About SARScore
Maps tell you where a place is. SARScore tells you how difficult it is to access.
The problem we measure
Two addresses can look identical on a map and take one minute or fifteen to actually reach. The difference lives in things no address database records: where a vehicle can genuinely stop, whether the entrance has steps, whether entry depends on someone answering an intercom, whether the lift works, how far the corridor runs. Deliveries fail at the kerb. Care visits run late at the gate. People who plan journeys around mobility make decisions on information that is either missing, out of date, or written to describe how a building was approved rather than how it behaves.
Access difficulty has simply never been measured systematically. That is the whole of what SARScore does.
How we measure it
Every location is assessed as an access route: the real journey from a practical arrival point to the final destination, broken into the stages where access succeeds or fails: the approach, the entry, vertical movement, and the internal journey. Contributors who actually visited record observable facts, never opinions: distances, surfaces, steps, entry processes, lifts, corridors. A deterministic scoring engine interprets those facts identically every time and publishes a score from 1 (very easy) to 5 (very difficult), together with the reasons, the decisive barriers, and the evidence behind it.
The score publishes only when verified evidence supports it. Where evidence is missing, SARScore says so plainly (score not yet available) rather than guessing. The full rules are public on the methodology page.
What SARScore is not
It is not a review site: contributors report facts, not star ratings or opinions. It is not an assessment of any person or household; it describes a route to a location, never the people at it. And it is not a compliance certificate: a score describes observed reality on the ground, which is exactly why it is useful.
Who it serves
Anyone who needs to arrive: delivery and field-service operators for whom failed access is a daily, measurable cost; councils, housing providers and property owners who manage buildings but lack ground truth about them; and every person who checks a journey before making it, with mobility needs or without. Organisations can read more on the organisations page.
Where we are
SARScore is in early development, running a contributor pilot in London while the methodology is pressure-tested against real locations. Everything the product claims is deliberately limited to what its evidence can support; that discipline is the product. If you would like to take part, the pilot guide has everything you need; if you represent an organisation, get in touch.