How we calculate your match.
Every percentage on Xyntal comes from the same matching on our server – in the app and on the website. Here's what goes into it, how much, and what never does.
The calculation in one sentence
Match = weighted areas + plus points − minus points − risk deduction − uncertainty deduction
The result is always between 0 and 100. It's deliberately not an average: an area where you fit perfectly doesn't simply cancel out one where things are stuck. And the same details always give the same number – there's no randomness and no paid placement.
1. Ten areas instead of one number
For every person, Xyntal calculates ten areas from 0 to 100. Under every suggestion you see them one by one, with the reason.
- Vision
- Do you want to build the same thing? Shared goals count a little more than shared interests. If you're both after something long-term or co-founding, there's a bonus.
- Complementary skills
- Do your skills and tech stack cover different roles – say, engineering and design? Two very similar profiles complement each other little and get at most 45 here.
- Execution
- How actively the person builds: last activity, messages in the last 30 days, finished tasks in their workspaces and reviews from collaborators.
- Intent
- Are you looking for the same kind of collaboration? Co-founding and co-founding fit fully, mentor and mentee too, co-founding and short-term help hardly at all.
- Trust
- Verification, a complete profile, reviews and shared spaces – minus open reports and blocks.
- Communication
- Shared languages, how well your work styles fit when you talk, and whether the person has been reachable lately.
- Availability
- Does your time fit: “Open”, “Limited” or “Heads-down” and the hours per week. The closer you are, the higher the value.
- Project need
- Does the person bring what a project or team is missing right now? Only counts when it's about a project or workspace.
- Personality
- How your results from the Work-style test complement each other – two people who both only push ahead aren't automatically the best team.
- Long-term potential
- Do shared goals, your intent and steady activity point to working together for longer?
If one side has no data for an area, it doesn't count and the other areas are scaled up. Missing data does cost confidence, though (see below) – so an almost empty profile can't fake a safe 90.
2. How much an area counts
That depends on what you both chose under “What are you looking for right now?”. If you're both after co-founding, vision and long-term potential count more; for mentor and mentee, skills and communication; if both want to contribute or help short-term, mostly execution. Otherwise the general split applies.
| Area | General | Co-founding | Mentoring | Execution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vision | 15 % | 20 % | 10 % | 8 % |
| Complementary skills | 15 % | 15 % | 20 % | 15 % |
| Execution | 15 % | 14 % | 8 % | 25 % |
| Intent | 10 % | 12 % | 12 % | 10 % |
| Trust | 10 % | 10 % | 15 % | 10 % |
| Communication | 10 % | 6 % | 15 % | 10 % |
| Availability | 8 % | 5 % | 10 % | 12 % |
| Project need | 7 % | – | – | – |
| Personality | 5 % | 8 % | 5 % | 5 % |
| Long-term potential | 5 % | 10 % | 5 % | 5 % |
Each column adds up to 100%. The explanation of a suggestion shows for each reason how much it counts.
3. Plus and minus points
Then come small, fixed additions and deductions for things the areas alone don't show:
- +4 Similar long-term goals (at least two shared goals)
- +4 Strongly complementary roles
- +3 Recently active (in the last 7 days)
- +3 Good experience together (good review or already in touch)
- +2 Both profiles very complete
- +2 You saved the suggestion
- −15 Open reports or blocked by several people
- −10 Very sparse profile (less than 30% filled in)
- −10 Gone for over 90 days and not writing
- −8 Inactive for over 60 days or hard to reach
- −6 Your available time doesn't fit
- −5 Different intent
- −5 Skills only overlap instead of complementing each other
4. Risk and confidence
Risk estimates how likely a match is to disappoint: long inactivity, no messages, a sparse profile, different intent or time. An ordinary risk costs at most 12 points. Only open reports or several blocks can cost up to 35 points.
Confidence says how much information is behind the number: how complete both your profiles are, how many areas have data, and whether there's activity and common ground. If it's low, Xyntal deducts up to 8 points and shows the note “Few details”.
5. Who gets suggested to you
The match shown is the same everywhere – in the list, under “Saved” and in the explanation. For the selection and order of suggestions, Xyntal adds two more things:
- a small bonus for new or currently active members (at most 12 points), so you meet people who actually reply,
- what you say with “Not a fit”: profiles similar to a hidden one move a little further back (at most 15 points).
People are suggested from 65 points (with this bonus and deduction) – or when your work styles are very similar. Members with a public Xyntal card always appear.
Never suggested: people you hid, people with a block between you (no matter who blocked), and profiles set to “Private” or “Team only” if you don't share a workspace.
6. What never goes into the number
- Your plan. Paid accounts at most get an explanation worded by Xyntal AI – the numbers behind it are the same.
- The content of your messages. Matching only counts whether someone has written lately.
- What someone looks like, name, age, gender or origin. Whether there's a profile picture only counts towards how complete the profile is.
- How many followers someone has.
7. How your suggestions get better
- In your profile under “Matching” fill in goals, interests, skills, languages, availability and “What are you looking for right now?”.
- Take the Work-style test – only then do personality and part of communication count.
- Tell us why when a suggestion doesn't fit. The order learns from it.