Glossary
Zoe Score
A composite score (0 to 100) across nine dimensions: Financial Vitality, Delivery & Execution, Culture & People, C-Suite, Market & Competition, Go-to-Market, Vision & Strategy, Product & Customer, and Risk, weighted for the company’s stage. Computed when a diagnostic runs; it ships with a confidence percentage and a coverage tier. Every point decomposes to the metrics and the dated pulls behind it. 78 and above reads Healthy, 55 to 77 Attention, below 55 Critical. The band is always named in words next to the number, never carried by color alone.
Why it matters
The Zoe Score exists so a deal team can see operational risk as one number that takes apart. PE firms use it to pressure-test thesis assumptions, identify value levers for the first 100 days, and surface integration risks before close. 78 and above reads Healthy, 55 to 77 Attention, below 55 Critical. The band is always named in words next to the number. What it flags are the structural problems no financial model can engineer away: the score is predictive in framing (it scores what is about to happen) and every point of it opens to evidence.
How Zoe reads it
Zoe computes the score when a diagnostic runs, weighting the nine health dimensions for the company's stage: Financial Vitality, Delivery & Execution, Culture & People, C-Suite, Market & Competition, Go-to-Market, Vision & Strategy, Product & Customer, and Risk. Each dimension pulls from the systems the company connected (accounting, CRM, GitHub, Jira, Slack), checked against the Claim Ledger built from the deck and closed out by the scored Company Call. Every score ships with a confidence percentage and a coverage tier, and every point of the composite decomposes to the metrics and the dated pulls behind it in the Deal Package.
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