A number is evidence, everything else is a claim
A bullet counts as quantified when it contains any digit that is not a bare year. That exclusion matters: every line in an employment history carries 2021 or 2024, and a date is not a result. Counting years would score a resume of pure duties as though it were full of proof.
Compare two versions of the same job. “Responsible for managing the vendor payments process” tells a recruiter nothing about scale or outcome. “Cut vendor payment cycle time from 18 days to 6 across ₹2.4 crore of annual spend” says the same thing with three numbers, and only the second survives a thirty-second skim.
The check fires when fewer than three in ten bullets carry a number. That threshold is deliberately low. Some lines genuinely have nothing to count — a certification, a language, a tool you own. The problem is the resume where nothing at all is measured, because then every claim rests on the reader taking your word for it.