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How Stack Score works
Stack Score is a quick, self-reported assessment of how a website team publishes, maintains, and scales its work. It turns six answers into a practical next step, not a certification or competitive comparison.
What the score represents
The score reflects how your team works today across Publish, Maintain, and Scale. It highlights the weakest workflow signal so you can focus on one useful improvement instead of trying to change everything at once.
How the score is calculated
Six questions are scored from 0 to 3. Two questions make up each pillar, then the three pillar scores are averaged into a score out of 100.
0–20
Basic
20–40
Shaped
40–60
Refined
60–80
Polished
80–100
Brilliant
0–20
Basic
20–40
Shaped
40–60
Refined
60–80
Polished
80–100
Brilliant
The score uses the same weighting for every team. A public-site scan can make the recommendation more relevant, but it never changes the score.
Limitations
Stack Score is self-reported and describes one team at one point in time. It does not verify your answers, predict business outcomes, or prove that one team is better than another. The highest tier is not the goal. The useful result is the smallest operating change worth testing next.
Recommendations
Your answers identify the workflow that is most likely holding your team back. Stack Score then recommends one bounded first move with a clear owner, scope, guardrail, and definition of done.
How the questions are informed
Stack Score draws on six public sources about website work and AI adoption: Framer State of Sites ’26; UX Tools Design Tools Survey 2024; AI in Design 2026; McKinsey State of AI 2025; Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025; and Harvard Business Review research on AI and work. Its methodology is informed by six further public references: CMMI capability and performance levels; Nielsen Norman Group’s UX Maturity Model; Pew Research Center’s survey methodology; Google Lighthouse performance scoring; W3C accessibility conformance guidance; and AAPOR research ethics and disclosure standards. These sources inform the questions and presentation; only your answers determine the score.
Using your answers
Your answers identify the score and recommendation. Stack Score may use public information from your company website to select a more relevant example. That context never changes your score.
Framer may use your work email to follow up about your result or relevant Agent credits. Outreach is not determined by whether your score is high or low.