Light, water, soil, nutrients — all at once. Miss one and there is no sprout: not a smaller sprout, no sprout. Then it seeds itself, and the next one costs less. Weather and insects are the part it does not control.
Living at a higher quality takes better tools and a better method — that is what we do: we put a number on every link of the thing you are trying to grow.
Concretely: six facts about you → your own six-link curve, drawn here in your browser in about ten seconds → the one link to fix first, and the single action that fixes it.
Six facts — that is the whole form. It works even if you know nothing, and nobody scores zero on all six.
Free · no account · no email · nothing leaves your browser
391 Chinese cities scored · 570 industries tracked daily · 1,000 country-industry curves · 19 published methods · six links in your own chain
One shape repeats at every scale. Four short ones in order, each closer than the last — the fourth one is you.
Light, water, soil, nutrients — all at once. Miss one and there is no sprout: not a smaller sprout, no sprout. Then it seeds itself, and the next one costs less. Weather and insects are the part it does not control.
A course, a job, a product, a habit — the same shape. Survive first, then get off the ground, then keep going without you pushing every day. Most things die quietly in the middle.
One size up: supply, demand, cash, people — plus the weather outside: competitors, policy, costs, a platform changing its rules overnight. Break one link and the rest cannot make up for it.
Six links: what you can do, money, hours, body and age, content, place. You have what a seed does not — will. But will alone does not make correct judgements.
One thing only becomes valuable once it becomes a chain. Take away any single link and there is no life — not a weaker life, no life. And the difference between you and a seed is that you have will; but will cannot make the right judgement by itself. That is what data is for — it is the only thing that measures how healthy a link really is.
Which period are you in? −1 → 0 · the money is running out · 0 → 1 · I want to start · 1 → 1+ · it will not grow on its own · see the 30-link life chain, drawn as a curve →
Six facts. We do not ask what you are good at — this works even if you know nothing. And nobody scores zero on all six: you cannot have zero hours, zero age or zero place. Asking where you are, instead of what you think of yourself, is the whole trick.
Free · no account · no email · nothing leaves your browser
Two different questions, and we keep them apart. Where do you stand today is read straight off the public threshold table below — one reading is enough for that, and it is what the line above answers. Which link is not moving is a question about direction, and a direction needs three dated readings — so it waits for the chart below. A single reading is never called evidence here.
Your score is not self-rated and not dragged by you: it is read off this table, so every person is measured with the same ruler and the dots can sit on one chart. It is v1 — set by us, published here so you can argue with it, and it will be revised once enough real records come back (a person’s position today, checked against what actually happened to them later).
| Link | Type | How the score is set (v1) |
|---|---|---|
| Skill | variable | 1 no professional skill and no steady work history · 2 everyday or household skills you could move into work · 3 a trade or a licence (cook, care work, nails, driver) · 4 a professional title, or experience leading a team · 5 rare expertise, years deep in one thing |
| Money | variable | 1 under $100 · 2 $100–$1,000 · 3 $1,000–$10,000 · 4 $10,000–$100,000 · 5 over $100,000 |
| Time | variable | hours you can give on an average day: 1 under 1h · 2 1–2h · 3 2–4h · 4 4–8h · 5 over 8h |
| Content | variable | 1 you cannot really use a phone or computer for this · 3 you can shoot and post but cannot edit · 5 you can shoot, cut and finish a piece on your own |
| Body | given | 1 65 or over · 2 55–65 · 3 40–55 · 4 30–40 · 5 in your 20s, plenty of energy |
| Place | given | 1 rural or remote · 2 a small town · 3 a county town · 4 a small-to-mid city · 5 a big city |
Two of the six are given conditions: you cannot train your body back to 25 and you cannot move your town this month. They are not on the list to be fixed — they are there to tell you which roads not to take. The other four are the ones you can actually move, and they are the only ones the conclusion above is allowed to point at.
This is what the paid report holds. Written for one person, not for a crowd, and every line of it can be traced back to a source and a date.
Free first, and the free part is complete on its own.
Our data is alive.
For professionals: the full datasets — the China 386-city opportunity landscape, the city-industry matrix, the world opportunity set → Datasets & prices →
The calculation above is complete on its own — nothing is held back behind an account. An account buys you one thing: the console where your chain keeps growing, one dated reading at a time, so tomorrow it has one more line on it than today.
Where this honestly stands today: the console backend is live. Your chain is now stored on our server, not in your browser — so it is still there when your computer is off, and it follows you by one address you keep. There are still no accounts, and we still never ask for an email: the address itself is the key.
This link is your console — keep it. No email, no account. There is no password to reset and no inbox to find it in — if you lose the link, it cannot be recovered.
Three things we do that most score-providers do not.
19 published methods, plain language, one page each. Each card says what kind of problem it solves and the situation you would use it in — grouped in the order you actually need them. Every method page also carries a real-data curve and names where its numbers come from.
Come out knowing: whether the demand is real, where the money is leaking, and how many months you have.
Come out knowing: where you stand, which road is actually yours, and whether this is worth doing at all.
Come out knowing: whether the crowd can grow by itself, and what you can stop paying for.