The New European Bauhaus self-assessment guide is not merely an inventory of good design principles. It supplies a hierarchical apparatus through which heterogeneous qualities of the built environment become assessable without being collapsed into a final universal mark. Sustainability, Beauty and Inclusiveness are represented through indicators, key performance indicators and dimensions, adjustable for building, neighbourhood and urban scales and for new construction and renovation. Especially consequential is the refusal to calculate one global score combining the three dimensions: conflict between qualities is preserved at the level where improvements must be negotiated. Beauty includes sensory experience, safety, heritage and cultural acceptance rather than appearance alone; inclusion incorporates accessibility, affordability and social relations. The method therefore bridges engineering assessment, architectural judgement, environmental performance and situated public experience. Its limitation is also productive: indicators can establish accountable descriptions, yet the guide cannot by itself guarantee that locally measured conditions match the experience of particular moving inhabitants, or decide what to do when otherwise valid dimensions favour incompatible futures. For HoodKnows it provides an indispensable comparator, not an empty methodological space to occupy. For The Waiting City it demonstrates why a defensible decision cannot be reduced to a single composite index. The intellectual operation is calibrated non-equivalence: qualities become comparable without becoming interchangeable.