Every prospective client, and every material transaction inside an existing engagement, is scored against the same ten questions — the /100 Matrix. A score of 70 or above proceeds. Fifty to sixty-nine goes back for redesign. Below fifty is declined, without exception.
The matrix is published to every client, not held back as an internal tool. That is deliberate: a scoring system a firm is willing to show you is a firm willing to be held to it.
The ten questions test compounding (does it grow the decade map, not the quarter), leverage (is the upside at least ten times the realistic alternative), and integrity (is it safe, ethical, and reputation-positive for both sides) in equal measure. AI multiplication and network effects — does it strengthen the Circle — are scored explicitly, because both are treated as structural advantages, not afterthoughts.
We decline more than we accept. That ratio is the point, not a flaw in it.