How Exio Suggest is scored

Exio Suggest is the score on our ranked project lists. It is not a brochure grade, and it is not a place a developer can buy. It is the public result of a 50-point property audit, written with founder Pinkesh Mewada. Before a project in Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar is offered to a buyer, the audit asks whether the home can be checked, on paper and on site, by someone who has actually built buildings.

Why a home needs a score at all

A home is the largest payment most families will ever make. A share investor can read a standard set of figures first. A buyer in an experience centre is more often handed a finish, a view, and a promise. Marketing can sit on top of a delay, a wasteful layout, or a legal problem a site visit does not show. RERA registration is a legal duty, and it matters, but it is a baseline rather than a mark of quality. A registered project can still carry a weak plan, a late handover, or space the family cannot live in. Inside Ahmedabad, one side of a road can be a different investment from the other. Exio launched in 2024 so families would spend less time on duplicate ads, hidden costs, and broken promises. It works in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, shows audited projects, and connects buyers with developers directly. Exio Suggest turns that standard into one number.

Five pillars, one percentage

The audit groups its checks into five pillars. They are not equal. A swimming pool cannot repair a title defect, and a strong pin on the map cannot repair a building that was not built as approved.

Pillar	What it protects	Weight
RERA and legal clearance	Whether you can own what is being sold	20%
Builder track record and financial stability	Whether this developer has delivered, and can fund this building	20%
Construction quality and design	Whether the home is engineered to last, and the plan is honest	25%
Amenities and daily use	Whether the facilities can be lived with after handover	15%
Location, micro-market, and investment case	Whether the place and the price make sense together	20%

Construction quality carries the most weight, at 25 percent. Legal clearance and construction are also gates. A project below 70 percent on either pillar is not certified, however strong the location, the amenities, or the sales story. Held to this test, close to 40 percent of audited projects are not approved. The usual reasons are layouts sold differently from the approved plans, handovers late by more than 18 months without a valid cause, heavy debt on the project land, or floor plans loaded with super built-up area the buyer cannot use. The score is not for sale. Exio does not take payment to change it.

RERA and legal clearance, 20 percent

This pillar can end the audit. If the legal position is not sound, the project is not certified. The published checks are:

1. Current RERA registration, including extensions, for the tower or phase being sold.
2. Clear, marketable title, with a search of at least 30 years.
3. Environmental clearance where the law requires it.
4. A commencement certificate that covers the floors under construction.
5. Litigation and complaints in RERA, consumer forums, and the High Court.
6. Any joint development agreement, for a revenue or space share that could stall handover.
7. Airport, fire, and pollution-control no-objection certificates, where they apply.
8. Land use that matches the master plan, including non-agricultural conversion.
9. Recorded water, electricity, and municipal sewage permissions.
10. Flats that match the municipal drawings.

The builder, 20 percent

A developer’s past work is the best public clue to the next building. The audit measures delivery, not the language on a hoarding.

• Speed from the commencement certificate to the occupancy certificate on recent projects.
• Handover against the original promise, including how often a RERA extension was used.
• Whether maintenance money, drawings, and day-to-day running pass to the residents’ association.
• Debt, assets already pledged, and whether buyer funds stay in that project’s escrow.

Construction and design, 25 percent

This is the heaviest pillar because a home has to stand for decades. The published checks move from drawings to the site.

• Carpet area against built-up area, so a plan is marked down when it charges for space the family cannot use.
• Concrete grade, steel certificates, and third-party structural reports, including seismic design.
• A site walk while the work is still open: masonry, expansion joints, waterproofing, and service routes.

Amenities you can live with, 15 percent

A long amenity list can become an expensive problem after families move in. The audit asks who pays, and whether the space is real.

• Monthly maintenance from the equipment, not the brochure. A large water body or a heavy central system can lock residents into a bill they cannot carry.
• Usable green space per person. A driveway or a token setback is not a park.
• Lift speed, visitor parking against resident parking, electric-vehicle charging, and sound between homes.

The place and the price, 20 percent

The last pillar puts the building in its city. For Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, that means the street, the next roads, and prices people have actually paid nearby.

• Highways, main roads, and public transport that exists or is committed, including metro and BRTS corridors.
• Authority plans, including AUDA, for flyovers, drainage, and zoning that will change how the area lives.
• Price against registered sales nearby, not only the asking rate at launch.
• A five-year and ten-year view of jobs, offices, industry, rent, and resale. It is a reasoned view of the micro-market, not a promised return.

How the percentage is worked out

The Exio Suggest percentage is the weighted total of the five pillar scores. Legal clearance counts for 20 percent, the builder for 20 percent, construction for 25 percent, amenities for 15 percent, and location for 20 percent. A strong amenity score cannot hide a weak structure score. A reader should be able to see which pillar held the number down before they sign anything.

The checks above are the ones Exio has published by name. The framework they belong to is the 50-point audit. The longer account of each check is in How the Exio Rating Actually Works: Inside the 50-Point Audit.

What the score is, and what it is not

For a careful developer, certification shows the file already laid out, so a buyer spends less time wondering what is hidden. A developer can ask for the audit. An independent panel reads the papers, visits the site, and publishes the result on the project.

An Exio Suggest score is a comparative opinion from this 50-point framework. It is not a legal opinion, not an architectural warranty, and not a guaranteed return. Ratings use public records, including filings developers place on portals such as Gujarat RERA, and, where a site visit is done, what the engineer could see on that day. Buyers and investors should still take their own advice from a lawyer and do their own checks before they pay.