Search & Discovery Quick Assessment

What stage is your B2B search at?

Find out how well your search experience helps buyers find the right products and what's holding it back.

Free · No preparation required
15
questions
~4 min
to complete
Instant
stage result
Preview of the Search & Discovery assessment results report, showing your maturity stage, capability scores and focus areas

The maturity model

Five stages, from exact-match to intent-driven

Your answers place your organization on the B2BEA Search & Discovery Maturity Model, so you know where you are today and what the next stage looks like.

Stage 1

Exact Match

Stage 2

Fuzzy Match

Stage 3

Semantic

Stage 4

Conversational

Stage 5

Intent-Driven

Sample assessment results on a laptop, showing overall maturity stage, scores across five capabilities, biggest opportunities and focus areas

Your personalized results

A clear read, the moment you finish

  • Your overall maturity stage

    Where you sit on the five-stage model today.

  • Scores across five capabilities

    Your strongest areas, side by side with the weakest.

  • Your two biggest opportunities

    The gaps most likely holding buyers back.

  • What to focus on next

    Practical guidance your team can act on.

What it covers

Six areas that decide whether buyers find what they need

  • 01

    Zero-result searches

  • 02

    Part numbers and descriptive queries

  • 03

    Industry language and synonyms

  • 04

    Product data and attributes

  • 05

    Ranking and personalization

  • 06

    Ownership and performance measurement

Built for manufacturers & distributors

B2B buyers don't search like consumers

They search by part number, technical term, application and real-world problem. This assessment shows whether your search supports those behaviors or makes customers work harder than they should.

  • Part numbers
  • Technical terminology
  • Applications
  • Real-world problems

A practical planning tool, not a leaderboard or competitive benchmark.

A buyer searching for a hydraulic pump on an industrial distribution site, with matching results for part number, terminology, application and problem
Richard Isaac, Global Director, Search & Discovery

Want to go deeper?

Talk through your results with Richard Isaac

Global Director, Search & Discovery, and author of the Maturity Model. Book a free discovery call to explore what's affecting your search experience and where your team should focus next.

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See where your search stands today

What's working, where the gaps are, and what to examine next.