The Beaumont Index is built by Chris Beaumont, drawing on a career spent inside professional football's scouting and analysis operations, not just writing about them from the outside.
Some current scouting and consultancy work is undertaken under a separate agency name, kept confidential at the request of its clients.
Most football content splits into two camps: numbers with no judgement, or opinion with no evidence behind it. Recruitment departments and serious analysts work in neither. They work in structured judgement, tested evidence, and a process that can be defended when challenged.
The Beaumont Index applies that same discipline to a wider audience. Ten weighted pillars, one defensible score, no single variable deciding the outcome. Not a prediction. A structured answer to where a club actually stands.
Every report follows the same six-stage process, described in full on the methodology page. Reports are produced using an AI-assisted research and drafting pipeline against real football data, with every report reviewed and edited by hand before publication. We say this plainly because a serious reader deserves to know how an assessment was built, not just what it concludes.