Limits
What Growth Score does not do.
These boundaries are part of the published method. They explain where Growth Score can be used and where another form of evidence is required.
- It does not predict growth. It measures selected commercial capabilities and current momentum that may support growth. It is an upstream measure, not a forecast of future revenue or growth.
- It does not predict funding outcomes or improve the odds of funding. Growth Score is not an investment-readiness, eligibility or funding score. No relationship between a score and a funding outcome is claimed without supporting outcome evidence.
- It is not a credit or risk signal. Do not use it as an input to lending, affordability, pricing, procurement, eligibility or automated decision-making.
- The data is self-reported, and the report states this. Responses describe the company's account of how it sells, so the result should be read alongside other evidence where available. A later result can show movement, but it does not establish why the movement occurred.
- It does not rank companies against one another. A score is a position on the method's fixed scale, not a league-table position. Peer comparisons are not published until the cohort is defensible.
- It does not claim causation. A report may record that a later measurement followed an intervention. It does not establish that the intervention caused the movement.
- There is no peer benchmark yet. The sample must be large enough within a comparable segment, defined by business model and maturity level, before a benchmark can be reported. See Version history.
- Unverified figures are marked as placeholders. The site does not present a figure as confirmed until it has been checked.