What the Convo Index actually measures

When you finish a session in Convo, you get a score between 0 and 1000. It's called your Convo Index. But what does it actually measure? And should you care?

What it's not

The Convo Index isn't a measure of how charming, funny, or likeable you are. It doesn't measure your vocabulary or intelligence. It's not a performance grade.

It's a measure of conversational confidence — specifically, how well you're demonstrating the behaviors that confident communicators show when they're under pressure.

The three dimensions

Every session is analyzed across three dimensions:

Recovery — Did you push through stumbles? When you trailed off or lost your train of thought, did you recover or abandon? Recovery is the single best predictor of perceived confidence. People don't notice stumbles — they notice how you handle them.

Composure — Did your delivery stay steady under pressure? This covers pacing, filler words, and whether your voice stayed grounded when the conversation got uncomfortable.

Structure — Did you make clear points? Not perfect points, but points with a beginning and an end. Structure is what separates someone who sounds like they know what they're saying from someone who's just talking.

Why a number

The number matters because progress is invisible when you're in the middle of it. People with social anxiety rarely notice they're improving — they're too focused on what's still hard. The Convo Index shows you the trend line.

A score of 450 that was 380 three weeks ago is meaningful. Even if 450 still feels bad, it's measurably different. That's the point.

What a good score looks like

The average user who's been on Convo for 30 days sits around 600–650. Users who do the daily warmup consistently tend to be 50–80 points higher than those who only do practice scenarios.

The highest scores (800+) belong to people who've been using the app for 90+ days and have pushed themselves into the uncomfortable scenarios — the ones they would have avoided before.

That's the real metric: are you doing the hard thing? The number just tells you it's working.