Why it matters
Every market runs on promises. Nobody was keeping score.
A plant will open next year. A drug will be filed in the second quarter. A deal will close by December. Capital is committed, loans are priced and policies are planned on dates like these. Yet once a date slips, it quietly disappears. KeptIndex keeps the date, and measures who meets it.
The gap
Announcements move money
Investors buy on launch dates, lenders fund on completion dates, governments plan on investment pledges. The announcement does its work on the day it is made.
Misses are quiet
A missed date is rarely announced as a miss. It is restated, softened or simply not mentioned again, and the original promise drops out of view.
No shared record existed
Credit has payment histories. Accounts have audits. Public commitments had nothing: no independent, source-linked record of what was promised and what happened.
What the record already shows
Preliminary findings, recalculated with every daily update (last 2026-10-27). Outcomes are read from later SEC filings by an AI model and checked by a second, independent model; 95% have been double-checked so far (81% agreement). Figures may be restated as checks complete; every change is logged.
Two lessons follow. Delivery records differ widely between companies, so they carry information. And the kind of promise matters, so a fair measure has to allow for it. Both are built into the KeptScore methodology.
Why institutions adopt it
Solutions by industryInvestors
Guidance tells you what management expects. KeptScore tells you how often management is right, before you rely on the next date.
Lenders
Project loans and covenants rest on completion dates. A borrower’s record of meeting its own dates is direct evidence of delivery risk.
Insurers
Missed and withdrawn public commitments often feature in securities claims. A delivery record is a measurable signal of disclosure risk before a claim is filed.
Boards
Directors approve the plans. The delivery record shows, independently and with sources, how often those plans arrived on time.
Governments
Investment pledges and project dates shape public budgets. A neutral record shows which commitments were grounded and which were not.
Journalists and researchers
A sourced record to test a claim against, instead of a company’s own account of itself, and a citable ID for every entry.
A common language for delivery
Credit scores did not make lending possible; they made it comparable. One number, built the same way for everyone from a recorded history, let any lender read any borrower. KeptScore aims to do the same for public commitments: a single, comparable measure of delivery, built from the organisation’s own words and the public record.
For a measure to become a common language, people must be able to trust it without trusting us. That is why the KeptScore is designed the way it is:
- The organisation sets the bar. We never set targets; every deadline is the organisation’s own.
- Silence never counts against anyone. Only public evidence of a late, partial, missed or withdrawn commitment counts as a miss.
- Every number can be checked. Every outcome behind a score is listed with its source and a permanent ID.
- Nobody can pay to change it. Not companies, not subscribers, not customers.
- Rules first, scores second. The method is published for public comment before any score is published, and every change is dated.
- Companies can respond. Notice before a first score, a right of reply on any entry, and a public correction log.
What the KeptScore is not
It is not a credit rating, an ESG rating or an investment recommendation, and it does not judge management’s integrity or predict the future. A missed date often has causes outside a company’s control. The KeptScore measures one observable thing, and shows its working.
Help shape the standard
KeptScore Methodology 2.0 is open for comment until 15 December 2026. Companies, investors, researchers and public bodies are invited to respond.