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Engraving of an astrolabe-like instrument with twelve dials
Every scored project carries 12 signals under scores.*, each a float from 0 to 10. total is their plain sum — no weighting — with a theoretical max of 120.

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The signals

KeySignalA high score means
githubActivityGitHub activityCommits are recent and frequent; the repo is alive.
githubQualityGitHub qualityCode and repo structure look engineered, not hackathon-glued.
brandingBrandingName, visual identity, and narrative are clear and memorable.
countryCountryOrigin market favors distribution and credibility.
teamExperienceTeam experienceFounders have shipped before; credible track record.
ideaUniquenessIdea uniquenessFew or no direct competitors in the cohort.
ideaQualityIdea qualityThe idea is sound and solves a real problem well.
ideaIdeaOverall concept strength (the desk’s holistic idea read).
socialActivitySocial activityReal audience and engagement on X.
noTokenNo-tokenInverted — see below.
fundingFundingInverted — see below.
additionalAdditionalManual bonus from the research desk (0–3 observed).
Two signals are inverted — absence scores high.
  • noToken = 10 → no token exists yet. That is an opportunity signal (clean entry, nothing launched), not a defect.
  • funding = 10 → not yet heavily funded. Same logic: room left.
Filtering for noToken >= 8 finds pre-token projects, not token projects.

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Feed calibration (current dataset, 2026-06-11)

Observed distribution across the 120 published projects — use these to set realistic thresholds:
SignalMinMaxMean
githubActivity0.08.255.3
githubQuality0.010.04.3
branding2.09.07.3
country3.010.07.4
teamExperience2.58.05.4
ideaUniqueness1.510.07.5
ideaQuality3.58.56.9
idea3.09.57.3
socialActivity2.09.56.2
noToken2.010.09.8
funding8.010.010.0*
additional0.03.00.1
* rounded; nearly every published project is unfunded — funding barely differentiates within the feed. Reading the table: a teamExperience of 8.0 is the feed maximum, not 80th percentile. noToken and funding are near-saturated in the published feed, so screens should lean on the signals that actually spread: GitHub, social, branding, team.

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The three pillars

The desk’s rubric groups the signals into three questions:
  1. Product quality — demo reality, technical depth, differentiation (githubActivity, githubQuality, ideaQuality, idea, ideaUniqueness).
  2. Founder signal — shipping history, credibility, follow-through (teamExperience, socialActivity, country).
  3. Branding — name, identity, narrative, attention potential (branding).
Timing signals (noToken, funding) and the manual additional bonus sit on top.