Where can your passport
actually take you?
Editorial One editorial scoring system — ours. You'll see exactly how it's calculated after.
Calculating your freedom...
How we calculate your Freedom Score.
The Freedom Score is editorial. We picked the dimensions, the questions, and the point values. The number is calculated honestly from your answers — but the methodology behind it is a view, not an external standard. Here's the full math, so you can judge it. You can also reweight what matters to you on the result screen — the score recomputes live based on your weights, not ours.
By default each dimension contributes equally (20%). One dimension (Passport Power) is computed from real visa data; the other four come from your quiz answers. If you reweight, the formula uses your weights instead — normalized so they always sum to 100%.
Final Score = Σ (subScore[dim] × weight[dim] ÷ Σ weights)
Why this spread: Single-source income is the #1 fragility for would-be movers — losing one income loses everything. We weight stream count, not stream size, because diversification is the bottleneck. "Building, none stable yet" gets partial credit because the intent is right but the income isn't there.
Why this spread: Remote earning ceiling matters for both runway and destination choice — it's the difference between "I can live in Lisbon" and "I can live anywhere." Bands roughly align with what BLS Occupational Employment Statistics and Upwork Freelance Forward report as common remote-friendly ranges. The jump from $2.5k to $5k is the steepest because that's where most digital-nomad visa income thresholds sit.
The only fully data-grounded dimension. We pull entry rules for your passport from the Freepare visa dataset (updated quarterly) and compute the share of tracked destinations open today. If your passport isn't in our tracked dataset, this dim returns "NOT TRACKED YET" on the bars and is excluded from the average — we don't fake a number.
Why this is inverted: A lower required budget = more flexibility (more destinations fit). $1k/mo opens 30+ countries; $4k/mo collapses to maybe 10. Higher comfort needs aren't bad — they just narrow the geographic option set.
Why this matters here: Move-readiness is the bottleneck for accepting most digital-nomad visa offers (Portugal D8: 30 days from approval). Without it, the budget question is academic.
Why this spread: Bands match common personal-finance norms — most US personal-finance frameworks (FIRE community, Ramit Sethi, NerdWallet) cite 3–6 months as the minimum emergency cushion. The jump to "over a year" is the steepest because that's where genuine geographic-mobility runway begins — you can take a bad month abroad without panic.
Why mortgage gets credit: An asset-backed mortgage isn't the same risk as consumer debt — it tends to come with offsetting equity. We don't penalize it the way we penalize stressful active debt.
Why this matters at all: Some users wonder why we score a feeling. Because freedom isn't just freedom-from (job, debt, location) — it's freedom-to. If you can't picture the life you'd actually want, the rest is just escape.
Trajectory matters: A 50 today on an upward trajectory becomes a 75 in a year. A 50 today on flat trajectory stays a 50. We give credit for active building because it predicts the next year's score more than the current state does.
These cutoffs are editorial. They're not clean quartiles. The top band (FREE, 14 points wide) is intentionally narrow because true location-independence is rare in the wild — most people who feel "free" still have one anchor (a job, a country, a debt). The middle band (BUILDING, 20 points wide) is the widest because it's where most users actually land, and we want the journey through it to feel meaningful, not like a single step.
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