The search for the best of the best is over
The annual Best of Industry Oversight awards recognize the highest-rated local professionals in every city across the UK. Companies that have won a Best of Industry Oversight award have a special ribbon on their profile.
Companies with a commitment to delivering customer excellence genuinely do stand apart from their peers, and it’s our job to make them easy to find. Nevertheless, their achievement is particularly significant as standing out from the competition has never been more difficult thanks to the far-reaching potential of emerging technologies.
That’s why we’ve created a business surveillance analytic program, which uses natural language and machine learning techniques to sift through ratings/reviews across hundreds of thousands of verified sources, along with reports on complaints, trust, and business reputation history. We track over 500,000+ blogs, forums, consumer review portals, and social media accounts to help our readers narrow their consideration set.
Only a fraction of service professionals have made it onto our list, and an even smaller number are featured as one of the top companies across the UK. To provide you with some insights into our work behind the scenes, here are a few statistics. Thus far, we have analyzed over 5 million authentic reviews spanning more than 100 business categories in each city in the UK. The highest-scoring results are then selected as potential targets for our AI-powered Business Intelligence platform, which evaluates the best professionals using our 150 exclusive data points. Currently, Industry Oversight monitors over 0.8 million small businesses throughout the UK. Out of that figure, only 50,000 have achieved a position on the first page of their respective category.
And finally, only a fraction of those highly qualified service pros have met strict eligibility requirements to make it to our featured list of 1000 companies across all categories, which is a truly astonishing feat considering the unsolicited nature of the recognition.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you choose the award winners?
Industry Oversight's award winners are chosen through a rigorous evaluation process using our 150 point inspection. For each category, we assess the features that we believe are most important to our visitors. Industry Oversight's general rating methodology consider:
- The steady flow of reviews
- The credibility of the reviewers
- The rating distribution consistency with statistical formulas
- The quantity and quality of verifiable information about the activities of the business
- Licenses, accreditations and rewards
- The lack of complaints about the company's activities in the public registers
... and many other features.
Who selects the awards?
We pride ourselves on unmatched technical and market expertise, which results in our AI’s ability to highlight stellar businesses among the competition, so most of the work is performed by our automated platform. However, there is no such thing as the perfect algorithm, so our team of experts — based all across the country — makes the designation’s final decision.
Can companies pay to get a Best-Of Award?
No. Our research team members are solely responsible for approving or rejecting participants based on comprehensive scoring formulas that assess each business's essential features, weighting them according to their importance to consumers. That's why only the best professionals can get our “Best-Of” designation. No company can "buy" an award.
How can I view past winners?
Our “Best-Of” award winners from previous years are still live, and we encourage companies to continue to celebrate their wins from this year and past years.