How do you build a verifiable professional reputation?

Why a scale is needed

In every emerging profession the challenge is the same: how do you demonstrate what you can do if no one has seen you at work yet? Qualifications help but are not enough; self-declarations are worthless. Simbial's answer is a merit scale built on recorded facts: each level corresponds to things that have actually happened, verifiable by anyone in the register. The scale is not a points game: it is a portable reputation.

The levels: Verified, Pro, Expert, Champion

Simbial Verified means you have passed the qualification assessment for your role: you know how to work with the method. Pro comes only through fieldwork: your first real contributions, evaluated by those who worked alongside you. Expert is someone with consistent cumulative impact, validated projects, and demonstrated quality over time. Champion is the rare summit: only certified results, the highest quality, and continuous activity. No level can be purchased and none can be self-declared.

Quality matters as much as quantity

Accumulating points is not enough: the scale also weighs reliability. Ratings received on projects (punctuality, quality of deliverables, professionalism) become a rating that can move you up — but also down; prolonged inactivity causes you to drop a level; misconduct has consequences. It is a living scale, like real reputation: it reflects who you are now, not just who you have been.

The protected field: where making mistakes is allowed

Before the real field comes the protected field: the simulated project of your role, with the same 4 phases as real projects and Gea teaching within the work. Here, mistakes cost no one anything and are the best teacher available. It is the training ground before the match: no real clients, just enough real pressure, maximum learning.

The assessment: defending your choices

Between the protected field and the real field comes the qualification assessment: you defend the choices made in the simulated project in front of Gea, who puts them to the test the way a demanding client would. Passing it means becoming Simbial Verified in your role. It is not a quiz: it is proof that you can back up your work with solid reasoning.

A reputation that speaks for you

Everything you build — assessment passed, contributions to projects, ratings, impact recorded — lives in the register and can be shared: with the companies you want to work with, within the organisation you work for, with your community. You do not need to ask anyone to take you at your word: you can let the facts speak for themselves.