> ## 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.

# Welcome to Dacard.ai

> Decision intelligence for product teams. We measure where you operate, surface what's blocking the next move, and stay with you while you ship it.

<Note>
  Dacard.ai is your decision sidekick. We measure your team across three frameworks, surface where you're stuck, and stay with you cycle to cycle while you move.
</Note>

# Welcome to Dacard.ai

We're a decision intelligence platform for product teams. We score your product across 27 dimensions in 6 functions, read those scores through three frameworks, and stay with you cycle after cycle to surface the next move and trace the receipts.

## Who we built this for

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  <Card title="Individual contributors" icon="user" href="/knowledge-base/ic-quick-assessment">
    PMs, designers, and engineers who want to know where their team operates today and which move pays off next.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Product leaders" icon="users" href="/knowledge-base/leader-portfolio">
    VPs and directors who need portfolio visibility, team benchmarks, and a defensible read for planning conversations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Founders and CEOs" icon="rocket" href="/knowledge-base/founder-first-score">
    Founders who want investor-ready receipts, competitive position, and clarity on the biggest growth lever this quarter.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Developers" icon="code" href="/knowledge-base/dev-api-quickstart">
    Engineers building integrations, automating workflows, or wiring scoring into their own surfaces via the API.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What we measure

We assess every product across **27 dimensions** grouped into **6 functions**.

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  <Card title="Strategy" icon="chess">
    Market intelligence, decision quality, roadmap discipline, competitive positioning.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Design" icon="palette">
    Research and discovery, prototyping speed, experience design, design-dev handoff.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Development" icon="code">
    Architecture and systems, spec and context quality, build vs buy, delivery velocity.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Operations" icon="gears">
    Customer signal synthesis, product analytics, data flywheel, feedback loop quality.
  </Card>

  <Card title="GTM" icon="rocket">
    Positioning and messaging, launch execution, adoption and expansion, pricing and packaging.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Intelligence" icon="brain">
    Quality and experimentation, team orchestration, process iteration, cost and token economics.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

We score each dimension 1-5 for a composite of **27-135** that maps to your stage on the maturity ladder.

## Three frameworks, one read

Your score lives inside three frameworks that together tell you how to move.

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  <Card title="Team Operations" icon="signal-bars" href="/knowledge-base/framework-operations">
    27 dimensions across 6 functions. The capability read on your team.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Development Lifecycle" icon="arrows-spin" href="/knowledge-base/framework-lifecycle">
    6 stages tracking how you specify, ship, and learn from a build.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Product Assessment" icon="robot" href="/knowledge-base/framework-pom">
    27 dimensions reading your product itself, not just the team behind it.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Get started in 60 seconds

<Steps>
  <Step title="Sign up">
    Head to [app.dacard.ai/sign-up](https://app.dacard.ai/sign-up) with your work email (Google SSO or email/password).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Onboard">
    Pick your role and team size. We use those to set your default permissions in the org.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Score your first product">
    Drop any product URL on the `/score` page and hit **Score**. Receipts land in 15-30 seconds.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Tip>
  Anyone with your email domain joins the same org automatically. No invite needed.
</Tip>

## Next steps

Pick your path.

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  <Card title="Score your first product" icon="bolt" href="/knowledge-base/first-score">
    A 60-second walkthrough for anyone new to the platform.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Run a quick self-assessment" icon="clipboard-check" href="/knowledge-base/ic-quick-assessment">
    For ICs who want to read their team's maturity right now.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Track your product portfolio" icon="chart-mixed" href="/knowledge-base/leader-portfolio">
    For leaders managing multiple products or teams.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API quickstart" icon="code" href="/knowledge-base/dev-api-quickstart">
    For developers who want to score products programmatically.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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  <Accordion title="Where do scores come from?">
    We crawl the public surface of your product (URL, marketing site, changelogs, public docs), pull adapter signal from any integrations you connect (GitHub, Linear, Slack, and others), and combine that with anything you teach DAC directly. Each dimension gets scored 1-5 against the rubric described in [Scoring](/knowledge-base/scoring).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Where do the three frameworks come from?">
    The three frameworks are the canonical Path C+ read on your team. Team Operations measures capability, Development Lifecycle measures how you ship, Product Assessment measures the product itself. Each one has its own per-framework stage names. The composite that runs across all three uses verb forms (React, Augment, Orchestrate, Lead, Compound). See [Three frameworks](/knowledge-base/three-frameworks) for the full read.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What changes after my first score?">
    DAC starts monitoring you. We watch your scores cycle to cycle, push coaching cards into your backlog when a move opens up, and trace every move you ship back to the score it changed. See [Reports](/knowledge-base/reports) for the receipts you get.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>