Best Match — which investor would recognise this company

How the badge is decided

Each of the 18 pyramid signals belongs to a guru archetype. For every archetype we count how many of its own signals fired, take that as a ratio, and the highest ratio wins. Ties break on the higher absolute pass count first, then on a fixed order so the answer is deterministic.

The thing to watch

Look at the signal counts in that table, because they are not equal.

An archetype with one signal is at 100% the moment that single signal fires. An archetype with five needs all five. So a company can be labelled "Drucker efficiency" on the strength of one passing test while sitting at four of five on Graham — and the ratio rule, taken alone, would hand the badge to the one-signal archetype.

The absolute-pass-count tiebreak is what stops the worst version of this: a 5-of-5 Graham beats a 2-of-2 Buffett when both ratios are 1.0. But it only resolves ties. A 1-of-1 at 100% still outranks a 4-of-5 at 80%, and that is worth knowing when a badge surprises you.

Read the badge as "of the frameworks we test, this is the one it fits best", not "this is a strong fit".

A fit is not a verdict

If a company matches Buffett Moat at 2 of 2, that means both Buffett-style signals we compute pass. It does not mean the stock is cheap, that Buffett would buy it, or that you should.

The archetype layer is narrative — it tells you which tradition's language describes this company, which is genuinely useful when you are deciding what to investigate next. The empirical layer is PAS. Reading the badge as a recommendation is the single most common way to misuse it.