Badges and awards
How your community earns seasonal Milvao badges from measured results, how the Milvao team checks each one, and how to show them on your public pages.
Milvao gives communities seasonal badges for what actually happens in them: members who get the introductions they asked for, members who answer offers quickly, introductions people say helped, and steady growth in complete profiles. A badge is only ever worked out from Milvao's own records. Nobody can pay for one, ask for one or type one in.
Badges are per season, which is a calendar quarter in India time (for example Q3 2026 is July to September 2026). Past badges stay in your community's history.
The badges
| Badge | How it is earned |
|---|---|
| Top Connector | The highest share of confirmed requests that ended in an introduction both people received. At least half of the quarter's confirmed requests must end that way. |
| Fast Responder | The shortest median time for members to accept or decline the requests offered to them, and no more than 6 hours. |
| Highly Rated Introductions | The highest share of "Did you connect?" answers that say Yes, it helped. At least 60 percent of answers must say so. |
| Rising Community | The fastest growth in members who joined and completed a profile, quarter on quarter. At least 25 percent growth, from at least 20 members at the start of the quarter. |
| Specialty and region | For communities that earned Top Connector or Highly Rated Introductions, when one skill clearly leads, for example Top Mentoring Network, North India. |
The full criteria, with every threshold, are public at milvao.com/badges.
How badges are worked out
- Size bands. Your community is compared only with communities of a similar size, by members with a completed profile at the end of the quarter: Small (under 50), Mid-size (50 to 199) and Large (200 or more). A community needs at least 10 members with a completed profile to earn any badge.
- Minimum activity. Each badge needs enough activity in the quarter, and the minimum grows with the size band. Top Connector, for example, needs 15 confirmed requests for a small community, 30 for a mid-size one and 60 for a large one. One lucky introduction never wins a badge.
- The bar. Above the minimum, the result must clear the badge's bar, such as half of confirmed requests ending in an introduction.
- Ranking. Within each size band, the top quarter of communities that pass the minimum and the bar earn the badge, at least one. Communities tied with the last place earn it too.
- Specialty and region. The leading skill must be listed by at least 40 percent of members with a completed profile and cover at least 40 percent of the quarter's introductions. A city or region is added when at least 60 percent of members with a home city live there; otherwise the badge has no region.
- Review. Milvao works out each quarter's badges on the 2nd of the following month (January, April, July and October). The Milvao team checks every badge before it appears and can withhold one, for example if requests came mostly from test accounts. A badge can also be revoked later after abuse.
What counts: only matched requests (not direct Contact requests) count for Top Connector; an introduction counts once both people received the other's contact. Guests who pressed Contact never count as members. Milvao's own sample and demo workspaces never take part.
See your badges
Open Settings → Badges. You see every approved badge with its quarter, size band, the date it was awarded, how it was earned and Your numbers (for example how many introductions came from how many confirmed requests). Your whole team can see this page, whether or not the badges are public. When a badge is approved, the owner gets an email (Badge awarded in Settings → Notifications).
If you have no badges yet, the page says so. Badges start once your community's activity meets the minimums, so new or small communities usually need a busy quarter first.
Show badges on your public page
Only the owner can change this.
- Open Settings → Badges.
- Switch on Show badges on my public page. It saves straight away.
While it is on:
- your approved badges appear in a Badges section on your mini-site (milvao.com/c/your-community), newest first;
- up to three badges appear on your card on milvao.com/communities, if your community is listed;
- each badge has its own verification page on milvao.com, and the embed code works.
Switch it off and badges leave your public pages within a few minutes. Their verification pages then answer "not found" and embedded images stop showing. Your team still sees them in Settings.
Show the numbers behind each badge
Off by default. Only the owner can change this.
- Open Settings → Badges.
- Switch on Show the numbers behind each badge. It saves straight away, with Undo in the message.
While it is on, and badges show on your public page, each badge's verification page adds a The numbers line, for example "77 introductions from 120 confirmed requests in Q3 2026 (64%)", and the badge image adds a short line such as "77 introductions". The image on your website updates by itself, so switching it off removes the numbers from embedded badges too, within a few minutes. The preview in Settings → Badges shows the image as visitors will see it.
The numbers are counts and percentages for the whole community in that quarter, never anything about a member. Each change is recorded in the activity log.
Put a badge on your website
With Show badges on my public page on, each badge in Settings → Badges has Embed on your website with a short HTML snippet and Copy embed code. Paste it into your website, newsletter or link page. It shows the badge image and links to the badge's verification page, so visitors can check it is real.
You can also share the verification page link on LinkedIn or in your WhatsApp group description. Use Verification page to open it, or Image to download the badge picture.
The verification page
Every badge has a page at milvao.com/badges/ followed by the badge's code. It shows your community's name, the badge, the quarter, the size band, the date it was awarded and the criteria in plain words, with "Awarded by Milvao from measured results". The Milvao team may add a short public note. Your numbers, such as how many introductions you made, show only if the owner turned on Show the numbers behind each badge. Verification pages of live badges are listed in milvao.com's sitemap, so search engines can find them.
If the Milvao team withholds or revokes a badge, its page and image say No longer valid, without your community's name, so a copied badge can't keep claiming an award.
Frequently asked questions
Can we pay for a badge or ask for one?
No. Badges come only from what happened in Milvao during the quarter. Plans, payments and requests to the Milvao team make no difference.
Why don't we have a badge yet?
Each badge needs a minimum amount of activity in the quarter, and your result must clear its bar and rank in the top quarter of your size band. During a pilot or a quiet quarter, that often isn't met yet. Nothing is shown until the numbers support it.
Do badges show our numbers?
Not unless you choose to. By default public pages show what a badge means, not the figures behind it, and only your team and the Milvao team see them. The owner can turn on Show the numbers behind each badge to add them to the verification page and the badge image.
Are badges public straight away?
No. A badge is public only after the Milvao team approves it and only while the owner keeps Show badges on my public page on. It is off by default.
What happens to last quarter's badges?
They stay in your history in Settings → Badges and on your mini-site (newest first, up to six on the mini-site), unless the Milvao team revokes one.
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