Commercial readiness is the state commercial validation reports on: how far the evidence behind a commercial case has been taken, stage by stage, and where it stops. There is no score at which a startup becomes commercially ready. The engine reports the evidence behind each stage and its limits, and the commercial decision stays with the founder.
It is not a pitch deck, which is a narrative. It is not a market-size estimate, which says a market exists but not that a buyer will act. It is not user interest, which costs the buyer nothing. And it is not product-market fit, which is measured after a product has customers.
Across the same six stages the engine runs: 1. True Validation, 2. Buyer Precision, 3. Buyer + Offer, 4. Revenue Funnel, 5. Market + Funnel, 6. Commercial Decision. Each stage returns the evidence found and its limits. True Validation tests public market evidence only: whether the problem is real, visible and urgent. It does not prove buyer budget, willingness to pay, offer fit, acquisition economics or full commercial viability.
Commercial validation is the process; commercial readiness is what that process reports on. The canonical definition of commercial validation is at /commercial-validation.