Pearl is the nation's first independent standards and ratings organization for home performance — measuring what's been invisible in real estate for too long.
Home Performance
Pearl SCORE™ rates every home on a 1-to-1,000 scale across five
pillars: Safety, Comfort, Operations, Resilience, and Energy.
Together, these five dimensions capture what it's actually like to live in a home — beyond price, location, and curb appeal.
Mission
Every home has a performance story: how it protects the health of its occupants, how comfortable it is year round, how it can handle environmental stress, how expensive it is to run. For too long, the pieces of that story have lived in scattered places — public records, utility data, inspection reports, homeowner file cabinets — never organized into a clear picture. Pearl exists to make the performance story of every home visible to the one party who needs it most — the buyer.
Certified B-Corporation
As a certified B-Corporation, Pearl is held to high standards of accountability and impact. Fewer than 4,000 companies worldwide have earned this distinction. For us, it means we answer not only to shareholders, but also to the homeowners and communities we serve.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy recognize the important contribution Pearl has made to the home performance industry, including transforming the market for home performance products and services, partnering with appraisers, realtors, and home improvement trades, strategically leveraging the ENERGY STAR® brand.
Pearl works in partnership with the most influential organizations in housing and energy: the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National Association of Realtors, Appraisal Institute, and MLS systems nationwide. In addition, we partner with leading home performance brands and hundreds of contractors and builders, major HVAC manufacturers, and every major residential rating service, including ENERGY STAR. As an independent B-Corporation, Pearl offers unbiased expertise free from political cycles or marketplace conflicts, making us the trusted standard for home performance nationwide.
Pearl gives buyers a clearer picture of how a home performs before they commit, and gives homeowners a framework for understanding their home's performance over time.
Pearl works alongside the professionals who shape home transactions — agents, lenders, insurers, appraisers, inspectors, contractors, and manufacturers — to bring performance into every conversation.
Cynthia Adams
Co-founder and CEO
Robin LeBaron
Co-founder and President
Pearl began with a simple but powerful insight: the features that make homes safer, more comfortable, and less costly to own were invisible in real estate transactions. Buyers couldn’t see them, agents couldn’t value them, and sellers couldn’t capture their worth.
Co-founders Cynthia Adams and Robin LeBaron approached this problem from very different worlds—Cynthia from residential property development and home-performance initiatives, Robin from affordable housing and federal research—but they shared the same vision: to make how a home performs visible and measurable — so buyers, homeowners, and the market can all see it clearly.
Pearl's solution gives buyers the data they need to evaluate homes before they commit, and gives homeowners a clearer view of their home's performance at any stage. The result is a housing market that’s clearer, fairer, and more rewarding for everyone.
Today, Pearl’s standards are recognized by the ENERGY STAR® program, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Association of REALTORS®, and are even incorporated into federal legislation. The outcome is a win-win: buyers make smarter choices, homeowners build equity while improving their living conditions, and the real estate market gains a new level of transparency.
Join a dynamic team of building scientists, engineers, creatives, and visionaries making a big difference in the world. Pearl team members enjoy superb benefits, a flexible, fully remote working environment, and the reward of huge individual impact.
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Pearl has scored every single-family home in America. Now we're building tools that help buyers see how homes perform and help homeowners keep their performance record current. Sign up to be the first to know what’s next.
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