Badges

A badge is never awarded by hand and never sold. Each one is read off the record and the generated lists on every build, so a listing that stops qualifying loses it on the next build. Marketplaces hold none.

Badges held 76Updated 21 Oct 2026

Top Fractional {Role} 2026

The ten firms and solo practitioners at the top of a role page. The top three on a role and region page hold the region version, such as Top Fractional COO in the UK. Order is the published listing rule, so the badge follows the record. Marketplaces do not take a place.

{Industry} Specialist

A firm that names one industry and only that industry.

PE Portfolio Operator

A firm that works with PE-backed companies and names at least two clients on its own site.

VC-Backed Specialist

A firm whose only stated stage is VC-backed companies.

SaaS CFO, Ecommerce CFO

A fractional CFO firm that names SaaS or ecommerce among at most two industries.

Equity Partner

A firm that publishes an equity plus cash pricing model.

No listing holds this badge yet.

Also Coaches

A firm with at least one coaching program, course or community listed here.

Top {Topic} Coaching Program 2026

The five programs at the top of a topic coaching page, by the published listing rule.

Editor's Pick

The firms that appear most often across the independent and firm-written lists we read while building the seed data.