Frequently asked questions

WIB (wibest.in) is India's independent comparison platform for hospitals, restaurants, schools, colleges, electronics, cars, and travel. Built and maintained by a single Indian founder using AI tools, we rank options by data and editorial judgement, never by paid placement. Launched in 2025.

As of May 2026: 463 hospitals across 36 cities, 605 restaurants across 28 cities, 10 research reports, 140+ open datasets.

One Indian founder, AI-augmented editorial. No staff. No VC funding. No advertiser influence on rankings. The founder personally writes every research report, verifies every hospital/restaurant record, and responds to every reader email at hello@wibest.in.

Full team structure + decision rights + accountability at /team/.

Three things: (1) No paid placements, ever. Most Indian "Top 10" lists are paid SEO. WIB rankings are editorial. (2) Open data. We publish every dataset as CSV + JSON under CC-BY 4.0 so anyone can verify our numbers. (3) Solo + AI-augmented. No team forced to chase advertiser money to make payroll.

Editorial principles documented at /methodology/.

Currently: ad revenue (Google AdSense) + affiliate links on relevant product comparisons (Amazon Associates, Flipkart via EarnKaro, Cuelinks). Disclosed at /affiliate-disclosure/. Affiliate links don't influence rankings — they're added after editorial selection, only on products that won on merit.

No, WIB is not yet profitable. Reach (organic search + press) is the current bottleneck, not features.

Every hospital is added via a 7-step editorial protocol:

• Source identification (verifiable public website OR registry listing)
• Name + address cross-check against the hospital's own website
• NABH accreditation check against official registry
• Bed count sourced from hospital website or annual report
• Specialty list capped at top 5 the hospital highlights itself
• Rating normalisation from public review aggregates (Google, Practo)
• Quarterly re-verification

Full protocol with limitations callouts at /methodology/.

Aggregated from publicly available review platforms (Google, Zomato) on a 5-point scale. We don't accept unverifiable user-submitted reviews. Restaurants below 4.0 rating are generally excluded — WIB's coverage is "top-rated," not exhaustive. Cuisine tagging is editorial (max 4 cuisines, not the "Multi-Cuisine + every cuisine" pile that diluted Zomato's data).

Quarterly review cycle for every record. Combined endpoints (/data/csv/wib-hospitals-all.csv, /data/json/hospitals.json) always reflect the latest verified snapshot. Major dataset versions are logged at /data/changelog/.

Closed businesses are removed; new businesses are added; ratings refresh; NABH status changes propagate.

Six explicit refusals:

• No paid placements
• No fake reviews — only aggregated public-source data
• No scraping of competitors (Zomato/Practo are sanity checks, not source)
• No anonymous editorial — all reports bylined
• No hidden affiliate manipulation
• No clickbait headlines unsupported by data

Full list at /methodology/.

Yes — for free. All open datasets are published under CC-BY 4.0 at /data/. You can use them commercially, modify them, redistribute them. The only requirement is attribution.

Suggested attribution: Data source: WIB Open Data (wibest.in/data/), CC-BY 4.0.

Yes. JSON endpoints with documented schema, code samples in JavaScript / Python / curl, recipe library, and CORS enabled. No signup, no API key, no rate limits. Full docs at /api/.

BibTeX format:

@misc{wib_hospitals_2026, author = {WIB Editorial}, title = {WIB India Hospitals Dataset 2026}, year = {2026}, url = {https://wibest.in/data/}, license = {CC-BY-4.0}}

Email hello@wibest.in with your published paper or report and we'll list you on /press-coverage/.

Two ways:

• Embeddable widgets at /embed/ — iframe widget showing top-rated restaurants or hospitals for any Indian city.
• WIB Score badge at /embed/score/ — if your hospital or restaurant is featured on WIB, you can embed our verified rating badge.

NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers) is India's flagship hospital quality-accreditation body. NABH-accredited hospitals are independently verified on 600+ patient-safety, infection-control, surgical-care, and credentialed-staff measures.

In WIB's dataset: 97% of metro hospitals hold NABH vs 68% in tier-3 cities — a 29-point quality gap documented in our Beyond the Metros report. Full term at /glossary/#nabh.

No. Both are layered rice dishes but: biryani uses the dum-cooking method where raw or partially-cooked meat and rice are layered in a sealed pot and slow-cooked together. Pulao is cooked in one step, like a pilaf. Biryani is heavier, more aromatic, more festive; pulao is lighter and faster.

Full term at /glossary/#biryani-pulao.

It depends on the child's path:

• CBSE: largest network, uniform across India, closely tracks JEE/NEET. Best for families that may relocate or aim for engineering/medical entrances.
• ICSE: more rigorous on English and humanities. Best for arts/language careers.
• IB: globally portable, strong critical thinking. Expensive (Rs 5-15L/year). Best for families planning international university applications.
• State boards: regional-language instruction at lower fees, aligned with state-level entrances.

Overall: Bangalore. Cost-to-quality: Indore. The honest ranking with methodology is in our Best Indian Cities for Remote Workers 2026 report. Top 5: Bangalore, Indore, Pune, Hyderabad, Mysore. Mumbai and Delhi are intentionally not in the top 10 because their cost-of-living drags the composite for remote workers.

To get a personalised match, take the 6-question quiz.

Move to tier-3 if: your healthcare needs are routine, you're remote-work eligible, kids are under 13 and don't need IB schools yet, spouse's career doesn't require metro density. The cost saving compounds into Rs 1+ crore corpus differential over 10 years.

Stay in metros if: you need oncology/transplant care, your kids need IB/Cambridge schools or are within 5 years of IIM/ISB applications, your career requires daily in-person network density.

Full breakdown in Metro vs Tier-3 India.

Email hello@wibest.in with the page URL and the specific error. Include a source for the corrected information (the business's own website, official registry, etc.). We respond within 5 working days and either correct, remove, or explain.

Major corrections are documented in the changelog. We don't silently edit published research.

Email hello@wibest.in from a verifiable business email (matching domain or LinkedIn-listed business email). Include the WIB page URL + the change requested + supporting source (your website / official registry / annual report).

If you've also installed the WIB Score badge on your site, mention it — we'll feature you on /press-coverage/.

Email hello@wibest.in with: business name, full address, website, type (multi-specialty hospital / restaurant / etc.), and for hospitals — NABH accreditation status. We review editorially and add based on our methodology criteria. Multi-specialty + verifiable + currently operational businesses are added; single-specialty clinics and dental chains are excluded.

Press kit at /press/ — logos, fact sheet, founder bio, ready-to-use quotes, recent reports.

For interviews or custom data, email hello@wibest.in with "Press Inquiry" in subject + your publication + deadline. Response within 24 hours.

Not currently — editorial is intentionally single-byline to maintain coherence. But you can: (1) suggest research questions, (2) point out gaps in our coverage, (3) share data we should know about, (4) join the weekly newsletter to follow what's shipping. Email hello@wibest.in with what you'd want to see.