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The methodology

A score you can inspect, not just accept.

The Jaspen Score helps compare options using your criteria, the evidence you have, and the confidence behind that evidence. It is there to support the decision, not replace your judgment.

JASPEN SCORECARD

Illustrative example
73Overall
Evidence-led
Market opportunity
82
Financial viability
70
Execution readiness
76
Strategic alignment
80
Risk profile
68
Evidence quality
61

The score is a structured read on the current evidence. Better inputs should make the reasoning clearer.

What the score helps with

  • Compare options on the same decision criteria
  • See exactly where a decision is strong or fragile
  • Explain the reasoning behind a resource choice

Why the number is useful

A raw AI chat can sound confident without showing why. Jaspen keeps the score tied to criteria, evidence, weights, and confidence so you can see what is driving the recommendation before you spend money, time, attention, or team capacity.

  • Reproducible: the same inputs produce the same score
  • Explainable: every score traces back to reasoning
  • Useful: the result helps you choose where resources should go

The rubric is yours

Every decision is different, so the criteria should be too. Jaspen proposes a sensible starter rubric based on your objective, then you approve it, edit it, or replace it with your own. You can define up to twelve weighted criteria that capture exactly what matters for this call. Jaspen proposes. It never imposes.

Jaspen proposes

A starter rubric tuned to your objective, ready in seconds, so you are never staring at a blank page.

You adjust

Change the criteria and the weights until they match how you actually make this decision.

It stays yours

Data and models inform the sub-scores. They never choose what matters. That is your call.

The default dimensions

Not sure where to start? Jaspen begins you with six well-tested default dimensions. Keep them as they are, reweight them for this decision, or swap them for your own.

Market opportunity

0.18

The size and reachability of the opportunity the option is aimed at.

Financial viability

0.20

Whether the economics hold up: cost, return, and the assumptions behind them.

Execution readiness

0.18

How ready the team, plan, and dependencies are to actually deliver it.

Strategic alignment

0.16

How well the option serves the direction you have already committed to.

Risk profile

0.16

The exposure the option carries and how much of it is inside your control.

Evidence quality

0.12

How strong the support is. A decision built on thin evidence is penalized for that thinness, on purpose.

Confidence caps: enthusiasm cannot outrun evidence

Every dimension carries a confidence level, and that level caps how much it can contribute before weighting. A confident guess with no evidence behind it is held to 45 points, no matter how good the pitch sounds. Better evidence raises the ceiling.

High

100

Backed by evidence in front of you.

Medium

75

A reasonable inference from what you know.

Low

60

Limited signal so far.

Assumed

45

No direct evidence yet, so it is labeled and bounded.

See the score generated inside a real decision

The Jaspen Score is one part of the full decision-to-execution flow. See how it fits alongside planning and delivery tracking.