Understanding Your Assurance Score

Your ARI score tells you where you stand. Your Assurance score tells you how much of that standing you can actually prove. They're related but answer different questions, and KlaritiQ keeps them separate on purpose.

Three tiers, never guessed

Every variable behind your readiness score falls into exactly one of three states:

• Proven - backed by a real, uploaded document. The evidence is cited directly, and if it unlocked ARI gain, that gain is a real calculated number, never an estimate dressed up as one.
• Attested - you or a colleague self-reported it as true, but no document backs it yet. It counts, but it's flagged as weaker than proven.
• Gap - never claimed or verified at all. Either nobody's addressed it, or it was answered on an assessment but no evidence has ever backed it up.

Why this matters more than the score alone

A high ARI score built entirely on self-reported answers looks the same on paper as one backed by real documents-until someone asks you to prove it. The Assurance view exists so you can see, dimension by dimension, exactly how much of your readiness is provable versus asserted, and close the gap deliberately rather than by accident.

Turning a gap into proven

The fastest way to move a claim up a tier is to upload the document that actually backs it-a policy, a contract, an audit report. KlaritiQ's extraction reads the document and links it directly to the specific variable it supports. If you don't have a document yet but know the answer is true, self-attesting moves it from gap to attested, a real (if weaker) step forward, honestly labeled the whole way.

Where claims get scoped

Assurance claims are scoped by initiative-when you open an initiative targeting a specific dimension, you see only the claims relevant to that dimension's variables, not your entire org's readiness picture at once. That keeps the view focused on exactly what that piece of work is meant to prove.

The honest version, not the impressive one

KlaritiQ will never quietly round an attested claim up to proven, or invent a positivity judgment where the underlying data doesn't support one. If something can't be classified honestly, it's left as a gap rather than guessed at-because a readiness score that's technically higher but not actually true isn't worth having.

Related articles

Was this article helpful?

Community Questions (0)

Still have questions?