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How Anrok’s scores are calculated

The full audit trail, recomputed from the verdict data at build time through the same code that produced the leaderboard: verdict × quality × story weight per cell, cells sum to dimension scores, dimensions blend into the PA Score. Every number on the product page is reproducible from this page alone; for why the formula looks like this, see the methodology.

verdict factors: full ×1.0 · partial ×0.6 · disputed ×0.3 · none ×0.0 · n/a excluded from both sides · cell points = weight × quality × factor · cell max = weight × 10

PA Score18/100

Agent-ready 21.1 × 0.30 = 6.33

API quality 10.3 × 0.20 = 2.06

Openness 14.4 × 0.20 = 2.88

Built-in AI 37.6 × 0.15 = 5.64

Automation 6.9 × 0.15 = 1.03

(6.33 + 2.06 + 2.88 + 5.64 + 1.03) ÷ (0.30 + 0.20 + 0.20 + 0.15 + 0.15) = 17.95 ÷ 1.00 = 17.9

Scores are stored to 1 decimal; the product page’s pills round to whole numbers for display. Each dimension below shows the stories, verdicts, and cited evidence behind its number.

Agent-ready21.1/100×0.30 of the PA blend

Outside-in: can YOUR agent reach and drive this product — API, MCP, CLI, headless runs, agent docs.

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationweight 2

2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Run tax through Anrok's APIs, or hand it to your agents. One engine powers all five jobs”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com“Retrieves a customer by its ID.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com“Lists the customers on your seller account, in ascending customer ID order.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/tutorials/api-integration-overview“this endpoint also saves the transaction in Anrok and associates it with the appropriate tax return”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“Certificates can be uploaded to Anrok via the Anrok UI as well as via the API.”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their toolsweight 3

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Connect an agent via an official MCP serverweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Run tax through Anrok's APIs, or hand it to your agents. One engine powers all five jobs”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Use an official CLIweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Drive the product through a documented public APIweight 3

3 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 24.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com“Retrieves a customer by its ID.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com“Lists the customers on your seller account, in ascending customer ID order.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/tutorials/api-integration-overview“This tax amount can be estimated using Anrok's createEphemeral endpoint and should be refreshed any time the customer changes something”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/tutorials/api-integration-overview“this endpoint also saves the transaction in Anrok and associates it with the appropriate tax return”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“Anrok responds with the list of customer tax IDs to collect... Anrok provides a list of valid tax IDs for each applicable jurisdiction.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“The Anrok Address Resolution endpoint resolves a customer address to its normalized form, suitable for sales tax calculations, as well as taxable jurisdiction(s).”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“This endpoint can be used to fetch filings from Anrok.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“you can use this API endpoint to create many-to-1 mappings to associate various products in your billing system with equivalent products that have already been created in Anrok”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Run tax through Anrok's APIs, or hand it to your agents. One engine powers all five jobs”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Build against official SDKsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“Certificates can be uploaded to Anrok via the Anrok UI as well as via the API.”

Subscribe to events via webhooksweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Agent-ready = 38.0 ÷ 180 × 100 = 21.1

API quality10.3/100×0.20 of the PA blend

The programmable surface once an agent is there — machine-readable spec, interactive docs, sandbox, versioning discipline.

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplesweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com“Retrieves a customer by its ID.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com“Lists the customers on your seller account, in ascending customer ID order.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“Certificates can be uploaded to Anrok via the Anrok UI as well as via the API.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“Anrok responds with the list of customer tax IDs to collect... Anrok provides a list of valid tax IDs for each applicable jurisdiction.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“The Anrok Address Resolution endpoint resolves a customer address to its normalized form, suitable for sales tax calculations, as well as taxable jurisdiction(s).”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)weight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“Certificates can be uploaded to Anrok via the Anrok UI as well as via the API.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“Anrok responds with the list of customer tax IDs to collect... Anrok provides a list of valid tax IDs for each applicable jurisdiction.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“The Anrok Address Resolution endpoint resolves a customer address to its normalized form, suitable for sales tax calculations, as well as taxable jurisdiction(s).”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“This endpoint can be used to fetch filings from Anrok.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“you can use this API endpoint to create many-to-1 mappings to associate various products in your billing system with equivalent products that have already been created in Anrok”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production dataweight 1

1 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 10 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policyweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

API quality = 7.2 ÷ 70 × 100 = 10.3

Openness14.4/100×0.20 of the PA blend

Can you leave, inspect, or self-host — data export, open source, portability.

