> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.dacard.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Score your first product in 60 seconds

> We score your product in under a minute. Here's how to read what you get back.

<Note>
  Drop a URL, hit Score, get receipts in 30 seconds. The fastest way to see what we do is to point us at your own product (then point us at a competitor).
</Note>

# Score your first product in 60 seconds

Whether you're an IC, a leader, a founder, or a developer, scoring is the fastest way to see what we do. This page gets you from zero to scored in under a minute.

## Two ways in

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="URL score (recommended)">
    We crawl the public surface of a product and score all 27 dimensions automatically.

    <Steps>
      <Step title="Open /score">
        Head to [app.dacard.ai/score](https://app.dacard.ai/score) from the main nav.
      </Step>

      <Step title="Drop a URL">
        Paste any product's marketing page or homepage. Use the main landing page (not a blog post or docs page) for the best read.
      </Step>

      <Step title="Hit Score">
        We crawl up to 6 pages, pull observable signals, and score all 27 dimensions. About 15-30 seconds.
      </Step>

      <Step title="Read your receipts">
        The maturity report opens automatically with your composite, dimension breakdown, strengths, gaps, and the next move we recommend.
      </Step>
    </Steps>

    <Tip>
      Score your own product first. Then score a competitor and compare. Each URL score costs 10 credits.
    </Tip>
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Quick assessment">
    The lifecycle assessment is a self-reported read. Answer a few questions about how you ship today, get an immediate stage placement.

    <Steps>
      <Step title="Open the Lifecycle tab">
        Pick a product from your dashboard, open the **Lifecycle** tab.
      </Step>

      <Step title="Answer the questions">
        For each lifecycle task, mark it: not started, in progress, or done.
      </Step>

      <Step title="Read your placement">
        We compute your completion per stage and surface where you sit on the lifecycle.
      </Step>
    </Steps>
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

## What your composite means

Your composite (27-135) lands on one of five stages on the Team Operations ladder.

| Stage           | Range   | Read                                                |
| --------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| **Foundation**  | 27-48   | Basics missing across most dimensions.              |
| **Building**    | 49-70   | Emerging practice, applied unevenly.                |
| **Scaling**     | 71-91   | Systematic, measured, repeatable.                   |
| **Leading**     | 92-113  | Deeply integrated practice, hard to copy.           |
| **Compounding** | 114-135 | Self-improving systems that get better every cycle. |

## Reading the report

Your report carries:

* **Composite** and stage at the top
* **Dimension breakdown** across all 27 dimensions with score, evidence, and our confidence
* **Signal bars** for at-a-glance health per dimension (green strong, amber developing, red gap)
* **Strengths and gaps** with your top 3 and bottom 3 dimensions
* **Cross-dimension patterns** that surface a systemic theme
* **Recommendations** with the next move we'd take, calibrated to your current stage

## Try it without an account

Anyone can score at [app.dacard.ai/try](https://app.dacard.ai/try) without an account. Anonymous scores are rate-limited (1 per hour) and don't unlock the full report.

## What's next

Your next move depends on your role.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="I'm an IC" icon="user" href="/knowledge-base/ic-understand-report">
    Read your report and turn it into the next action.
  </Card>

  <Card title="I'm a leader" icon="users" href="/knowledge-base/leader-team-scoring">
    Wire up team scoring to track multiple products and read portfolio patterns.
  </Card>

  <Card title="I'm a founder" icon="rocket" href="/knowledge-base/founder-first-score">
    Frame your score for investor conversations and stakeholder updates.
  </Card>

  <Card title="I'm a developer" icon="code" href="/knowledge-base/dev-api-quickstart">
    Score products programmatically via the API.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="What does the crawler actually pull?">
    We pull up to 6 pages from your URL plus any linked changelog, pricing, docs, blog, and trust pages. We extract observable signals (positioning copy, integration list, pricing surface, deployment tells, doc structure, changelog cadence) and feed those signals into the rubric. We don't pull anything behind auth.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Why does the same URL sometimes score differently?">
    Two reasons. First, your public surface changes (you ship copy, add integrations, publish a changelog) and we re-read what's there. Second, we sometimes refresh the rubric calibration; when we do, we surface the move in the changelog. You can pin a score to lock the read for comparison purposes.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Anonymous score limits">
    Anonymous scores are 1 per hour, capped at 5 per day per IP. The report shows the composite and top-level breakdown but not the per-dimension evidence, the recommendations, or the trace back to source. Sign up to unlock the full read.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>