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Value Acceleration Engine
01 · DIAGNOSE◌
NQoES
Identify the quality, resilience and trajectory of earnings.
Quality of earnings diagnostic
02 · OPTIMISE◫
Optimisation Engine
Assess market growth, competitive positioning and strategic white-space opportunities.
Market intelligence and value-curve strategy
03 · PRIORITISE⚡
Initiative Scoring
Rank strategic initiatives by impact, attractiveness and feasibility.
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04 · REALISE◔
Value Realisation
Rescore NQoES to track value creation progress.
Closed-loop value tracking

NQoES — Market-Calibrated Earnings Quality Diagnostic

Explore fifteen precomputed fictional assessments in the original NQoES interface. Inputs are read-only; the scoring model is not distributed.
Read-only portfolio demonstration · Fictional companies and precomputed scores · The NQoES calculation and Strategy Intelligence model are not in this page.
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InputsInspect fictional financial and customer evidence.
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DiagnoseReview the NQoES result and drivers.
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ReviewCompare trends and market benchmarks.
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Strategy IntelligenceConvert evidence through three human gates.
Overview
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Dashboard
Tracker
Benchmark
Strategy Intelligence
DIAGNOSE • NQoES

Assess earnings quality, resilience and value creation potential.

The NQoES tool converts financial and customer inputs into a structured earnings quality score, helping management teams, investors and advisers identify where earnings are strong, where risk sits in the model, and which areas should be prioritised to improve resilience, predictability and value.

How it works

The model follows a simple structure: familiar operating inputs are converted into normalised metric scores, those metric scores roll into five drivers, and the driver outputs combine into a weighted NQoES result with greater emphasis on earnings strength and customer & revenue quality.

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Inputs

P&L, cash flow, balance sheet and customer inputs are entered in a format that feels closer to a finance pack than a modelling tool.

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Metric scoring

The tool calculates 18 underlying earnings quality metrics and converts each one onto a consistent 0–100 scoring range.

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Driver and total score

Metric scores roll into five drivers and then into a total NQoES score, supported by commentary, charts and tracked snapshots.

What you get

The output is designed to be immediately usable in management, board, diligence and value creation discussions.

Dashboard
A snapshot of the current earnings profile, including overall score, driver scores, radar chart and automated insights.
Report
A structured report with driver-level analysis, metric commentary, implications and suggested actions.
Tracker
Precomputed snapshots over time so movement in earnings quality can be evidenced, compared and discussed with context.

The five drivers of NQoES

Each driver captures a different dimension of earnings quality, with the final score weighted more heavily toward earnings strength and customer & revenue quality.

Earnings strength & trajectory (40%)

Assesses margin quality, historical performance and the credibility of forward growth and earnings progression.

Predictability & volatility (10%)

Assesses how stable earnings are across time, with greater emphasis on seasonality alongside revenue and EBITDA volatility. For seasonality, scores are strongest when the strongest quarter is close to c.25% of full-year revenue.

Cost structure (10%)

Assesses the flexibility of the cost base and how effectively the operating model converts revenue growth into EBITDA growth.

Cash conversion (10%)

Assesses how well reported earnings translate into cash, including working capital intensity and free cash flow conversion.

Customer & revenue quality (30%)

Assesses the durability of the revenue base through concentration, recurrence, contract visibility, tenure and retention dynamics.

Inputs

Setup / context

Basic metadata used for the assessment period, reporting labels and benchmark selection.

Benchmark-ready metadata Used to label years automatically Select the closest peer sector
Guidance: Use the sector that most closely reflects the operating model you want to benchmark against. The current financial year drives the year labels across the tables below.

P&L

Used to derive growth, margin quality, volatility and operating leverage.

3 actual years + current + 2 forecast Enter all values as positives Model deducts costs automatically Currency: GBP (£)
Line item FY-3 FY-2 FY-1 Current FY FY+1F FY+2F
Revenue iDefinition: Total reported revenue for the period.

Input: Enter as a positive value.

Used for: Growth, volatility and margin calculations.
Gross profit iDefinition: Revenue less direct cost of sales.

Input: Enter as a positive value.

Used for: Gross margin and gross margin trend.
EBITDA iDefinition: Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.

Input: Enter as reported, normally a positive value if profitable.

Used for: Margin quality, volatility and cash conversion.
Fixed operating costs iDefinition: Operating costs that are relatively fixed in the short term, such as permanent staff and core overhead.

Input: Enter as a positive value.

Used for: Cost Flexibility and operating model resilience.
Variable operating costs iDefinition: Costs that flex more directly with revenue or volume, such as commissions, traffic acquisition or variable fulfilment.

Input: Enter as a positive value.

Used for: Variable flexibility and cost-structure resilience.

Cash flow

Used to derive cash conversion and free cash flow generation.

3 actual years + current + 2 forecast OCF can be positive or negative Capex should be entered positive Currency: GBP (£)
Line item FY-3 FY-2 FY-1 Current FY FY+1F FY+2F
Net cash from operating activities iDefinition: Reported net cash inflow or outflow from operating activities, often called operating cash flow.

