Customer qualification scoring

Sid Chaudhary

Sid Chaudhary

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Build custom Fit & Activity scores using any data point to provide foundational insights on potential customer engagement and conversion likelihood.

About the Growth Play

Customer qualification scoring helps you to prioritize leads and identify high-potential customers by assessing their fit and activity levels. By leveraging custom Fit & Activity scores, you can gain insights into potential customer engagement and conversion likelihood. This use case is crucial for optimizing marketing and sales efforts, ensuring that resources are focused on the most promising leads, and enhancing customer segmentation through Fit & Activity analysis.

Benefits

Improved lead prioritization: Focus on leads with the highest potential for conversion.

Targeted marketing campaigns: Segment customers based on behavior and fit for personalized interactions.

Enhanced customer insights: Understand customer engagement and conversion likelihood through detailed scoring.

Efficient resource allocation: Allocate sales and marketing resources to leads with the highest scores.

Informed decision-making: Utilize data-driven insights to refine marketing and sales strategies.

Increased conversion rates: Implement strategies that align with top leads' identified needs and behaviors.

How it works

Step 1: Create a Qualification Agent

Start by navigating to the Agents section and select Create Agent. Next, choose Qualification Agent, define the fit criteria by identifying key customer attributes such as company size or job title, and assign weights to each based on how strongly they indicate conversion potential.

Enhance the agent's robustness by adding at least three fit categories using the Add category option, each with its own set of conditions and corresponding weight.

Example Fit Agent for Marketing Qualified Leads(MQL)

Example Fit Agent

Step 2: Define the activity criteria

Build an effective activity-based qualification agent by selecting key activity events such as logins, signups, or purchases that signal engagement. Prioritize these actions based on their relevance to different buyer personas.

Assign weights to each event to reflect its importance in evaluating lead quality. Incorporate a decay factor so that the impact of an activity decreases over time unless repeated—ensuring the agent reflects current engagement rather than outdated behavior.

Example Activity Agent for MQL

Example Activity Agent

Step 3: Normalize and calculate scores

Intempt automatically normalizes the assigned weights, so there's no need to ensure they add up to 100% — the system adjusts them proportionally. Based on the defined fit and activity criteria, the platform calculates a score for each lead and categorizes them into "low", "medium", or "high" qualification levels, providing a clear view of lead quality.

Normalize and calculate scores

Step 4: Utilize scores for segmentation and engagement

Segment customers: Use the calculated Fit & Activity scores to create customer segments. For example, group customers into segments like High Fit & High Activity for targeted marketing campaigns.

Segment customers

Implement targeted strategies: Develop personalized engagement strategies based on the segments. For instance, high-fit and high-activity leads can receive premium offers, while lower scores might receive nurturing campaigns to increase engagement.

Implement targeted strategies

Step 5: Track and refine

Continuously monitor the effectiveness of your segments and engagement strategies. Adjust the fit and activity criteria to improve lead qualification and conversion rates.

Step 6: Use the scores in journeys

To build a personalized engagement flow:

Create a journey in the Journeys section.

Set triggers based on Qualification scores—for example, use a high activity score to initiate a nurturing sequence.

Define conditions within the journey (e.g., send targeted emails to leads with high fit but low activity).

Align actions with score levels: high-scoring leads might receive special offers, while lower-scoring ones get educational content.

Regularly monitor the journey's performance and refine strategy based on what drives the best engagement.

Frequently asked questions. Answered.

Fit Score measures how well a lead matches your ideal customer profile based on static attributes like company size, industry, job title, or tech stack. Activity Score measures engagement based on behavioral events like logins, signups, page views, or purchases. Together they tell you not just who looks like a good customer, but who's actually showing interest right now.

Focus on attributes that correlate with your best customers. Company size, industry, job title, revenue range, and tech stack are common starting points. Look at your closed-won deals and identify what those accounts had in common. Those patterns become your Fit criteria. Add at least three fit categories with their own conditions and weights for a robust model.

Decay reduces the impact of an activity over time unless the action is repeated. A login from today matters more than a login from three weeks ago. Without decay, a lead who was active six months ago but has gone silent would still show a high Activity Score. Decay keeps your scoring current so you're acting on recent intent, not stale history.

Based on your Fit and Activity criteria, Intempt calculates a score for each lead and categorizes them into low, medium, or high qualification levels. You can then combine these into segments like "High Fit + High Activity" or "High Fit + Low Activity" for different treatment. The categorization gives you a clear view of lead quality at a glance.

Set journey triggers based on score thresholds or score changes. For example, trigger a sales outreach journey when a lead reaches "High Fit + High Activity." Trigger a nurture sequence when Fit is high but Activity is low. You can also trigger re-engagement journeys when a previously active lead's Activity Score drops, catching churn risk early.

Review quarterly at minimum, or whenever you notice scoring doesn't match reality. If high-scoring leads aren't converting or low-scoring leads are closing deals, your criteria need adjustment. Analyze closed-won and closed-lost patterns. Add new fit attributes or activity events as your product and market evolve. The model should improve as you learn what actually predicts conversion.

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