Valuations that show their working

What every valuation shows

Three things travel with every figure: the method, its version and the inputs. With those, anyone can see how the figure was reached and check it against the published method.

Shown with every valuation

Method

Graph Modeling for Valuation

Version

1.0

Inputs

Each one listed beside the figure

What it is

Indicative, not an appraisal

The first method: Graph Modeling for Valuation 1.0

Swomi publishes Graph Modeling for Valuation on contentsignals.co under one name and version, so that anyone who uses it can say which version they used.^⁠[1] Version 1.0 values the relationships an asset holds, such as its readers or subscribers.^⁠[2]

For each relationship it estimates what the relationship brings in each period from now on, counts each later period for less, and adds the results together: the relationship's lifetime value.^⁠[2] Lifetime value is a long-standing marketing measure of what one customer relationship contributes over its whole future.^⁠[3] The method then adds up the lifetime values across the whole graph of relationships, and takes into account how likely each relationship is to last.^⁠[2]

Read Graph Modeling for Valuation 1.0 on contentsignals.co

Versions

A published method changes only with a new version number, and earlier versions stay published.^⁠[1] So a valuation made with version 1.0 can always be read against version 1.0, even after a later version appears.

Graph Modeling for Valuation 1.0 is the first method. Any further method will be published the same way, under its own name and version.

Indicative, not appraisals

A valuation on swomi.io is an indication, worked out by a published method from the inputs it shows. It is not an appraisal, and it is not a promise of what an asset will sell for. Anyone relying on a figure for a decision should get an independent valuation first.