The four measures

Measure at the customer. Attribute across the ecosystem.

Entwine scores a partnership on what happened to the customer, not on how busy the partner looked. Four measures are read at the customer; one attribution layer says which parties produced the outcome and in what proportion. Nothing in the arithmetic distinguishes a partner from a customer — only what each party did, and when.

Read at the customer

Every value starts from a customer record — its deals, its needs, its survey answers, its usage. Partner-level numbers are derived from the customers a partner touched, never scored directly.

Withheld, never estimated

Below a minimum sample the value is blank and says why. Entwine does not fill a gap with a default, an industry average or a model guess.

Deterministic and explainable

Each score is plain arithmetic over records you can open. The same inputs always give the same number, and the inputs are one click away from the score.

CDE

Customer Discovery Efficiency

How much faster the ecosystem gets a customer from need to the right solution than they would have managed alone.

Definition

CDE = median days-to-close, direct
      ÷ median days-to-close, ecosystem-sourced

A ratio. 1.0× means ecosystem-sourced deals close no faster than direct ones; 1.8× means they close in a little over half the time. Median, not mean, so one stalled deal cannot drag the number.

What feeds it

  • Closed-won opportunities and their days from creation to close.
  • Whether a party holds the Referrer role on the deal. With one, the deal is ecosystem-sourced; without, it is direct.

What moves it

  • Ecosystem-sourced deals closing faster than direct ones raises it.
  • Referrals that sit in pipeline as long as cold deals pull it back toward 1.0×.
  • Speed only. Whether referred deals win more often is TTI's job.

When it is withheld

  • Fewer than three closed-won deals in either bucket — the ratio is blank and marked Insufficient data.
  • A party that has referred nothing has no CDE at all, rather than a zero.

Reading
Exceptional ≥ 3.0× · Strong ≥ 2.0× · Moderate ≥ 1.5× · Developing below.

TTI

Trust Transfer Index

How much of a referrer's credibility travels with the referral. Conviction, not speed.

Definition

TTI = win rate of deals referred by a party
      ÷ win rate of unreferred deals

A ratio, per referrer. The referrer can be a partner or a customer — same formula. 1.4× means a deal that party vouched for is 40% more likely to close than one nobody vouched for.

What feeds it

  • Every closed opportunity, won or lost. Open pipeline does not count.
  • The party holding the Referrer role on each deal, when there is one.

What moves it

  • A party whose referrals close more often than the unreferred baseline scores above 1.0×.
  • A party that refers everything, and wins at the baseline rate, sits at 1.0× — volume alone earns nothing.

When it is withheld

  • Fewer than three closed deals in either bucket.
  • No unreferred wins to form the baseline — a ratio against zero is not reported.
CSI

Customer Success Index

Is this customer actually succeeding? The customer's own score, 0–10. A partner's number is derived from the health of their customers.

Definition

CSI = weighted mean of
adoption · engagement quality · advocacy · outcomes · sentiment

0–10, per customer. Weighted over the components that have data; a component with nothing behind it is left out and the others are renormalised, never counted as zero.

What feeds it

  • Adoption — the customer's active engagements.
  • Engagement quality — the quality scores recorded on those engagements.
  • Advocacy — references, case studies and testimonials the customer has given, weighted by type.
  • Outcomes — closed-won contract value, on a log scale so one large deal cannot saturate it.
  • Sentiment — the customer's own survey answers, as an experience score.

Equal weights by default; each is a tunable parameter.

What moves it

  • A survey wave landing, a renewal closing, an advocate registering — each lifts its component.
  • A partner's CSI is the mean of their customers' CSI, so the only way a partner's number moves is through customer outcomes.

When it is withheld

  • Fewer than two components have data. The score reads Insufficient data and lists which inputs are missing.
  • A partner with no scorable customers has no CSI.

Reading
Excellent ≥ 8 · Healthy ≥ 6 · At risk ≥ 4 · Critical below.

ECS

Ecosystem Completeness Score

How much of the customer's recorded needs the ecosystem meets. The source of switching cost, and your partner-recruitment brief.

Definition

ECS = needs met ÷ needs recorded
      importance-weighted × 100

0–100, per customer. A critical unmet need costs more than a nice-to-have.

What feeds it

  • The customer's recorded needs (the capability requests captured for them), each with an importance weight. The score is read over what was recorded, not over an imagined total.
  • Which of those requests has reached a fulfilled status through a party in the ecosystem.

Bands

ECSReading
> 80Complete solution — the ecosystem covers what this customer needs.
60 – 80Strong; the gaps are specific and recruitable.
40 – 60Partial; the customer is sourcing elsewhere for real needs.
< 40Thin; switching cost is low.

When it is withheld

  • The customer has no captured needs. An empty list is Insufficient data, not a 100.
  • Nothing is inferred from the customer's size, industry or peers.
Contribution

The attribution layer

Which parties produced this customer's outcome, and in what proportion? A share of 15 weighted points per customer, rolled up to a mean per party.

Definition

15 points per customer, split by lifecycle stage;
a party's share = points earned ÷ 15

Six stages, weighted by how much of the customer's lifetime value they carry. A party present only at acquisition can earn at most one point of fifteen.

×1
Acquisition
×2
Onboarding
×3
Adoption
×4
Retention
×3
Expansion
×2
Advocacy

What feeds it

  • Contributions recorded against the customer's lifecycle stages.
  • The Referrer on a closed-won deal earns at Acquisition.
  • A party alongside the customer in a completed advocacy earns at Advocacy.
  • Each stage's points are split equally among the distinct parties recorded there.

What it says

  • A partner measured purely on pipeline is being judged on roughly one-fifteenth of the value they could create. That arithmetic is the Partnership Paradox, stated precisely.

When it is withheld

  • A customer with no recorded contributions has no points to split, and a party with no such customers has no share.
Tiers

Deterministic scoring on every tier. A monitored relationship buys the per-relationship score.

Portfolio-level signals — the whole book ranked by attention needed, renewals due, stale relationships, coverage gaps — are included on every tier, including Free. The per-relationship scores on this page, and the reasons behind each of them, are kept continuously up to date for the relationships you have flagged for monitoring.

A monitored relationship is one the customer has explicitly flagged for continuous analysis. Monitoring is opt-in per relationship and toggleable by the customer at any time.

An unmonitored relationship still captures everything — every record, document and interaction stays in the workspace. Unmonitor one to free its slot for another.

Free
5
Starter
30
Growth
150
Enterprise
∞

Monitored relationships per tier. Full ladder on the pricing page.

What the numbers on this site are

Every value shown on www.entwineapp.io is illustrative. Inside the product a score is either computed from your records or withheld with the reason shown — Entwine does not estimate, backfill or model a value it cannot read from the data.

See the four measures on your own book.

Free for 5 monitored relationships. Import your customers and partners, flag the relationships that matter, and the scores start from the first record. Prefer a spreadsheet first? Run the definitions on your own data with the Framework Calculator, an Excel workbook that uses the same v1.0 definitions.