{
  "slug": "portable-reputation",
  "title": "Your five star rating is not yours",
  "summary": "Reputation is the most valuable asset a platform worker holds, and it cannot leave the platform. Portability is a receipt problem, not a score problem.",
  "lede": "A driver with five years, twelve thousand trips and a 4.97 average opens an account on a competing app and starts at zero. Reputation is the most valuable asset a platform worker holds, and it is the one asset they cannot take with them. That is not an oversight. It is the product.",
  "date": "2026-09-15",
  "reading_time": "18 min read",
  "category": "Platforms",
  "tags": [
    "portable reputation",
    "gig economy",
    "platform work directive",
    "data portability",
    "verified work history",
    "work receipts"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Portable%20Reputation/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/portable-reputation.html",
  "wordcount": 4274,
  "related": [
    "verified-work-passport",
    "gig-account-renting",
    "verify-without-calling-issuer"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}