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Market Gaps

Every vertical × function combination that's nearly empty but sits inside an otherwise busy row or column on the Opportunity Matrix. Signal means a launch that showed up here did well anyway. Thin means nothing recent, but something's launched here before. Untested means nobody ever has — that's not proof of demand, just that no one's tried.

Recent window: last 5.3 months (2026-04-28 → 2026-10-06), compared with the prior 5.3 months.

Where the gaps are, by vertical

Vertical Function Attention Recent Ever Status
Agriculture Agent / copilot 0.74 7 7 signal
Insurance Agent / copilot 0.71 8 10 signal
Fintech Model & infra 0.67 5 8 signal
Government Content generation 0.65 2 2 signal
Fintech Hardware & robotics 0.64 1 2 signal
Sales Dev tools 0.64 2 4 signal
Agriculture Content generation 0.58 2 2 signal
Real estate Workflow automation 0.58 26 32 signal
Agriculture Workflow automation 0.54 2 2 signal
Fintech CRM & pipeline 0.53 4 4 signal
Insurance Vertical SaaS 0.53 15 16 signal
Legal Analytics & BI 0.49 4 5 signal
Government Dev tools 0.49 1 2 signal
Government Analytics & BI 0.48 18 29 signal
Horizontal Hardware & robotics 0.47 261 357 signal
Government Agent / copilot 0.43 12 18 signal
Media & entertainment Data infrastructure 0.42 27 32 signal
Energy & climate Workflow automation 0.40 12 14 signal
Energy & climate Agent / copilot 0.38 4 8 signal
Media & entertainment Observability & eval 0.33 19 20 signal
Horizontal Marketplace 0.32 270 357 signal
Horizontal Compliance & governance 0.32 101 127 signal
Government Workflow automation 0.32 9 11 signal
Media & entertainment Compliance & governance 0.32 14 16 signal
Construction Analytics & BI 0.32 8 9 signal
Horizontal CRM & pipeline 0.31 67 80 signal
Agriculture Vertical SaaS 0.31 24 27 signal
Energy & climate Vertical SaaS 0.31 21 24 signal
Real estate Agent / copilot 0.31 12 18 signal
Government Vertical SaaS 0.31 13 16 signal
Fintech Observability & eval 0.31 11 15 signal
Fintech Communication 0.31 11 12 signal
Agriculture Analytics & BI 0.31 11 12 signal
Sales Vertical SaaS 0.31 9 12 signal
Media & entertainment CRM & pipeline 0.31 6 7 signal
Logistics Content generation 0.31 3 3 signal
Energy & climate Content generation 0.31 1 2 signal
Insurance Content generation 0.31 1 1 signal
Insurance Analytics & BI 0.28 4 6 signal
Insurance Workflow automation 0.26 2 5 signal
Insurance Dev tools 0.14 1 1 signal
Legal Dev tools 0.11 3 3 signal
Agriculture Dev tools 0.00 0 0 untested

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