Methodology

How Prop Firm Secret scores firms

Last updated: 22 April 2026

What the AI Score measures

The AI Score measures survivability at the funded stage, not how attractive a marketing offer looks on the sales page. The score prioritizes broker and liquidity evidence, public trust, operational behavior, and red-flag severity.

  • Broker and liquidity strength carries the heaviest weight.
  • People's Trust only counts when public review volume is meaningful.
  • Firm Behaviors reward real registration, longevity, and jurisdiction quality.
  • Red Flags reduce the score when toxic rules or disclosure gaps exist.

Evidence hierarchy

Terms, policy pages, FAQ answers, and legal disclosures outrank marketing pages. When a firm promises one thing publicly but the fine print says something else, the fine print wins.

  • Funded-stage rules are the source of truth for displayed drawdown, payout, and rule values.
  • Challenge-phase numbers are stored separately and never used for main display values.
  • Named liquidity providers, counterparty clauses, and simulated-account disclosures materially affect trust scoring.

Toxic rule extraction

Hidden rules

Hidden rules are extracted from buried ToS, help-center, and FAQ material, then classified by severity. Examples include floating loss limits, best-day rules, payout discretion, and dual-company structures.

Trading restrictions

Trading restrictions are kept separate from hidden rules. Strategy bans, copy-trading restrictions, weekend and news limits, and country blocks are disclosed as structured lists so crawlers and LLMs can parse them directly.

Structured data and public feeds

Each review page publishes Review schema tied to the firm being audited. The main dashboard publishes a KV-backed ItemList, and the live ranking feed is available at /api/rankings.json for search engines and LLM agents.

New firm checklist

  1. Verify the firm domain, canonical review slug, and favicon or logo source.
  2. Extract funded-stage plans, drawdown rules, payout cadence, and restrictions.
  3. Audit floating loss, best-day, consistency, payout discretion, and other hidden rules.
  4. Confirm broker or liquidity evidence, registration details, operating history, and Trustpilot data.
  5. Publish or refresh structured data, sitemap entries, and the rankings JSON feed.