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How the growth score is calculated

A plain-language walkthrough of the scoring engine: deterministic, explainable, and never touched by the LLM.

Deterministic by design

The score, the priority ranking and every value estimate are computed by a deterministic engine: the same inputs always produce the same outputs. The LLM in Kompena is only ever used to write explanatory text grounded in numbers the engine already computed; it never invents a score or a value estimate.

Four categories, weighted and rolled up

Marketing, website, tracking and brand are each scored independently against segment-specific benchmarks, then combined into the overall score using documented weights, not hidden ones. Marketing is itself a roll-up: paid search, paid social, SEO and email are sub-disciplines inside it, never categories of their own. The weights also differ by business type, so a lead-gen business is not scored on an e-commerce curve.

Confidence is part of the answer

A score built from two connected sources carries a different confidence level than one built from ten. That confidence is shown alongside the score itself, not buried in a tooltip you'd never find.

Benchmarked, not absolute

Every metric is compared against your segment's priors before it's judged. This is why setting your segment correctly at onboarding matters: it's the difference between a fair comparison and a misleading one.

Put it into practice

See what this looks like on your own data.

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