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Methodology

How VeriOne scores your business

A clear explanation of how VeriOne turns your information into scores and recommendations.

1. Document ingestion

You upload financials (P&L, balance sheet, cash-flow), operational documents, and share your website and industry. Files are stored encrypted and private to your account, processed by authorised components only to produce your assessment.

2. Document text extraction

The engine extracts readable text from every supported file server-side — PDFs, spreadsheets (XLSX/CSV), and Word documents. Unreadable formats (scanned images, legacy .doc, PowerPoint) are honestly flagged as evidence gaps rather than silently ignored.

3. AI analysis

The AI Engine reads the extracted document text alongside your company context (industry, size, website) to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities that are grounded in the actual contents of your documents — not generic templates. Confidence is set by evidence quality: thin documents produce a low, honest confidence score.

4. Comparison and composition

The findings are composed into the scoring dimensions below. Where a sector position or percentile is shown, it is an indicative, AI-estimated comparison based on the information supplied and general patterns for your sector and size — VeriOne does not hold a verified benchmark database. When document evidence is thin, the report falls back to input-based general patterns and says so.

5. Score composition

The scoring dimensions below are combined into your overall Business Health Score. We do not publish exact weights or formulas, and the mix can change as the engine improves. Recommendations are tailored only when there is enough document evidence to ground them; otherwise you see clearly-labelled general guidance.

The five scoring dimensions

Every VeriOne assessment produces these five dimensions. Together they compose the overall Business Health Score shown on your report.

Operational score

How efficiently the business runs day-to-day: cost structure, execution cadence, staffing efficiency vs. output.

Financial score

Financial health: margin, liquidity, working-capital position, and quality of earnings.

Growth score

Forward-looking growth potential: market position, expansion signals, and channel diversification.

Risk score

Aggregated risk index (0–100) across operations, cash-flow, and customer concentration, mapped to a Low / Moderate / High label.

Indicative sector position

An AI-estimated comparison with similar-size businesses in your stated sector, shown as a percentile and a plain-language rank. It is an estimate from the information supplied, not a verified market benchmark.

Where each part of a result comes from

Your evidence

Anything readable in the documents and details you supplied. These findings are specific to your business and are the strongest part of a report.

General patterns

Where your evidence is thin, the engine falls back on typical patterns for your sector and size. This is general guidance, and it is labelled as such.

Confidence

A percentage showing how much usable evidence sat behind the result. Low confidence means treat the numbers as a rough starting point.

Missing information

Files we could not read and gaps in the evidence are named in the report rather than filled in with assumptions.

Honest limitations
  • AI-generated. Scores, strengths, weaknesses and recommendations are produced by automated analysis, not by a human adviser or an audit.
  • Informational only. Reports are decision support, not accounting, legal, tax or investment advice. Use them as a starting point, not a conclusion.
  • It depends on what you share. Better inputs produce a more accurate result. The confidence percentage reflects how much the engine actually had to work with.
  • Comparisons are indicative. Sector positions are AI-estimated from the information supplied and general sector patterns. VeriOne does not hold a verified benchmark dataset, so treat any percentile as a rough placement.
  • No guarantee of outcomes. Recommendations describe opportunities the engine sees today. Execution and results remain your responsibility.