Methodology
This page explains exactly how each non-obvious field on Entio is computed — what's verified government data, what's inferred, and how confident we are in each.
Industry classification
A company's industry tag is assigned by matching keywords in its registered English name (e.g. "freight" or "logistics" → Logistics & Freight Forwarding). This is a low-confidence heuristic, not a verified government classification — the Companies Registry doesn't publish an official industry code for most companies. Every classified company page discloses the source ("keyword_heuristic_v0") and a numeric confidence score so this is never mistaken for verified data.
District assignment
A company's district is determined by matching its official registered office address (from the Companies Registry's address API) against a list of known Hong Kong neighbourhood and street names for each of the 18 District Council districts. This is a real text match against the actual registered address, not an estimate — though a small number of addresses don't match any known area and are left unassigned.
TCSP licence cross-referencing
We match each company's exact registered address against the Companies Registry's public Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) licensee list. Because that dataset doesn't publish a BRN, matching is by exact address text only, and we deliberately don't attempt a fuzzy or partial match — a false "licensed" claim would be worse than no match at all.
Data Completeness score
Shown on every company page, this 0-100 score reflects how much verifiable information we've documented about a company — currently based on whether an industry has been classified and whether website/description enrichment exists — not a judgment of the business itself. It is not a credit score, risk score, or quality rating: Hong Kong's open registry data doesn't include financial filings, so no such score would be honest.
Address romanization
Some companies file their registered address with the Companies Registry in Chinese. We first translate known place names (all 18 districts, common neighbourhoods, and every gazetted street name that appears in our dataset, verified against the Lands Department's official list) to their real English names, and only fall back to Cantonese Jyutping phonetic romanization for the remaining, un-matched proper nouns — never Mandarin pinyin, which isn't how Hong Kong addresses are conventionally romanized.