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Core Concept

Scoring Methodology

Scoring helps teams summarize a message review, but the score is only useful when read alongside the underlying objections and confusion points.

Key points

  • Clarity as a directional summary
  • Confidence tied to run depth
  • Objection review alongside score
  • Trend and comparison support

How to read the signal

  • Start with clarity and decision confidence, then inspect the qualitative evidence.
  • Large score moves matter less if the underlying objections stay the same.
  • Use comparisons across revisions to decide whether the rewrite actually improved the message.

What the score is not

  • It is not a revenue guarantee or a substitute for live experiment data.
  • It is not independent from persona quality or scenario framing.
  • It should not be used alone for executive approval when the stakes are high.

In plain terms

  • Robust mode runs the same message five times and shows the range of reactions, not just one answer. The 95% confidence interval means the result would land in that range 95 times out of 100.
  • A narrow interval means the personas reacted consistently. A wide interval means reactions varied — the copy is polarising or the scenario is ambiguous.
  • A high score with a wide interval is weaker evidence than a high score with a narrow one. Use the interval to decide whether the result is stable enough to act on.
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