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Glossary / Evaluation and implementation guide

Offer Scoring Model

An offer scoring model defines how much lead score weight acceptance of each offer type contributes.

Instead of every acceptance adding the same points, weights are agreed with sales in advance: a demo request carries far more signal than a blog subscription, and the model encodes that difference explicitly.

A practical example

Example: the model assigns a demo request a large positive weight, a pricing page guide a moderate weight, and a newsletter signup a minimal weight, with weights decaying if the same lead repeats the same low-intent action.

What to evaluate before investing

  • Can scoring rules be conditioned on the specific offer or asset accepted, not just any form fill?
  • Does the platform support score decay or deduplication for repeated identical actions?
  • Is there a shared, documented weight table that sales and marketing both signed off on?

Limitations and tradeoffs

The tradeoff is calibration: weights encode judgment, not proof, and stale weights can quietly over- or under-prioritize leads until the model is recalibrated against actual outcomes.

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