You pick your agent blind. The engine hands you the record.
Choosing representation is one of the highest-stakes decisions of a career, and a player mostly makes it blind: on reputation, on who recruited him hardest, on who promised the most. In football the asymmetry runs harder than in any sport, because the agent does not just negotiate a contract, he engineers the move, across borders, across leagues, across a global market the player cannot see. This surface flips that. It rates the agency as an institution from its public client-outcome record, for the player and his advisors, on the same doctrine the engine uses everywhere: revealed outcomes, never promises, confidence as the unit, and never one collapsed number. It is the companion to Cross-League Placement: that read tells you where to move, this one tells you who should move you.
Rate the agency on what it did, not on what it says it will do.
A player picks his agent on the pitch he is given: the reputation, the promises, the star names on the wall. The engine ignores all of it and reads the revealed record instead, the same way Club Intelligence rates a club and Manager Intelligence rates a manager. Six performance dimensions, each reported separately with its own confidence, never collapsed into a single score.
This is the same evaluate-the-evaluator lens the engine turns on every actor around the player, pointed now at the person he trusts most and understands least. It does not tell him the agency is good or bad; it tells him what the agency has actually done for players like him, dimension by dimension, with a confidence on each. The pitch is what they say. The record is what they did.
Illustrative engine read on the real Agency Intelligence doctrine (rating the agency as an institution from its public client-outcome record, revealed outcomes never promises, six dimensions each with its own confidence, never collapsed into one number). Composite agency, demonstration figures.
In football the transfer is the product. The engine can grade it.
The football agent does not just paper a deal, he moves a player across a global market, so the move itself is the thing to grade, and this is where the engine reads what the public sources cannot. It grades every placement against the level ladder, every move against whether it advanced the client's real trajectory, and every deal against the engine's own valuation.
Placement, move quality, and deal value are the football-native reads, and they only exist because the engine already carries its own value and projection: it knows what a client was worth and where a move should have taken him, so it can say whether the agency delivered or just transacted. An agency that lands clients in strong leagues at real roles, times the moves to their careers, and beats the market on the deal is doing the job. One that moves clients laterally for a fee is not. Grade the move, not the motion.
Illustrative engine read on the real football-native performance reads (cross-border placement graded against KLVN, move quality against realised trajectory and peak-timing, deal quality against the engine's own Market Value and Wage reads). Composite agency, demonstration figures.
Will you be a priority or an afterthought, and can you trust them.
A great agency in the abstract can still be the wrong agency for you, and a clean record on outcomes means little if the integrity is not there. So the engine adds three player-facing reads: whether this specific player will be a priority, whether the agency is trustworthy, and, because in the boutique model one person is the agency, who actually holds the record.
Put together, the fit read, the integrity axis, and the portability layer turn a rating into a decision the player can actually use: not just how good an agency is, but whether it will prioritise him, whether he can trust it, and whose record he is really buying. The output names the trade-off in a line, elite cross-border placement, boutique priority, clean integrity, thin sample, rather than a single grade that hides all of it. Hire the record that fits you, and make sure you can trust it.
Illustrative engine read on the real priority-fit (volume versus boutique), integrity axis (licensing, conduct and conflicts, disciplinary history, transparency, source-tiered reputation), and individual-agent portability layer, read-only on the KR. Composite agency and agent, demonstration figures.
A player chooses representation on the pitch he is given, the reputation, the recruiter, the promise, and in football the asymmetry is at its worst, because the agent engineers a move across a market the player cannot see. So the engine flips it and reads the revealed record instead: where the agency actually landed its clients across borders, whether the moves raised their real trajectories and beat the market on the deal, whether careers rose under it, and whether clients stayed. It grades all of that against its own value and projection, the reads the public sources cannot produce, keeps the six dimensions and the integrity axis separate rather than collapsing them, tells the player whether he will be a priority or an afterthought, tracks whether the record lives in the building or walks out with one name, and never lets any of it move his own rating. The pitch is what they promise. The record is what they did. Hire the record that fits you.
Hire the record, not the pitch. And the one that fits you.
Representation rates the agency from its public client-outcome record, grades the moves it engineered against the engine's own value, reads priority fit and integrity, tracks the agent's traveling fingerprint, and never touches a rating.