Forest Score

Forest Score is the single headline number for your program, on a 0 to 100 scale. It exists because maturity alone does not tell the whole story. A program can be mature on the wrong things, leave large areas unassessed, or set targets it never executes against. Forest Score folds those factors in.

What goes into it

The Forest Intelligence Service combines four weighted inputs:

• Org Score (50%) — your criticality-weighted maturity across in-scope capabilities.

• Goal alignment (20%) — how well your current state tracks against the targets you set.

• Capability coverage (15%) — how much of the relevant capability surface you have actually assessed.

• Execution discipline (15%) — whether you are following through on the roadmap and recommendations in front of you.

Maturity carries half the weight because it is the truest measure of how your program performs today. The other three keep the number honest, so a high Org Score cannot mask thin coverage or stalled execution.

Why it matters

Forest Score is built for the conversation with leadership where you need one defensible figure. Because each input is explicit and weighted, you can always decompose the number and show what is pulling it up or holding it back.

If your Forest Score trails your Org Score, the gap usually lives in coverage, alignment, or execution. Look there before reassessing maturity.

Org Score is detailed in Org Score, and the reasons this number stays stable run by run are covered in why scores are deterministic.