Pearl is the national leader in home performance ratings. We measure all aspects of a home's performance — safety, comfort, operational efficiency, resilience, and energy management — and provide homeowners with actionable insights on what's most important to them, whether they're buying, selling, or renovating.
At Pearl, we envision a future where homeowners drive energy transformation — where personal benefits line up with environmental progress.
To get there, we've made it a mission to shift the priorities of homeowners and the real estate market toward valuing performance features that enhance home comfort, safety, and cost-efficiency.
Pearl's tools to help homeowners make the best decisions possible about their homes' performance. Pearl's Score and App measure and verify home performance across five categories that impact day-to-day living and home value. Our Certification captures the value added by those performance upgrades and makes it visible for buyer, sellers, and appraisers.
Our certification platform and best-in-class home energy modeling tech drive home performance insights that help equipment manufacturers, contractors, real estate agents, multiple listing services and home search platforms, and public programs deliver better value to their homeowner customers.
Cynthia Adams and Robin LeBaron met during a federal energy efficiency program, where they discovered a shared passion for aligning home performance improvements with financial and environmental benefits. They'd both observed that investments in energy-efficient home features had been held back because those features were invisible in real estate transactions. There was a significant market gap here.
Pearl’s scoring and certification system was designed to make those improvements visible by translating technical home performance features into tangible value for homeowners, focusing on what matters most to them — comfort, health, quality of life, and financial returns.
The benefits are three-fold:
From its initial concept, Pearl grew into a venture-backed company recognized by key industry players, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Its certification standards have been incorporated into federal legislation, demonstrating its industry influence.
Pearl is proud to partner with industry-leading companies, nonprofits, public entities, and trade organizations.
Recognition by EPA, DOE, and others
Pearl is a proud partner of both the EPA and the DOE, and is a national program partner to ENERGY STAR® Home Upgrade. Pearl has also been accepted into the National Association of REALTORS’® prestigious REACH Technology Accelerator, and we hold a licensing agreement with the Appraisal Institute to populate its valuable report.
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy recognize the important contribution Pearl has made to the home performance industry, including transforming the market for home performance products and services, partnering with appraisers, realtors and home improvement trades, and strategically leveraging the ENERGY STAR brand."
Pearl’s methodology is built on a foundation of technical rigor, data integrity, and industry-aligned standards. Leveraging our team’s deep expertise in building science, data modeling, and residential performance, we transform raw home data into actionable insights that serve multiple stakeholders—from contractors and homeowners to real estate professionals and appraisers. Our proprietary scoring system and certification process are rooted in transparent criteria, third-party verification, and alignment with national standards such as RESO’s Real Estate Standards and ENERGY STAR. With a robust infrastructure for data collection, structuring, and analysis, Pearl ensures that home performance improvements are not only well-documented, but also recognized, valued, and trusted across the market.
Join a dynamic team of building scientists, engineers, creatives, and visionaries making a big difference in the world. Pearl team members enjoy superb benefits, a flexible, fully remote working environment, and the reward of huge individual impact. Why not join us?
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Pearl is transforming the housing market by standardizing how home performance is measured across the country.
