How to Read a TechBehemoths Company Profile Before You Hire

TechBehemoths is a Berlin directory of IT and digital service providers, and marketplace agencies sit on it beside software houses and design studios. Its announcement of 10 November 2026 says it lists more than 62,000 companies in more than 140 countries, and every profile now carries the same parts: an EXO Score, TechBehemoths reviews alongside reviews brought in from other sites, a portfolio, a list of services, and for some an award badge.

The short answer: the score, the reviews and the awards are evidence of different strengths, and the position on a page is partly bought. Each part proves something narrower than it looks, and the platform is unusually plain about which parts money can touch. What follows comes from TechBehemoths' own announcements of its rebuild in October and November 2026, its 2025 awards announcements and its published rules, read on 14 November 2026, for a brand choosing who should run its Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop or Shopify accounts.

TechBehemoths says it is free for both sides. Company profiles cost nothing, and it takes no commission from buyers or providers on the projects it helps start. Its revenue, in its own announcement of 21 October 2026, "comes from two paid visibility tiers, CORE and PRO". Its founder put the model in one line: "We sell one thing, the spotlight, and everything else comes free."

That sentence is useful to a buyer, because it says where to look for money's influence and where not to. By the platform's account, the score and the awards are earned the same way by every company, paying or not. The order in which you meet those companies is not, and neither is everything a profile is allowed to show.

TechBehemoths is built around IT services, and marketplace work arrives in it under the nearest names. Amazon Advertising and eCommerce are among its service listings, by city and by country. An agency that runs Seller Central, Walmart Marketplace and TikTok Shop accounts every day has to choose which services to stand under, and a brand looking for one has to search more than one.

The plan limits make that matter. A free profile, the November announcement says, includes "up to five services, and two locations", and more services and locations are among what the paid plans add. So an agency doing exactly your work can be missing from the listing you searched, while one that builds online stores sits beside one that manages advertising budgets daily. Read the services list and the portfolio for the work itself, named: account management, marketplace advertising, listings, account health.

The centre of the rebuilt profile is the EXO Score, which TechBehemoths describes as "a rating built from 21 metrics across six categories, including reviews, awards, portfolio and profile completeness." The November announcement adds company descriptions and profile information to the factors. The score helps decide where a company appears in search results, listing pages and filters, and the platform is emphatic that it is not for sale: "There is no price tag on the EXO Score. Paid plans buy visibility, they don't buy a better score."

Read it for what it is built from. Most of the named inputs are about how complete and well evidenced the profile is, and one, awards, is half a popularity count, as the section on awards shows. A high score says an agency has documented itself thoroughly and collected reviews and recognition. It does not say the documentation describes work like yours, and a low score can belong to a capable agency that has never maintained its listing.

Next to the score sits an AI-written summary of the profile, which TechBehemoths says "sets out what the evidence supports and where it is thin" and compares the company with others in the same city on profile strength, pricing, number of services and years in business. Read the thin part first. It is the nearest thing on the page to a second opinion, and the platform writes it, not the agency.

The score is one of two things deciding where you meet a company. The other is its plan. In TechBehemoths' words, "CORE companies appear above free listings with a full profile card; PRO companies sit in a featured section at the top of listing pages for their cities, countries, and services." Inside each paid tier, positions rotate, "so every company in a plan gets the same chance to be seen", and the plans are priced per country by local demand.

So the first agencies on a listing page are not the highest scoring. They are the companies paying for the spotlight, in an order that rotates by design, and the rest follow. Nothing about that is hidden, and it reflects nothing bad about the agencies that pay. It does mean the top of a page answers who subscribes before it answers who is good.

The plans change the profile itself as well. The paid ones add profile statistics, website links and more services and locations, and the October announcement lists "a profile without competitor suggestions" among them. A free profile, then, can show you similar providers beside the agency you opened, and may carry no link to its website. Neither is a mark against the agency; find its site yourself.

TechBehemoths also publishes Top 10 pages for a service in a city, titled with the month, such as November 2026. Each explains its picks in a short list: a clear focus on the service, expertise, reputation, reviews, portfolio and communication, ending with "Handpicked": "These companies have been selected by the TechBehemoths team and meet the selection criteria." Its terms, in force since 15 October 2026, describe the same lists another way: "Top 10 is a limited sponsorship product offering a seat on a per-city, per-category list", paid in advance, and "positions within a Top 10 list rotate so that each seat receives comparable exposure." So a seat on a Top 10 page may have been bought, its position is a rotation rather than a rank, and the page we read did not say which seats were sponsored. Check the service is the one you are hiring for, then judge each company on its profile.

TechBehemoths has described its verification badge differently three weeks apart. Its announcement of 21 October 2026 says the rebuild "gives every listed company free verification" and that "Verification, shown as a blue badge, is free and done once", adding that unverified companies are hidden by default on its new map. Its announcement of 10 November 2026 lists "the Verified Blue Badge" among the features of the CORE and PRO plans.

Both may be true of different things, but the announcements do not say so. Read the badge narrowly either way. It says the platform has checked something about who the company is or who controls the listing. It says nothing about the quality of the work, and a profile without it is not, on that evidence alone, a problem.

