The most common question we get is essentially: “Score 8.1 — should I buy?” The honest answer is that the score cannot answer this, and it is not meant to.
The MoatLens Score measures eight quality factors of a company: how profitably it works, how stable the margins are, how it handles debt, how reliably cash flows out of the operating business. It describes the business. What it deliberately does not know is the price the market is asking right now — the AI in the app never even sees the quote.
That separation is intentional, for two reasons. The first is legal: an app that issues buy or sell recommendations operates in a completely different regulatory frame. The second matters more: quality and price are two separate questions, and mixing them means never learning to answer either one cleanly.
An outstanding company can be a poor investment if too much is paid for it. A mediocre one can work out if it is given away. That trade-off is the actual core of investing — and it belongs to you, not to a number.