Embodiments of an associated community platform are shown. Some embodiments comprise a receiver residing on a server to receive data from one or more nodes that are apart of a merchant network, a calculator residing on the server to calculate a score based upon the data, a mapper residing on the server to map the score to an assessment score, and a alerter residing on a server to alert where a threshold value is exceed by the mapping of the score to the assessment score. Additionally, a method embodiment is illustrated comprising receiving data from one or more nodes that are apart of a merchant network, calculating a score based upon the data, mapping the score to an assessment score, and alerting where a threshold value is exceed by the mapping of the score to the assessment score. Algorithms may be implemented to determine the existence of links in network.