Your Quality Score reflects the overall quality and consistency of your participation on Connect. It determines your Priority Access — how early you're offered available projects.

Priority Access tiers

Your score places you in one of five tiers:

• Preferred — highest priority; you're first in line for available projects.
• Standard — moderate priority.
• Limited — reduced priority.
• Recovery — minimal priority.
• Restricted — not currently prioritized for projects. You can still log in, and you may occasionally be eligible for a project. Completing projects successfully helps raise your score over time and can move you into a higher tier.

What Affects Your Quality Score

Raises your score

• Getting your submitted work approved
• Completing projects successfully and consistently over time
• Keeping your "About You" profile up to date 

Lowers your score

• Having submitted work rejected
• Letting assignments time out
• AI-detected responses
• Having your submissions or conversations flagged for quality
• Failing a screener
• Holding multiple rarely-qualifying screening criteria

How to improve your score

The most reliable way to raise your score is steady, quality participation over time: complete the projects you're eligible for, submit careful work, and avoid returns and rejections. Scores update as your activity is recorded, so improvement is gradual rather than immediate.