For vendors
Every report scores a category’s vendors against one requirement set, the same way for everyone. Submitting puts your product on that set and lets you confirm your own row.
In the report
Every report scores a category's vendors against one requirement set. Your answers put your product on that set and mark your row vendor confirmed.
Your product joins the category's vendor set and is considered for every future report in it.
Your product is scored in that report's next ranking round, on the same requirement set as every vendor already in it.
By segment
The requirement set is built for the report's buyer, so the same category ranks differently by segment and capability. A report shows where the order moves, not one verdict.
Mid-market
Multi-unit franchise
Independent groups
Overall category
Illustrative. Each cut re-weights the same scores for that buyer's Must Haves.
Your answers
One fixed set per report, authored by Olive or an Olive consultant partner for that buyer. You answer it once, and your answers turn inferred cells into vendor confirmed ones.
Browse the active reports to find the categories your product answers to. Illustrative set shown; every vendor answers the same one, and Must Haves are weighted separately.
Beyond the ranking · Olive + Proofmap
The score says what your product does against the requirements. It does not say what a customer did with it. A verified customer story, conducted or audited by Proofmap, Olive's customer-proof partner, is published beside your row and linked from the report to the story on your site.
A vendor third in a ranking with a verified story from a buyer like the reader is read differently from one second without it. That is the second dimension the ranking alone cannot give you.
Stories are disclosed, attributed to Proofmap as the party that verified or conducted them, and never change scores, position or whether a vendor is included.
Learn more
▶ Watch the full story · 1:46Patrick J. O'NeillFounder & President, Redhand Advisors
With the initial projects that we've utilized Olive for, we've reduced the time from Discovery to RFP by approximately 30%, and that's a pretty conservative estimate.
Patrick J. O'Neill · Founder & President, Redhand Advisors — interviewed on the record, December 2025
Three steps
Reports refresh about annually, sooner when demand justifies it.
Claim your vendor profile in Olive. The same account works for every report.
Respond to the report's project in Olive, the same set every vendor in the report answered.
Your response is scored against the requirements and your row updates in the report's next edition.
For vendors
Create your Olive account, claim your profile, and answer the requirement set once.
Questions
No. Inclusion and position are earned from scored evaluation data. They cannot be bought, by anyone.
No. Customer stories never affect scores, position or inclusion.
Everything featured is disclosed and attributed to the party that verified or conducted it.
Yes. The same rules apply to every vendor.