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“Certificates can be uploaded to Anrok via the Anrok UI as well as via the API.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“This endpoint can be used to fetch filings from Anrok.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Run tax through Anrok's APIs, or hand it to your agents. One engine powers all five jobs”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com“Dashboard showing a world exposure map with sales data by jurisdiction and a UK registration threshold tracker.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/ai-atlas“Ask it anything about your sales tax and get an answer with the reasoning shown, grounded in your own transactions, registrations, filings, and certificates.”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Export all of my data in open formats and leaveweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 404 at https://apidocs.anrok.com/llms.txt”
  • [probe] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/swagger.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/api/openapi.json, https://apidocs.anrok.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com“Retrieves a customer by its ID.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com“Lists the customers on your seller account, in ascending customer ID order.”

Read the product's source under an open licenseweight 2

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Self-host the core productweight 3

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Openness = 7.2 ÷ 50 × 100 = 14.4

Built-in AI37.6/100×0.15 of the PA blend

Inside-out: how agentic the product itself is for its users — built-in assistants, autonomous features.

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the productweight 2

2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/ai-atlas“Ask it anything about your sales tax and get an answer with the reasoning shown, grounded in your own transactions, registrations, filings, and certificates.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Run tax through Anrok's APIs, or hand it to your agents. One engine powers all five jobs”

Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Run tax through Anrok's APIs, or hand it to your agents. One engine powers all five jobs”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Two dashboard screens showing tax obligations in 13 countries and automatic registration completion in 13 jurisdictions.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/pricing“Early alerts before you owe anywhere”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/ai-atlas“Ask it anything about your sales tax and get an answer with the reasoning shown, grounded in your own transactions, registrations, filings, and certificates.”

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the productweight 3

3 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 9.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/ai-atlas“Ask it anything about your sales tax and get an answer with the reasoning shown, grounded in your own transactions, registrations, filings, and certificates.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Run tax through Anrok's APIs, or hand it to your agents. One engine powers all five jobs”

Operate the product with natural-language commandsweight 2

2 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 6.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/ai-atlas“Ask it anything about your sales tax and get an answer with the reasoning shown, grounded in your own transactions, registrations, filings, and certificates.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Run tax through Anrok's APIs, or hand it to your agents. One engine powers all five jobs”

Built-in AI = 33.8 ÷ 90 × 100 = 37.6

Automation6.9/100×0.15 of the PA blend

Depth of automation primitives — rules, scheduling, bulk operations, webhooks.

Perform bulk operations across many items at onceweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com“Lists the customers on your seller account, in ascending customer ID order.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/openapi.yaml“you can use this API endpoint to create many-to-1 mappings to associate various products in your billing system with equivalent products that have already been created in Anrok”
  • [claimed-docs] https://apidocs.anrok.com/tutorials/“Anrok sellers only need to create product IDs for each unique tax category, not every single product in the catalog.”

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventsweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/ai-atlas“Ask it anything about your sales tax and get an answer with the reasoning shown, grounded in your own transactions, registrations, filings, and certificates.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/product/headless-tax“Run tax through Anrok's APIs, or hand it to your agents. One engine powers all five jobs”
  • [claimed-docs] https://www.anrok.com/pricing“Early alerts before you owe anywhere”

Schedule recurring jobs or workflowsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Version, review, and roll back my automationsweight 1

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Automation = 4.8 ÷ 70 × 100 = 6.9