MatchFast publishes rankings of technology companies. This page states exactly how those rankings are produced, what data they use, what we verify independently, and what money can and cannot buy on this site.
Last updated 6 September 2026. Named client evidence added as a criterion on this date. This page is the canonical statement of MatchFast editorial method. Where an individual ranking describes its own criteria, it follows the process set out here.
Editorial rankings are not for sale. Placement in a MatchFast ranking cannot be bought, and no company has ever paid to be ranked or to be ranked higher.
Directory position is not evidence of quality. We read review data from Clutch, but we do not treat any directory’s display order as a ranking. Clutch states that it may earn a fee for some placements, which is precisely why its order is not used as ours.
Every head office is checked against the company itself. Not against the location label on a directory profile. This check has moved companies off rankings.
What we rank
MatchFast ranks companies within a defined category and market — for example mobile app development companies headquartered in Warsaw, or software development companies headquartered in the United Kingdom. The market is a filter applied before scoring, not a scoring criterion. A company that does not meet the definition on the page is not ranked on that page, however strong it is.
This matters more than it sounds. Directory listings routinely attach a city label to companies that maintain a sales address there while operating from somewhere else. A buyer searching for a Warsaw partner is usually not looking for a San Francisco company with a Warsaw office. So each ranking states its inclusion rule in plain terms, and firms that fail it are listed separately with their real head office named, rather than quietly mixed in or quietly dropped.
The criteria
Six criteria are applied to every company in a ranking. They are weighted together rather than applied in sequence, and the weighting is stated below in order of influence.
| Criterion | What it measures | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Verified independent reviews | Rating and review count read from a live third-party profile, counted for volume as well as average. A 5.0 from nine clients is weaker evidence than a 4.8 from sixty, and both are shown. | Heaviest |
| Service specialisation | The share of a company’s recorded work that is actually the service being ranked, rather than a directory listing under a category it barely practises. | Heavy |
| Published pricing and minimum | Whether the company publishes an hourly band and a minimum project size without requiring a sales call. Firms that publish neither lose points, and are named. | Moderate |
| Client-reported project size | The project band appearing most often in a company’s verified reviews, which shows the engagement size the team actually runs rather than the one it advertises. | Moderate |
| Trading history | Years in operation, taken from the company profile and cross-checked against its own site or its company register entry. | Light |
| Named client evidence | Verifiable client work the company publishes itself — named clients and the products built for them, read from its own case studies rather than a directory summary. Where a company publishes none that can be verified, the field is left empty and the ranking says so. | Heavy — added 6 September 2026 |
| Independent recognition | Awards and recognition checked against the awarding body’s own results rather than a company’s marketing page. Recognition a company publishes about itself but that cannot be verified externally is labelled as self-reported. | Moderate — added 6 September 2026 |
| Head office | Where the company is actually headquartered, verified against the company’s own website and, for UK firms, Companies House. | Inclusion filter, not a score |
Where two criteria pull against each other, the ranking says so in the entry rather than hiding it. A firm with a large review base but a low share of relevant work will sit below a specialist with fewer reviews, and the page explains why in that company’s own entry.
When the criteria change
Criteria are added when better evidence becomes available, and a change is dated on this page. Named client evidence and independent recognition were both added on 6 September 2026, after we began verifying published case studies and awarding-body results directly. That brings the framework to eight factors: seven that are scored, plus head office, which is an inclusion filter.
A new criterion does not retroactively reorder a published ranking. Where evidence has been added to a ranking that was already live, the evidence is published in each company’s entry, the ranking states that its order was set on the criteria in force at the time, and the new criterion is applied at that page’s next scheduled re-ranking. Silently reordering a live ranking against criteria that were not published when it was written is the behaviour this page exists to rule out, and it applies to us as much as to anyone else.
Where the data comes from
We are specific about this because a ranking that will not name its sources cannot be checked.
- Ratings, review counts, hourly bands, minimum project sizes, headcount bands and founding years are read from each company’s live Clutch profile, on a stated date shown on the ranking.
- Head office, service claims, named client work, team location and delivery model are read from the company’s own website.
- Named client work and delivered products are read from the company’s own published case studies or portfolio, on a stated date. A client named only in a directory summary is not treated as verified.
- Awards and independent recognition are checked against the awarding body’s published results. For the Warsaw ranking that meant the Mobile Trends Awards 2024 results, which name both the commissioning company and the firm that built each app, and the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe listing.
- Company registration, registered office and incorporation date are checked at Companies House for UK companies, and at the equivalent national register where one is publicly available.
- Every source URL used for a ranking is published on that ranking, so any figure can be opened and checked in another tab.
Clutch is a source of review evidence and company facts. It is not the ranking. Clutch itself states that it may earn a fee for some placements in its directories, and for that reason its display order is never carried across to a MatchFast page. The sequence on a MatchFast ranking is MatchFast’s own and regularly differs from the directory the review data came from.
The verification step, and what it has caught
This is the part of the process that separates a MatchFast ranking from a directory export. Before a company is ranked in a market, its head office is checked against its own website rather than accepted from a directory label. Three published examples of what that check found:
iomico — carried a Warszawa location label and would have been ranked tenth among Warsaw mobile app developers. Its own About page names Olympia, Washington as head office, with Warsaw as an engineering hub. It was removed from the ten and listed instead among the international groups holding a Warsaw address. See the Warsaw ranking.
