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Structured audits evaluate eight areas: data structure, lifecycle stages, automations and workflows, reporting, integrations, segmentation, email performance, and user adoption. A maturity scoring framework rates each area on a 0 to 5 scale. Anything scoring 2 or below signals immediate problems that may require a rebuild of that area. Scores of 3 are candidates for a 90-day optimization roadmap. Scores of 4 or 5 need only monitoring. The symptoms that push toward a full rebuild include: consistent reporting errors that nobody can explain, automations overwriting lifecycle stages, integration conflicts between hubs, data silos across teams, and team-wide reluctance to use the system because they do not trust it. 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