North Star of Utah
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Academy 02 Score

Turn a judgment call into a number you can argue with

Scoring is not a way to remove judgment. It is a way to expose it, so the reasoning behind a call survives longer than the mood of the meeting it was made in.

Competency

Structured evaluation and weighting

Objective

Leave this lesson able to score any open decision on opportunity, risk and effort, and defend the number with written reasoning.

Where this sits

The loop, with this stage lit.

  1. 01Signal
  2. 02Score
  3. 03Assign
  4. 04Execute
  5. 05Verify
  6. 06Remember

Comes in from

Signal

This stage

Score

Leave this lesson able to score any open decision on opportunity, risk and effort, and defend the number with written reasoning.

Hands off to

Assign

Composite Utah service-business examples of this loop running end to end: Read the composites

Why it matters

  • An unscored decision is decided by whoever spoke last or loudest, and no one can review it later on its merits.
  • Weighting forces you to say how much the downside matters relative to the upside, which is the argument people usually skip.
  • A written score lets a future reader disagree with the reasoning instead of guessing at it.

How to run it

  • Rate opportunity, risk and effort from one to ten, using the same scale every time so scores stay comparable.
  • Apply the published weights of opportunity forty five percent, risk thirty percent, effort twenty five percent.
  • Write two sentences of reasoning under the score. What would have to be true for this to be wrong.
  • If the score sits close to a band edge, reduce the effort or the exposure by one step and score it again.
  • Check the score against the decision, not against how well the write up reads.
  • Have a second person score the same decision cold and compare the gap.
  • Keep the scale definitions written down so next quarter scores the same way.

Evidence it ran

  • A score out of one hundred with the three inputs visible.
  • Two sentences of written reasoning attached to the score.
  • A recommended move stated as a band, not as a feeling.

Competency pulls

The skills this stage draws on, written in our own words and taught against a real decision in your shop.

  • Builder fluency: turning a vague ask into a structured, testable statement.
  • Creative and judgment work under constraint, where taste still has to be defended.
  • Discernment: checking the output against the decision instead of the wording.

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