What the Pytheus Index is

The Pytheus Index becomes available to your organization once your cohort has enough participants for the comparison to be anonymous. Until then the surface may not appear in your dock. Your Pytheus contact can tell you where your cohort stands.

The Pytheus Index places your program next to peers who look like you. It answers a different question than your own scores: not how mature you are, but how you sit relative to organizations facing similar conditions.

How it compares

Pytheus builds a peer cohort from organizations in your sector and size band, then computes pooled aggregates for that cohort. You see where you land against the group, expressed as a percentile and a difference from the cohort median. The comparison covers two things: your score distribution standing and your spend standing.

Every figure on the Index is read from pooled, pipeline-computed aggregates. No single peer's data is ever shown, and nothing on the surface is fabricated.

Peer intelligence, not market data

The Index compares real, assessed security programs to each other. It is not a market-pricing feed and not a vendor data set. When it tells you your spend on a tool sits above the cohort median, that median comes from what peers actually record paying, pooled and anonymized, not from a list price somewhere.

Opt-in and anonymized

Participation is consent-based. An organization only contributes to the pool when it opts in, and even then it contributes as pooled counts, never as an identifiable record.

A peer delta is a performance difference, not a gap. Being below the cohort on a capability you have deprioritized is a defensible choice, not a deficiency.

For how the cohort is formed, see How cohorts are built. For the safeguards, see Privacy and suppression.