What exists
The Delphic Question-Market Opportunity Ranking System is a protected method for deciding which mapped buyer-question markets deserve attention first—and which should remain under observation or be deliberately held.
Its unit is not a content idea. It is a question family already connected to the firm's legitimate authority, the available market evidence and an approved disclosure context.
| Record field | Public description |
|---|---|
| Owner | Delphic |
| Unit ranked | A validated question family inside a mapped portfolio |
| Evidence domains | Legitimate authority, estimated demand, AI ownership, credible public supply, attainable potential, commercial relevance, disclosure cost and available response evidence |
| Output | An ordered portfolio with confidence, evidence basis, limiting condition and next-decision status |
| Possible status | Opportunity, observation or deliberate hold |
| Intended use | Directing research, public-evidence work, product investigation and management attention without turning every signal into activity |
This record names the system and the evidence territory it governs. It does not disclose how the ranking is produced.
What this record establishes
A market can look attractive on one signal and weak on another. Demand without legitimate authority may identify a market the firm should not claim. Authority without demand may not justify investment. Headroom without an acceptable disclosure line may not be buildable. A rival win may reflect a structural advantage rather than an opportunity.
The public question-market intelligence framework explains why demand, AI ownership, public supply and treatment evidence must be read together. Potential adds attainable headroom. The private question-market map establishes which families the firm's knowledge can legitimately support.
The ranking system consumes those governed records. Its role is to turn a portfolio containing several plausible markets into an ordered decision record without pretending that every family has equally complete evidence.
An opportunity ranking is therefore not a content calendar. It can direct attention towards a market, require further evidence, preserve observation or recommend restraint.
Access and verification
Application requires a mapped portfolio and the evidence currently available for each family. The protected demand estimator can supply one input where a question-level demand estimate is required; it does not decide the ranking by itself.
The client receives the resulting order together with the visible evidence basis, confidence, limiting condition and next-decision status for each family. The ranking can be reviewed as new demand, supply, position or response evidence enters the Knowledge Index.
The client retains the authority to approve investment and disclosure. The system prioritises the evidence; it does not authorise protected knowledge to become public.
What remains protected
The public record does not disclose the assessment rules inside each evidence domain, the way unlike signals are compared, the treatment of missing or conflicting evidence, the conditions separating opportunity from observation or hold, or the rules that produce the final order.
Those elements contain Delphic's portfolio judgement. The public page establishes that the system exists, what it governs, what it returns and how it can be applied without making the ranking reproducible.