The Bluethread
Ecosystem Index
A quarterly ranking of platform ecosystems, built from public data. Fifteen ecosystems in coverage. Every score sourced.
Five dimensions, every score sourced.
Partner economics
Margin available to partners across resale, co-sell, marketplace, and services motions.
Co-sell readiness
Sales-team incentives, opportunity-sharing infrastructure, and partner-account matching.
Marketplace velocity
Listing density, transactability, and time-to-first-dollar across cloud and SaaS marketplaces.
Operator depth
Tooling, enablement, and field-led programs supporting partner managers and ICs.
Ecosystem signal
Public commentary, hiring posture, and roadmap evidence of partner-channel commitment.
How the Index is built.
The Bluethread Ecosystem Index ranks platform ecosystems on five dimensions. Each ecosystem in coverage receives a 0–100 score per dimension and a composite weighted score. Weights, raw inputs, and the full source list ship with the report.
Inputs. Only publicly verifiable sources: vendor documentation, partner program pages, marketplace listings, public earnings commentary, hiring data, and developer-platform telemetry. No private briefings, no NDA material, no vendor-supplied scoring.
Scoring. Each dimension is built from 4–8 sub-criteria with explicit rubrics. Scores are normalized within the cohort so the Index measures relative ecosystem health, not absolute scale.
Changelog. Every quarterly update publishes a changelog: scores that moved, why they moved, and what new sources were added. Version history is preserved.
AI assistance. Source aggregation and first-pass synthesis used Claude. All scoring rubrics, weights, and editorial judgments are Bluethread's. Disputes are welcomed in writing — see the report for the correction process.
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