Input: Positive if an inflow, negative if an outflow.

Used for: EBITDA to free cash flow conversion.
Capex iDefinition: Capital expenditure on property, equipment and/or capitalised intangibles.

Input: Enter as a positive number even though it is a cash outflow in the statement.

Used for: Free cash flow and capital intensity.

Balance sheet

Kept intentionally light. This section only asks for the latest two historical years plus current year because the scoring logic mainly needs recent working capital movement and current leverage context.

Latest 2 actual years + current only Enter assets and liabilities as positives Net debt can be negative for net cash Currency: GBP (£)
Line item FY-2 FY-1 Current FY
Trade receivables iDefinition: Trade debtors / receivables outstanding at period end.

Input: Enter as a positive balance.

Used for: Working capital context and consistency checks.
Trade payables iDefinition: Trade creditors / payables outstanding at period end.

Input: Enter as a positive balance.

Used for: Working capital context and consistency checks.
Deferred revenue iDefinition: Revenue billed or collected in advance but not yet recognised.

Input: Enter as a positive liability balance.

Used for: Revenue visibility context and working capital interpretation.
Net working capital iDefinition: Net working capital at period end, usually operating current assets less operating current liabilities.

Input: Enter as positive if the business is funding working capital, negative if the business benefits from a working capital float.

Used for: Working capital drag and volatility.
Net debt / (cash) iDefinition: Debt less cash at period end.

Input: Positive for net debt, negative for a net cash position.

Used for: Leverage context in the benchmark view and future extensibility.

Customer data

Current-year commercial quality inputs used for concentration, durability and visibility.

Current year only Enter percentages as positives NRR can be above 100%

Derived NQoES metrics preview

These are calculated automatically from the simplified statement inputs and feed the NQoES scoring engine.

Gross margin
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Historic revenue growth
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Forward revenue growth
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EBITDA to FCF conversion
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Guidance: Users only enter raw financial and customer data. Ratios, growth rates, volatility measures and the 18 underlying NQoES inputs are all calculated automatically.
Read-only inputs. Select another company or review at the top of the page.
Complete the NQoES diagnosticThe metrics and score for this fictional assessment have been calculated in advance.

Executive dashboard

Company: — • Date: — • Notes: —
This precomputed dashboard shows the selected fictional assessment.
Designed for export as an executive summary.
NQoES (0–100)
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Top strength
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Priority gap
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Driver scorecard

Band colours reflect score quality

DriverScoreBand

Executive interpretation

Decision-ready summary

Summary

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Strengths to lean into

    Watchouts that could impact value

      Recommended actions (next 90 days)

        Driver scores (bar)

        Band colour by driver • Input currency: GBP (£)

        Shape of earnings quality (radar)

        Full driver names (wrapped) • Input currency: GBP (£)

        Continue from diagnosis

        See preloaded examples of the governed interpretation process.

        NQoES tracker

        View dated assessment snapshots over time, including version history for the same company and assessment date.
        The tracker follows the company selected at the top of the page.
        Latest snapshot
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        Change vs previous
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        Snapshots stored
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        Five fictional reviews for the selected company

        Progress by lever

        Line chart of driver scores over time

        History

        Includes driver scores + bands per date

        Date Version Company NQoES Band Earnings Predictability Cost structure Cash Customer Action

        Detailed automated report

        View the report for the selected fictional assessment.

        Precomputed snapshots

        Select a fictional review

        Save an assessment or select a saved snapshot to build the detailed report.

        Sector benchmark

        Select a sector benchmark to compare the current assessment against SEC-derived public company data across the four drivers with benchmark coverage.

        Company benchmarked score vs selected sector benchmark

        Select a sector benchmark to compare the current NQoES assessment against SEC-derived public company data.

        Benchmark note: Customer & revenue quality is excluded from this tab because there is no benchmark data for that driver. The benchmark views, comparisons and spider chart therefore assess only the four drivers with benchmark coverage.
        Company benchmarked score
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        Selected sector benchmark
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        Difference
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        Benchmark sample size (total)
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        Selected sector sample size
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        Driver benchmark overview

        Where the company is ahead, in line, or behind versus the selected sector benchmark across the four benchmarked drivers.

        Driver Your score Sector Difference Signal

        Benchmark spider chart

        Company score shown as a filled area, with the sector benchmark shown as a dashed comparison line. Customer & revenue quality is excluded because there is no benchmark data for that driver.

        Key benchmark insights

        The two most important strategic takeaways from the selected sector comparison.

        Driver-by-driver benchmark review

        Each section shows the driver comparison, the key metric differences that explain the gap, and a plain-English interpretation.

        Threshold reference

        P25 / median / P75 by selected benchmark group

        Metric P25 Median P75 Direction N
        GOVERNED STRATEGY INTELLIGENCE · ILLUSTRATIVE

        From a locked diagnosis to strategic choices.

        Three human review gates connect evidence, exit requirements and responses.

        Preloaded example outputsNo AI generation, live service or recorded approval is used in this demonstration.
        Demo only