Balanced
50 catalyst points, 30 owner-behavior points, and 20 buy-box-fit points.
METH-SCORE · RESEARCH PRIORITY v2.0
A review order you can reproduce.
Acren ranks commercial properties by recorded public-record evidence — including distress, ownership, entity, and debt records. It does not predict sale probability, estimate value, or infer anyone's intent. Research Priority uses disclosed weights and deterministic tie breakers. Evidence confidence is a separate measure and never changes the priority score.
- Define the buy box
Market, asset class, value, size, tenure, owner, and record filters determine eligibility.
- Score eligible records
Every eligible property is scored before the review limit. Qualified, dated evidence contributes points inside owner-circumstance evidence, owner-behavior, and asset-fit pillars.
- Separate priority from confidence
Unknown evidence receives no points, checked-but-not-observed evidence is labeled separately, and evidence confidence never multiplies or changes priority.
- Order and explain
The total, every factor state, source date, missing input, confidence measure, and deterministic tie breaker are persisted with the run.
Balanced preset weights.
| Pillar | Weight | Recorded inputs | Evidence treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recorded catalysts | 50 points | Explicit current tax delinquency and a qualified recorded mortgage maturity in the next 12 months | Unknown is distinct from checked and not observed; a recent refinance reduces priority by 5 points |
| Owner behavior | 30 points | Recent source-qualified dispositions, recorded tenure, and out-of-state owner mailing | Disposition history carries most of this pillar; tenure and absentee status are deliberately low-weight proxies |
| Buy-box fit | 20 points | The property passed every configured market, asset, value, size, tenure, owner, and record gate | Fit is eligibility evidence, not a claim about willingness to transact |
| Corroboration | Up to 10 points | Independent tax plus maturity evidence, or recent dispositions plus a long recorded hold | Points require both qualifying observations; historical lien and foreclosure counts remain context only |
| Evidence confidence | 0 to 100, separate | Source freshness and whether tax, mortgage, disposition, tenure, and owner evidence can be evaluated | Reported beside priority and never used as a multiplier |
Preset choices.
Distress first
65 catalyst points, 20 owner-behavior points, and 15 buy-box-fit points.
Long hold
40 catalyst points, 40 owner-behavior points, and 20 buy-box-fit points.
Fit first
35 catalyst points, 20 owner-behavior points, and 45 buy-box-fit points.
Heuristic priority bands.
| Band | Score | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Higher heuristic priority | 70.00 to 100.00 | Multiple qualified factors support earlier review within this saved buy box. |
| Review priority | 45.00 to 69.99 | Some qualified differentiating evidence is present. |
| Lower heuristic priority | 0.00 to 44.99 | Qualified catalysts are neutral, absent, or not yet observable. |
The advanced catalog is larger than the active score.
The factor catalog is broader than the production model. Only the factors disclosed above affect Research Priority v2.0. Historical liens, historical foreclosures, and owner legal form are context only until active status, dates, and outcome calibration qualify them. Additional factors require a recorded factor-level lift test before activation.
Classification is separate from opportunity scoring.
Property classifications are shown as Verified, Likely, or Unverified. Verified requires a held-out labeled test set that meets a recorded market gate. Likely means recorded use fields support the class but held-out accuracy has not cleared that gate. Unverified means the available fields are insufficient or conflicting. These labels are evidence tiers, not probabilities.
What the score refuses to claim.
No seller-intent prediction
A high score does not mean an owner intends to sell.
No current-debt claim
A stated maturity is historical recorded evidence, not proof of a current balance, payoff amount, or active obligation.
No investment recommendation
The score is a research queue, not underwriting or valuation advice.
No silent imputation
Missing evidence is visible as unknown and receives no points. It is never converted into a negative observation.
No retroactive rewrite
Historical runs retain their model version, preset, factors, and source dates.
No measured-accuracy claim without labels
Market classification gates remain unevaluated until genuine held-out review data exists.
Responsible use
Responsible boundary
Responsible boundary. Not for FCRA-regulated use. Acren organizes commercial-property and business-entity records and ranks research priority from recorded evidence. It does not predict intent, provide valuation or underwriting, or support consumer-eligibility decisions.
Responsible use
Source trail required
Every recommendation must carry source trails, field-level rights status, and open questions.
Responsible use
Review before action
Customers are responsible for verifying records before outreach, capital, or workflow decisions.
Responsible use
Display rules built in
Customer-facing, summarized, internal-only, and withheld fields stay visible as product controls.
Auditable acquisition research
Bring a buy box and review the evidence behind every rank.
Acren keeps eligibility, scoring, classification, and source evidence separate so acquisition teams can challenge each decision directly.
Next step
Start with your market and buy box.
Responsible boundary. Not for FCRA-regulated use. Acren organizes commercial-property and business-entity records and ranks research priority from recorded evidence. It does not predict intent, provide valuation or underwriting, or support consumer-eligibility decisions.