, partner, client, or acquisition target, the question is the same: is this entity real, in good standing, and behaving the way it claims. Most of the answer is in public records if you know which ones to pull.
8 minRead - Risk
Risk assessment that survives being questioned
Every screening decision is a risk assessment whether it is written down or not. The difference between a defensible one and a guess is whether each input is verified, cited, and applied consistently and without bias.
7 minRead - Trust & standards
Authorized purpose: the rule that decides who may view a profile
A verified profile may only be made available for a purpose Hub or Dub authorizes. Everything else about screening on the platform follows from that one gate.
6 minRead