Maturity

Maturity Ladder

A five-level model of enterprise vendor maturity, with our current status on each rung. Three rungs strong, one partial, one early. This page exists because perceived maturity is what wins enterprise procurement — and the only way to answer the question honestly is to publish the scorecard.

The Ladder

Maturity ladder visualization showing five levels with current status colors: green for Strong (Levels 1-3), amber for Partial (Level 4), red for Early (Level 5)

Why a ladder, not a checklist

A flat checklist would imply each level carries equal weight. The ladder metaphor captures three truths a checklist obscures:

  1. You cannot skip levels. No customers without a product. No production code without a build.
  2. Higher levels amplify lower levels. A Level 5 customer testimonial implicitly validates Levels 1–4. A Level 4 publicly-shared SLA implicitly validates Levels 1–3.
  3. Levels have promotion gates — measurable criteria for moving up. This makes the ladder actionable, not just descriptive.

The ladder works because clearing a higher rung produces validation amplification — a Level 5 customer reference proves Levels 1–4 are working without requiring you to walk through each.

The Five Levels

How this page stays honest

The Level 3 metrics on these pages are auto-regenerated weekly from real audit data, not hand-written summaries:

  • scripts/code-quality-audit.py — seven-dimension code quality scorecard
  • scripts/schema-usage-audit.py — empirical schema-orphan analysis
  • npm audit --omit=dev — production-dependency CVE counts

The page can never quietly drift from reality. If the numbers change, this page changes with them.

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