Every figure carries its own confidence
During the diagnostic, each figure is marked exact, estimated, or unknown. Saying "I don't know" is a first-class answer: it is recorded as missing evidence, not scored as a zero.
Methodology
The grade measures the evidence, never the business.
Every PCI report carries an Evidence Grade: High, Medium, Low, or Impaired. It grades how firmly your numbers are supported, not how your business is doing. Finding more risks can never lower it; only thin evidence can.
Evidence‑backed percent
The share of confidence-graded fields marked exact. Estimated and imported figures never count as verified, so a diagnostic completed from spreadsheet imports can be complete without claiming verification.
The four grades
The confidence ladder.
| Grade | What drives it | How to read the report |
|---|---|---|
| High | Few unknowns, a complete diagnostic, and no material evidence-quality gaps. | Figures are firm enough to act on directly. |
| Medium | Solid coverage with a meaningful estimated or imported share, or several distinct evidence-quality gaps in how the books are kept (expense opacity, no single source of truth, manual reconciliation bridges). Those gaps temper a grade to Medium, never lower. | Directionally reliable; verify the specific figures you plan to act on. |
| Low | A high unknown share or a substantially incomplete diagnostic. Never findings about the business. | Treat dollar figures as hypotheses to confirm against your books. |
| Impaired | Unknowns crossing roughly a third of the graded fields. | The assessment's first job becomes showing you where evidence is missing; restoring visibility is finding one. |
WHY IT MATTERS
Why the grade matters
- It travels with every numberThe report's evidence table carries the grade, and your agents inherit a server-derived data confidence from the same diagnostic.
- It cannot be inflatedThe grade is computed from the evidence mix by fixed rules, not from anyone's judgment of the business.
- It protects honest operatorsDeclining to guess is recorded truthfully. An operator who marks a figure unknown gets an honest grade instead of a fabricated number.
- It tells you what to fix firstA Low or Impaired grade is itself a diagnosis: the fastest path to a firmer assessment is better visibility, and the report names which fields are thin.
See how your evidence grades stack up.
Every PCI report carries an Evidence Grade.
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