Read your maturity report

How to read your scoring report and turn it into the next move.

Six sections to your report: composite, dimension breakdown, signal bars, strengths and gaps, cross-dimension patterns, next-move recommendations. The biggest leverage usually sits in raising a 1 to a 2, not a 3 to a 4.

Read your maturity report

As an IC, you want to read your report and walk away with the next move. This page tells you how.

Report anatomy

After scoring, your maturity report carries six sections.

Composite and stage

The top of the report shows your composite (27-135) and stage. This is your headline.

Stage	Range	Read
Foundation	27-48	Capability is basic or absent. Start with the fundamentals.
Building	49-70	Practice exists but lands unevenly. Focus on repeatability.
Scaling	71-91	Systematic process in place. Optimize and measure outcomes.
Leading	92-113	Deep integration across functions. Extend and defend the lead.
Compounding	114-135	Self-improving systems. Maintain the flywheel.

Dimension breakdown

All 27 dimensions are listed with their score (1-5), the evidence we found, and our confidence (high, medium, low). Dimensions are grouped by function:

• Strategy (4): market intelligence, decision quality, roadmap discipline, competitive positioning
• Design (4): research and discovery, prototyping speed, experience design, design-dev handoff
• Development (4): architecture and systems, spec and context quality, build vs buy, delivery velocity
• Operations (4): customer signal synthesis, product analytics, data flywheel, feedback loop quality
• GTM (4): positioning and messaging, launch execution, adoption and expansion, pricing and packaging
• Intelligence (4): quality and experimentation, team orchestration, process iteration, cost and token economics

Signal bars

Each dimension has a signal bar in traffic-light colors for at-a-glance reading.

• Green (3-4): strong. Maintain and extend.
• Amber (2): developing. A targeted move pays off.
• Red (1): gap. This is capping your composite.

Strengths and gaps

Your report surfaces the top 3 and bottom 3 dimensions. This is the most actionable section. Your gaps carry the highest leverage because moving a 1 to a 2 has more impact than moving a 3 to a 4.

Cross-dimension patterns

We surface systemic themes that span multiple dimensions. If customer signal synthesis, product analytics, and feedback loop quality all score low, the pattern might be “weak data feedback loops” rather than three separate problems.

Next-move recommendations

Each dimension carries a recommendation calibrated to your current score. A dimension at 1 gets a Foundation-appropriate move (“establish a basic analytics stack”). A dimension at 3 gets a Scaling-appropriate move (“automate anomaly detection in your analytics pipeline”).

How to read by function

If you're a PM

Lean on Strategy and Operations first. Your primary levers are market intelligence, decision quality, customer signal synthesis, and product analytics. These dimensions read how well your team understands users and makes evidence-based calls.

If you're an engineer

Lean on Development and Intelligence. Architecture and systems, delivery velocity, and cost and token economics are your core dimensions. A high architecture score with low delivery velocity means you have the foundation but can’t capitalize on it fast enough.

If you're a designer

Lean on Design. Research and discovery, prototyping speed, experience design, and design-dev handoff show how effectively your design process turns insight into shipped product. Low design-dev handoff often signals a systemic collaboration problem.

Confidence levels

Each dimension score carries our confidence.

• High: multiple strong signals observed. Score is reliable.
• Medium: some signal found, evidence is limited. Connect adapters for tighter accuracy.
• Low: minimal signal. Score is directional but may not fully reflect your capability. Connect adapters or re-score a richer surface.

Low confidence doesn’t mean a low score. It means we had limited evidence. Connecting adapters (GitHub, Linear, PostHog) adds ground-truth operational data and lifts confidence fast.

What’s next

Coach with DAC

Ask DAC to explain your biggest gaps and build an improvement plan.

Map your lifecycle

Complement your maturity score with a lifecycle assessment.

Share with your leader

Every score has a shareable URL. Send it to stakeholders without making them sign in.

Connect adapters

Tighten scoring accuracy by wiring up GitHub, Linear, and others.