Core concepts

How lead scoring works

What the 0–100 fit score means, what evidence it's based on, and how your decisions make it sharper.

Last updated 2026-07-14

Every discovered lead gets a fit score from 0 to 100 — a judgment of how well this specific person matches your ICP, with written reasoning you can read on the lead card.

The bands

  • 90–100 — excellent fit on role, company, and profile evidence alone.
  • 70–89 — good fit with some uncertainty or thinner evidence.
  • 50–69 — adjacent or uncertain fit.
  • below 50 — poor fit.

The scorer is explicitly told to be honest, to tie the score to concrete evidence, and to name the band and the reason. A few rules keep it strict:

  • A matching title keyword is not a fit — a "fractional advisor" doesn't fill a role that needs an owner with a team and budget.
  • Seniority and brand never substitute for your ICP's core requirements — a VP at a famous company who lacks the core is capped as adjacent.
  • Location matters: for an offer tied to a city or market, an out-of-market lead with no relocation signal is capped as adjacent at best.
  • Your "Don't target" exclusions are hard rules — a match scores below 50.

Two passes, increasing evidence

Search results carry only name, title, company, location. Candidates are first ranked cheaply, then the promising slice gets a quick scoring pass. The best of those are enriched — full profile, bio, recent posts — and re-scored on the sharper model with the extra evidence. Your credits are spent where they matter: deep evaluation only for candidates that earned it.

Timing signals — a recent relevant post, a job change — are scored on a separate intent axis, so "how well they fit" and "why now" never blur. Right before the first message, leads are re-scored once more with their latest posts.

It learns from your decisions

Accepting and rejecting suggestions feeds the next run: queries and scoring are biased toward what you accepted and away from what you rejected — as soft guidance that never overrides the evidence rules above. Calibration anchors from your approved ICP keep scores consistent from run to run.