Portfolio Readiness Insight & Scoring Methodology

See your tool's readiness in three dimensions.

Score any education R&D tool across three readiness dimensions to see exactly where it stands — and what to strengthen next. Built for the teams building tools and the funders evaluating them.

I'm building a tool

Know where you stand, and what's next.

Walk the three readiness ladders by simply uploading your top-level idea or proposal, and get a full three-dimensional profile with recommendations on where to focus next, as well as risk flags and short/long-term risk mitigation strategies. This gives you a shared map that funders use to evaluate and benchmark progress, and helps you position your proposal alongside this shared map.

Open PRISM Self-Assessment →
I'm evaluating a portfolio

Benchmark, score, and document risk.

Paste a grant proposal for an automated draft scorecard across all three dimensions plus a populated DARPA-style risk plan. Refine the scoring, capture evidence quotes, compare applicants, and export Markdown scorecards for your Investment Memo process.

Open PRISM Portfolio Analysis →
BOTH SIDES SCORE ON THE SAME THREE READINESS LADDERS

Why three dimensions

Three independent, structured ladders do work that narrative review — and any one-dimensional score — can't.

Shared language → payable milestones

Funders and ventures score projects on the same ladder. Grant tranches can be released against named transitions (PRL 5 → 6, ProML 3 → 4) instead of vague deliverables.

Shared expectations with funders

Each stage specifies what reasonable progress looks like, surfacing authentic progress even when prototype work stalls and only People or Process readiness advances.

Apples-to-apples across the portfolio

Same rubric across all grantees: comparable scoring, distributions, outliers, longitudinal trend lines. Collapses inter-reviewer drift.

Catches what 1D frameworks miss

A prototype can hit PRL 9 (scaled across thousands of classrooms) and still be inequitable. The People and Process ladders surface theory-of-change gaps and equity exposure that PRL alone cannot.