How the fit score works
Five buckets, nine factors, 100 points, no black box. The exact math behind every Hot, Warm, Prospect, and Watch pin.
Every permit gets a 0–100 fit score computed from nine factors, summed into five buckets. The tiers: Hot is 70+, Warm 40–69, Prospect 14–39, Watch under 14 — and the pin color matches the tier, so the map reads at a glance.
| Bucket | Max | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Timing | 38 | The heavyweight. Your trade window (up to 30 — the ideal window earns the max, early is generous, late drops fast) plus freshness (+8 down to −4 — permits that have sat around for months actively lose points). |
| Project fit | 20 | Project type match with your targeting (up to 12) plus how well the value fits your kind of work (up to 8). |
| Location | 19 | Your territory: a city match earns 15, a region match 14, same-province 6. Proximity to your base adds up to 4. |
| Connections | 20 | Builders you've worked with or watch (up to 18), plus lookalikes to deals you've already won (up to 12) — capped at 20. |
| Reachability | 8 | Contact quality: phone + email on file earns the max (8), one of the two earns 5, a name only 3 — so you know before you dial. |
The qualification gates
A raw total isn't the whole story — gates can demote a tier. Hot requires a profile-driven signal: strong trade-window timing, a real relationship (a builder in your pipeline, or a close lookalike to your wins), or your kind of project inside your territory. Raw freshness alone can't fake it. Warm requires at least one genuinely strong signal. And one override runs the other way: a builder on your watchlist — or one you've closed five-plus deals with — is Hot automatically.
What this means in practice
- Open the breakdown, not just the number. Click a project and expand the score: each of the nine factors shows what it earned out of its max with a one-line reason — so you can tell a timing-driven 78 from one that's high because you've worked with the builder.
- Scores move. Freshness decays (down to −4 once a permit has sat for six months) and trade windows open and close — so today's Watch pin can be next month's Hot.
- You control more of the score than you think. Your Targeting setup (trades, project types, value range) drives Timing and Project fit; the regions and cities you cover drive Location; the builders you star drive Connections.
- A 65 in your backyard often beats an 80 across town once proximity and relationship factor in. The breakdown is there so the score earns your trust instead of asking for it.