Intelligence Scoring
Get a complete intelligence report: readability, ATS compatibility, consistency, and compliance check, all in one upload.
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What this workspace analyses
Readability Score
Flesch-Kincaid grade level, reading time, sentence complexity
ATS Compatibility
Keyword density, formatting compatibility for applicant tracking
Consistency Check
Heading style uniformity, term consistency throughout
Compliance Audit
Missing sections, risky language, document type detection
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Four Dimensions of Document Quality.
Most people edit documents without knowing what's actually wrong. They fix spelling, then wonder why the document still 'feels off.' Document quality is multidimensional, readability, ATS compatibility, consistency, and compliance are independent axes, and a weakness in any one can undermine the entire document. The Scoring workspace gives you a complete diagnostic before you ever start editing.
The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: Still the Gold Standard
Developed by the U.S. Navy in 1975 and used by everyone from Microsoft Word to Pennsylvania's insurance disclosure regulations, the Flesch-Kincaid grade level is the most widely accepted readability metric. It estimates the U.S. school grade level required to understand a piece of text, based on average sentence length and average syllables per word.
A business email should score around Grade 8. A general news article around Grade 10. A legal contract will often score Grade 14+, appropriate for its audience, but wildly wrong for a marketing landing page. Our Readability tool returns the score, the intended reading-time estimate, and identifies specific sentences that blow past the acceptable complexity for your document type.
ATS Compatibility: What the Parser Actually Sees
Applicant Tracking Systems don't 'read' resumes the way humans do. They run text-extraction algorithms that strip out formatting, then apply named-entity recognition to identify contact info, job titles, dates, and skills. Anything the parser can't extract cleanly either gets lost or mis-categorized.
Our ATS Compatibility check simulates this parsing: it looks for tables used for layout (ATS-hostile), text inside headers/footers (often ignored), multi-column layouts (confuse left-to-right parsers), and non-standard section titles ("My Journey" instead of "Experience"). It returns a compatibility score plus a list of specific parser-hostile elements.
Why Consistency Signals Competence
Cognitive psychology research on "processing fluency" shows that inconsistencies, even tiny ones, impose a small cognitive tax on every reader. When your document switches between "customer" and "client" mid-way, or uses Title Case for some headings and sentence case for others, readers don't always consciously notice, but they unconsciously rate the document as less professional.
The Consistency check audits four axes: heading style uniformity (Title Case vs. sentence case), term consistency (are you saying "customer" in one section and "client" in another?), list formatting (bullets vs. numbered, periods at the end of items), and punctuation conventions (Oxford comma used throughout or not at all).
Compliance: What's Missing
Most quality tools tell you what's wrong with what's there. Our Compliance check does the inverse: it detects your document type (contract, resume, research paper, business report, etc.) and identifies what should be there but isn't.
A SaaS agreement without a Limitation of Liability clause. A resume without a Skills section. A research paper without a Methodology section. An employment contract without a Termination clause. These are the structural omissions that turn an otherwise decent document into a risk.
The Grade: A Single Number, Backed by Data
Every scored document receives an overall grade from A to F, derived from the four sub-scores. This isn't a marketing gimmick, it's a weighted composite designed to match the way a professional editor would rate a document holistically. An A-grade document is ready to ship. A C-grade document has at least one critical weakness that should be fixed before distribution.
Alongside the grade, we return a Top Improvements list: the three or four specific changes that would move the score fastest. This is what turns the Scoring workspace from 'diagnostic' into 'prescriptive', it tells you exactly which workspace to send the document to next.
The Starting Point for Every Document
Not sure whether your document needs rework? Run it through Scoring first. In 15 seconds you get a complete picture: where it's strong, where it's weak, and which other workspace can fix each weakness. It's the diagnostic step before treatment, and for most documents, it's the most useful 15 seconds you'll spend.
A document doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to match the standards of its audience. Scoring tells you whether it does, and if not, exactly where it falls short.
Before you edit, measure. The Scoring workspace gives you the diagnostic baseline that turns document editing from intuition-driven to evidence-driven. Upload any document and get your complete intelligence report in one pass.