Built because the most important
thing about an apartment is invisible.
Walk Score tells you about the neighborhood. HowLoud tells you about street noise. Nothing tells you what happens inside the walls. That's the gap we built QuietScore™ to fill.
Transparency is the product.
QuietScore™ is built entirely on public data. Construction records from county assessors. Noise complaint history from city 311 systems. What thousands of actual residents said they heard, extracted from public reviews using our patent-pending NLP algorithm.
The methodology isn't a black box. The data isn't proprietary. We're not making secret judgments about buildings — we're connecting information that already exists publicly and presenting it in a way renters can actually use before they sign.
We're also honest about where we are. The scores will keep improving as we add more data sources and refine the algorithm. That's the honest state of QuietScore™ today — and we think renters deserve that honesty more than they deserve a number that pretends to be more certain than it is.
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Public Data Only
Every signal in the score comes from publicly available sources. County assessors, city 311 systems, resident reviews. Nothing hidden, nothing proprietary about the inputs.
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Acoustic Science
The scoring reflects how acoustic engineers actually define interior quiet — construction materials, complaint patterns, what residents report hearing. We built toward those standards.
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Always Improving
More data sources, deeper complaint history, expert validation. We're actively working with acoustic engineers to sharpen the methodology. The score gets better every month.
Acoustic science, at scale.
We've studied how acoustic engineers, architects, and building scientists define interior quiet. What construction materials matter. What IIC and STC ratings mean for real residents. What complaint patterns reveal about a building's actual acoustic performance.
Acoustic engineering has established standards for this. QuietScore™ is built toward those standards — making professional acoustic knowledge accessible at scale without requiring a tapping machine in every unit.
We're actively in conversations with acoustic engineers to validate and improve our methodology. If you work in architectural acoustics or building science, we'd genuinely like to hear from you.
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We've referenced acoustic experts, architects, and building scientists on what quiet actually means — and we built the score to reflect that knowledge. The gap between what renters can know at lease-signing and what acoustic professionals know about a building is exactly what QuietScore™ exists to close.
Clayton O'Leary
Founder · QuietCert LLC
We want to hear from you.
QuietScore™ is being built in the open and we genuinely want feedback from the people who matter most to getting this right.
Acoustic Engineers
Work in architectural acoustics?
If you work in IIC/STC testing, architectural acoustics, or building science and you see something in our methodology worth discussing, we'd love to connect. We're actively seeking expert validation and advisory partnerships.
Reach out directly →Renters
Lived the noise problem?
If you've moved into an apartment that turned out to be louder than expected — or found one that surprised you with how quiet it was — tell us your story. Real experiences make the score better.
Share your experience →Investors
See the same gap we do?
Interior acoustic quality is the largest unscored variable in residential rental decisions. No platform addresses it at scale. We're raising a pre-seed round and would welcome the conversation.
Let's talk →Property Managers
Your building already has a score.
If your building scores well, noise-sensitive renters — the ones who stay longest and complain least — should be able to find it. Feature your building and put your QuietScore™ where renters are looking.
See founding partner details →Direct contact
clayton@getquietscore.com