Transparency
How ranking works.
1. Who can appear
- The studio works in the language you chose.
- The studio is in your city, or works remotely if you said remote is fine.
2. How they are ordered
Each studio gets a score out of 100. The three highest are your matches.
| Expertise in your situation | 65 | Share of the topics from your answers the studio specialises in (e.g. impatriati, foreign VAT, tax returns, foreign investments). |
| Fee fit | 20 | Whether the studio’s typical annual fee overlaps the budget you gave. |
| Response time | 15 | The studio’s stated time to first reply. |
| Total | 100 |
3. What studios pay, and what it changes
Studios pay a flat annual fee to be listed. They never pay per client, per contact or per match: Italian professional rules do not allow it, and we would not want it anyway.
A studio can also buy a sponsored slot in its own city, at a flat price. It is shown in a separate box labelled “Sponsored”, only to people who chose that city and only if it passes the same filters as everyone else. At most 3 studios per city can be sponsored. Paying never changes the score or the order of your three matches.
4. What you pay
Nothing. Your matches, the studios’ contacts and sending your brief are all free.
5. What we are not
We do not give tax advice, and the “topics to raise” on your results are not a verdict on what applies to you. That is the studio’s job.
Version ranking-v3-2026-11