ReallySolved · Scoring system
1 headline number for how good you are — built from 4 real signals, climbing a 5-step ladder from Contributor to Solver Laureate. Here's exactly how it works.
The total is never shown naked — always with its S · T · A · R breakdown, so it's always clear what earned it.
The 4 letters
4 signals, added together. Each one measures a different, honest thing — so no single move can inflate your score on its own.
Sought
Demand for your answers — how much buyers & the market want what you know. Passive on purpose; it's the smallest slice so it can never be farmed to a big score.
Trusted
Your delivery track record — earned over time as you complete acknowledged engagements. Grayed in place until you've delivered, then it becomes the heaviest signal.
Activity
Engagement & referrals folded into 1 number — searches, notebook entries, friends you bring who subscribe. Your fastest early mover toward the next tier.
Real IQ
Upvoted correctness & competence — the "(upvoted)" signal. It compounds and never drops, rewarding people who are simply right, over & over.
Your headline STAR-IQ = S + T + A + R. We always show the total with the 4-part breakdown — never a naked number — so anyone reading your profile can see what's behind it.
The tier ladder
Each tier is ~10× the last — a smooth ×10 climb. The steps below are drawn as equal visual jumps (a true-to-scale axis would shrink 100 next to 1,000,000 into nothing), labelled with the real thresholds.
Each step = ×10 the one before it. Equal visual steps, real numbers.
The climb
Real, blended paths — not a single grind. The bottom is fast & attainable; the top stays unfakeable, gated on real delivery & real payment.
| Tier | What it takes | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Contributor100 | Sign up + 1 search or note. Your first session. | Minutes |
| Solver1,000 | 2 friends who subscribe, or ~10 notes + activity + a couple upvotes, or 1 small acknowledged job clears it. | Days |
| Senior Solver10,000 | 1 acknowledged engagement (any size), or ~20 paying referrals, or a strong month of upvoted work + a dispute win. | Weeks–months |
| Master Solver100,000 | ~4 large / ~8 medium acknowledged engagements, blended with disputes & upvotes. A serious year of delivery. | ~A year |
| Solver Laureate1,000,000 | ~40 large / ~80 medium over a career, plus sustained R & S. The rare top-of-field capstone serious buyers seek first. | A career |
The points schedule
Every action maps to 1 of the 4 letters. T & R (real delivery + real competence) out-earn A; S stays the smallest, so demand alone never buys a high score.
| Action | Points |
|---|---|
| Referrals | |
| Referred friend activates / pays (uncapped) | 500 |
| Referring a friend who signs up | 75 |
| Search | |
| Correcting an AI mistake (flagged + accepted) | 100 |
| Using the multi-search tool (1 session) | 10 |
| Notebook | |
| AI-classifier "high quality" tag | 300 |
| Building / saving a notebook entry | 40 |
| Quick-start bonus (first entry, 1-time) | 500 |
| Expert Solvers | |
| Company-acknowledged engagement — large | 25,000 |
| Company-acknowledged engagement — medium | 12,000 |
| Company-acknowledged engagement — small | 5,000 |
| Dispute resolved in your favor | 4,000 |
| Winning a stump-the-models challenge | 3,000 |
| Peer-review upgrade | 1,000 |
| Upvoted answer | 150 |
| Repeat-client bonus | +25% |
| Demand & Sales | |
| Buyer purchases / unlocks a paid answer | 250 |
| Demand-radar match | 75 |
| Being shortlisted by a buyer | 50 |
| Buyer views full profile | 25 |
| Appearing in a company search result | 5 |
Repeat-client bonus adds +25% of the base engagement points. Daily / monthly caps apply to some actions to keep scores honest.
See it in action
A sample solver card, so you can picture your own. Numbers here are illustrative.
Adds up to 340,000 — a Master Solver whose weight sits in Trusted (delivered engagements), backed by strong Real IQ. Exactly the profile serious buyers reach for first.
Honest pre-launch note. Every figure on this page is illustrative and pre-launch. Several point sources — company-acknowledged engagements & the buyer / marketplace actions (Demand & Sales) — aren't live yet, because the buyer & engagement backend is still being built. Read this as "here's how STAR-IQ will work," not "here's what's live today." No income is promised; earnings vary and are never guaranteed.