Coreblue — listed as a London company in more than one directory. Its own contact page gives The Apex, Derriford Business Park, Plymouth, under company number 10290102. Corrected on the page, and its entry no longer describes it as a London firm. See the UK ranking.
Dotsquares — commonly listed under London. Its UK head office is Albourne Court in West Sussex, with London as a second office. Recorded accurately, which changed the ranking’s stated geography: five of the ten UK firms are headquartered outside London, not four.
None of these findings makes those companies worse suppliers, and all three remain on MatchFast pages. They are published because a buyer choosing a partner by location deserves to know where the company actually is, and because a ranking that claims to check this has to show its work.
What we do not do
- We do not sell ranking positions. No editorial placement is available for purchase at any price.
- We do not copy directory order. No third-party display order is used as a ranking.
- We do not estimate. A figure that cannot be verified from a live profile or the company’s own site is left blank and labelled as not published, rather than filled with a plausible number. Where a company publishes no minimum project size, the ranking says so.
- We do not hide the negatives. Where the evidence for a company is thin — a small review base, a low share of relevant work, an unverifiable claim — it is stated in that company’s entry.
- We do not write on behalf of companies. Every entry is written by MatchFast. No company supplies its own copy.
How MatchFast makes money
MatchFast is reader-supported. Companies can purchase featured placements and video add-ons, and sponsored positions are always labelled. Paid options never change editorial scores — rankings are earned, not bought.
Stated more precisely, so there is no ambiguity: commercial placements exist on this site, they are visually and textually labelled where they appear, and they are never inserted inside an editorial ranking. A company that buys a featured placement does not enter a ranking, move up one, or avoid a critical note in its entry. If that ever changed, this page would say so before the change took effect.
Updates and corrections
Every ranking shows the date its figures were verified. Rankings are re-checked on a rolling basis and re-dated when the underlying figures change. A page whose data has not been re-verified keeps its original verification date rather than displaying a more recent one it has not earned.
Errors are corrected on the page. Where a correction changes a company’s position or a factual claim about it, the change is stated in the entry rather than made silently. To report an error, use the contact page. A company disputing a figure is asked to point at the published source it believes is wrong, which is usually the fastest route to resolving it.
Getting listed
Any company can submit itself for editorial consideration through the submit page. Submission is free, it is consideration only, and it has no effect on placement. A submitted company is assessed against the same six criteria as every other company on the page, and is added only if the evidence supports it.
Questions we get asked
Does MatchFast charge companies to appear in a ranking?
No. Editorial rankings cannot be bought and placement is never sold. Companies can purchase featured placements and video add-ons elsewhere on the site, and any sponsored position is labelled as such. Paid options never change an editorial score or a ranking position.
Where does MatchFast get its data?
Ratings, review counts, published hourly bands, minimum project sizes, headcount bands and founding years are read from each company’s live Clutch profile and dated on the page. Head offices, service claims and named client work are then checked against the company’s own website, and against Companies House for UK firms. Clutch is used as a source of review evidence, never as the ranking order.
Is a MatchFast ranking just a copy of the Clutch directory order?
No. Clutch states that it may earn a fee for some directory placements, so its display order is not treated as a quality signal. MatchFast reads the underlying figures from Clutch profiles, verifies them independently, applies its own criteria and publishes its own sequence. The order on a MatchFast page regularly differs from the directory it sourced review data from.
How does MatchFast make money?
MatchFast is reader-supported. Companies can purchase featured placements and video add-ons, and sponsored positions are always labelled. Paid options never change editorial scores — rankings are earned, not bought.
Does MatchFast use evidence beyond Clutch?
Yes. Head offices are verified against company websites and company registers. Independent recognition is checked against the awarding body — the Mobile Trends Awards 2024 results name Norbsoft as builder of a category winner (Wakacje.pl) and itCraft as builder of another (BeeSpeaker), and LeanCode is listed in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe. Named client work is read from each company’s own published case studies — for the Warsaw ranking that covers firms such as Future Mind, whose case studies name żappka, Biedronka, Sinsay and AirHelp, and Norbsoft, whose portfolio names SkyCash, Costa Coffee Club and PANEK CarSharing. Clutch supplies review counts and published pricing; it is one source among several rather than the spine of a ranking.
How often are rankings updated?
Every ranking carries the date its figures were verified, shown on the page itself. Rankings are re-checked on a rolling basis and re-dated when figures change. A ranking whose data has not been re-verified keeps its original verification date rather than displaying a misleading recent one.
What happens if a MatchFast ranking contains an error?
It gets corrected on the page, and where the correction changes a company’s position or a factual claim about it, the change is stated in the entry rather than made silently. Corrections can be reported through the contact page. A company disputing a figure is asked to point at the published source it believes is wrong.
Can a company ask to be added to a ranking?
Yes, through the submit page. Submission is free, it is editorial consideration only, and it does not affect placement. A submitted company is assessed against the same criteria as every other company on the page.
Who publishes this
MatchFast is an independent B2B discovery platform publishing researched rankings, company profiles and directories across technology services. More about the team and the wider editorial approach is on the about page. Editorial questions, corrections and disputes go to the contact page.