Two other lines on a profile say more. Each profile shows which team member manages it and when they were last online, which TechBehemoths offers as a way to avoid unresponsive vendors. And the written summary under a profile's EXO Score says whether ownership has been checked against the company's own web domain ("domain-verified ownership", in a summary we read on 14 November 2026). Ownership matched to the company's own domain tells you someone inside the company controls the listing. A manager last online a year ago tells you a message sent through the profile may sit unread.

TechBehemoths' terms say "Reviews must reflect genuine, first-hand experience", and that nobody may "submit, solicit, incentivise, or publish false, fake, inflated, or misleading reviews". The platform "may moderate, decline, label, or remove Content, and may use reputable third-party sources and automated tools to assess authenticity." TechBehemoths reported in May 2025 that flagged reviews are checked by hand against the project summary, the services provided, the timeline and budget, the rating and the written feedback. Its awards announcements of late 2025 said 47% of the reviews submitted that year were rejected for verification issues.

Not every review on a profile was collected there. The rebuild brought "review imports from Google, Trustpilot, Clutch and other platforms", and the November announcement describes profiles carrying "client reviews and ratings from TechBehemoths, Google, and Trustpilot." An imported review passed another platform's checks, not TechBehemoths', and those checks differ: how a Trustpilot score is put together and what a Google Business Profile shows about an agency each have their own answer.

Every platform built on invited reviews has the same shape, and TechBehemoths' own research shows it. Its survey of 2,300 IT companies in August 2025 found that 56.6% request a review after every project; 11.7% regularly offer incentives such as discounts or gifts, and another 11.7% do so occasionally. The same survey said firms with five or more reviews had a 78% higher chance of receiving inquiries, which is why agencies collect them. Verification can confirm a reviewer is a real client. It cannot show how the agency chose whom to ask, which is why reading a Clutch profile also starts with the details under each review rather than the stars.

So read every review, not the average. Note where it came from, its date, the reviewer's role and company, and what the project actually was. A marketplace account is a long engagement, so praise for a three month website build tells you less than a review written after a year of weekly reporting.

The TechBehemoths Awards cost nothing to enter. The platform's announcements say "Participation is free of charge, with no nomination or submission fees", and one of the ten principles it published in October 2026 is "Awards are won, never sold." What wins them is spelled out in its announcement of 30 October 2025 for that year's edition.

First, eligibility. Only companies whose profile score was rated "Above Average," "Strong," or "Excellent" went through to the vote. Each competed in one country, where its main headquarters is, and in up to three of 20 service categories. Then the result: "50% public votes, validated through email, and 50% TechBehemoths' internal evaluation." The internal half used authenticated reviews, profile content consistency, visit frequency, average time spent on profile pages, volume of commercial inquiries, and ongoing upkeep of the profile.

Look at what that measures. Half of an award is how many people an agency could bring to vote, and TechBehemoths' advice to nominees was to ask "past clients, partners, and employees" for support, through a widget on the agency's own website and links on social media. Each person may vote once per company, and the platform filters duplicate and suspicious votes. The other half is mostly how much attention the profile draws and how well it is kept. Paid placement is not on that list, but visits and inquiries are, and placement is what produces visits.

The numbers give the scale. The 2025 edition evaluated 54,150 companies and projected about 1,900 winners, 3.5% of them. TechBehemoths' recap of the edition reports 2,099 winners out of 4,358 nominated companies, so roughly half of the companies that reached the vote won something. An award is a real filter against the whole directory and a loose one among its active profiles.

Read a badge for its year, its country and its category. A 2025 award for web development in another country says little about Amazon advertising for a brand in the United States. Awards also count toward the EXO Score, so the same recognition can be counted twice on one profile.

TechBehemoths offers buyers a project brief: describe the project once and "receive up to five free quotes within an hour." On the other side, its paid plans include "a monthly allowance of project brief unlocks with buyers' direct contacts", which the platform presents as a bonus rather than the core of a plan.

So a brief is the directory working as designed, and the first replies will tend to come from subscribed agencies with unlocks to spend and someone online to spend them. Five fast quotes are a sample of who was able to answer, not a ranking of who is best. Use the brief to widen the list, expect your contact details to travel with it, and judge the replies with the same checks as everything else.

One: search every service that could hold your work, Amazon Advertising and eCommerce among them, and keep the agencies whose services and projects name marketplace work. Two: note which agencies sit in the featured and paid sections, and judge them on the same evidence as the rest. Three: read how the profile was claimed and when its manager was last online. Four: open every review and note its source, its date, the reviewer's role and the schedule and communication scores. Five: read an award by year, country and category, remembering that half of it is votes. Six: take the two strongest profiles to a call and ask what no profile holds: who will run your account day to day, and what happened on an account the agency lost.

That last check is where every directory ends. The full guide to choosing an agency covers what to ask on that call and the answers that should worry you.

TechBehemoths is a good place to widen a list, and more candid than most directories about where its money comes from: the score is not for sale, the spotlight is. Each directory asks for its own reading. A GoodFirms listing is scored against five published criteria, an Agency Spotter listing carries a commercial layer of promoted placement and lead data, and TechBehemoths puts paid tiers above a merit score and gives awards that are half a vote.

When the brief is someone to run the marketplace operation itself, across Amazon, Walmart, eBay, TikTok Shop and Shopify, that is the work of our marketplace management team. The useful first conversation is about an account like yours, and a profile can start it but never replace it.