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Foundever — data sheet
- Headquarters
- Luxembourg — Foundever Group, registered office 18 Rue Robert Stumper, L-2557 Luxembourg, RCS Luxembourg B171740; Sitel–Sykes lineage, operating since 1985
- Operating since
- 1985
- Score
- 74 of 100 · rank #3 of 8 · tied with Simply Contact
- Tier
- Leader
- Delivery Proof (of 45)
- 32.4
- Capability Fit (of 55)
- 41.6
Evidence on file
Each line is a datapoint with its grade. Grades are the ones the anchors act on: a sub-criterion scored 5 requires at least one E1 or E2 source, and evidence that is entirely E3 caps the sub-criterion at 3.
- Luxembourg — Foundever Group, registered office 18 Rue Robert Stumper, L-2557 Luxembourg, RCS Luxembourg B171740 (foundever.com legal notice, accessed 23 Aug 2026) E1
- Sitel lineage to 1985; ~150k employees, 45 countries E1E2
- Everest CXM PEAK Matrix Global Leader E1
- Effectively no Clutch/G2 review presence — confirmed absence, not unmeasured; enterprise cases largely anonymized E2
- Glassdoor 3.9 across ~23,000 reviews — lands exactly in the 3.5–3.9 anchor; recurring low-pay/attrition themes in review text E2
- Massive multi-hub redundancy E2
- 60+ languages, 45 countries, follow-the-sun — all corroborated E1E2
- Enterprise cert stack assumed but scope-per-hub unverified in the dry run; COPC site status unchecked E5
- High minimums, enterprise procurement, opaque commercial terms — scores exactly as anchored E5
Criterion scores
Sub-criterion anchor scores in criterion order, with the weighted criterion total computed from them. Multiply each anchor by its sub-criterion weight over five and sum: that is the whole arithmetic, and it is why this total can be checked without taking anyone's word.
| Code | Criterion | Sub-criterion anchors | Weighted | Max | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | Independent client evidence | 3 / 3 / 2 | 7.6 | 14 | As written, pre-amendment. See Finding 1: A1 structurally breaks for enterprise providers. The v1.1 equivalence rule anchors A1.1 and A1.2 at 3 on analyst-evaluation client-reference validation. |
| A2 | Market presence & tenure | 5 / 5 / 5 | 8 | 8 | |
| A3 | Certifications & compliance | 3 / 4 / 3 | 8 | 12 | Pre-v1.1 four-sub-criterion structure. |
| A4 | Delivery stability | 3 / 5 | 4.8 | 6 | |
| A5 | Transparency & verifiability | 4 / 4 | 4 | 5 | Pre-v1.1 structure including an RFI sub-criterion. Enterprises typically skip small-publication RFIs — expected. The published v1.0 appendix removes the questionnaire entirely. |
| B1 | Service scope & channels | 5 / 4 / 4 | 7 | 8 | |
| B2 | Language & geographic reach | 5 / 5 / 5 | 10 | 10 | |
| B3 | Quality management system | 4 / 3 / 4 | 7.4 | 10 | |
| B4 | Security & data protection operations | 4 / 3 / 4 | 6 | 8 | |
| B5 | Flexibility & commercial model | 1 / 4 / 1 | 2.6 | 7 | |
| B6 | Technology & AI operations | 4 / 3 / 3 | 4.6 | 7 | |
| B7 | Vertical expertise | 4 / 4 | 4 | 5 |
Axis A subtotal 32.4 of 45 · Axis B subtotal 41.6 of 55 · total 74 of 100. Each weighted figure is (anchor score ÷ 5) × sub-criterion weight, summed — the rule printed in the appendix.
Flags and open questions
- Finding 1: A1 (14 pts) craters every enterprise incumbent on review-platform absence alone. The v1.1 equivalence rule was adopted before any full scoring and logged; changing it after scores existed would have looked like tuning.
- Certification scope per hub unverified.
- Largest remaining evidence gap: Certification scope per hub unpublished; commercial terms unpublished
Challenge this sheet
Every line above is meant to be checkable. If a datapoint is wrong, out of date, or missing a certificate identifier we could not find, the corrections process is open: submit the evidence and the score is re-derived through the anchors. Facts are correctable; scores follow facts. Accepted corrections are logged in the changelog.