Four ingredients, 100 points
Every spot on BestSeat gets a laptop score from 0 to 100. It's built from four things that decide whether you can actually work somewhere: Wi-Fi (up to 30 points), power outlets (up to 30), noise (up to 25) and opening hours (up to 15).
We weight Wi-Fi and power the most because they're the hardest to work around — you can bring headphones for noise, but you can't bring your own internet.
Every fact has a source
Each detail that feeds the score links to where it came from: the venue's own website, its Google listing, a review, or a directory. If we can't find a published claim about a spot's Wi-Fi, that part of the score stays low and the detail reads "Not verified yet".
That honesty cuts both ways. A spot with a low score isn't necessarily bad — it might just be undocumented. When visitors or owners send us corrections with a source, the score updates.
What the score is not
The laptop score is not a Google star rating, and it doesn't measure coffee quality, food or service. A five-star café can score poorly for laptop work, and a plain library branch can score well. It answers one question only: can I sit here and get work done?
See it in action
Open any spot page to see the score broken down by category, with each fact's source linked line by line. If you know a detail we've missed, the spot page has a way to report a correction — signed-in visitors can suggest fixes, and we review each one.