Scan 100 industries.
Surface the 20 high-margin workflow gaps worth building.
Vestigium is an autonomous opportunity scanner for venture studios, corporate strategy teams, and pre-PMF founders. We audit more than 100 verticals and 300 incumbent software products, score each candidate workflow across seven weighted dimensions, and only advance items that clear a strict 8/10 composite threshold.
- Surface
- 100+
- Threshold
- 8/10
- Output
- 20
verticals audited
composite cutoff
shortlist items
- 01Audit-evidence continuity (aerospace)9.1Brief ready
- 02Cross-jurisdictional escrow reconciliation8.9Brief ready
- 03First-notice-of-loss triage (specialty)8.6Brief ready
- 04Probate filing continuity8.4Brief ready
- 05Engagement-level client reviews8.2Below threshold
- 06Multi-site HIPAA gap remediation7.9Held for re-run
Composite walks: 9.1 → 7.9 · cutoff 8.0
One continuous pipeline. A ranked deck of deployable gaps every quarter.
A surface audit across regulated mid-market — aerospace compliance, healthcare audit readiness, legal and probate, specialty insurance claims, cross-border real estate escrow, and high-stakes professional services — ranks every candidate workflow, holds anything below the composite cutoff, and packages the survivors one-page-at-a-time for a partner, studio, or founder to inherit.
Buying cycles run six to twelve months in these verticals. Failure costs comfortably support $20K–$250K annual contracts. That asymmetry is why the surface is restricted to it.
From a 100-vertical surface to a 20-item shortlist.
The funnel keeps the audit honest. Every stage has an explicit cutoff — and at the end, anything that didn’t clear 8/10 goes back into the pipeline rather than onto a partner’s desk.
Verticals audited
across regulated mid-market
Incumbent SaaS products mapped
against current stack
Candidate workflows surfaced
where AI can run end-to-end
Deployable opportunities
cleared the 8/10 threshold
Seven dimensions. One composite. Nothing advances under 8/10.
Willingness to pay, competitive intensity, customer acquisition difficulty, technical feasibility, regulatory risk, gross margin, and time to first dollar collapse into a single weighted index. The weights below are the current pipeline default; a brief always carries the live breakdown, not a summary.
- Willingness to pay22%
Transaction ≥ $500 or failure ≥ $5,000
- Gross margin18%
No inventory · no marketplace dependency
- Time to first dollar16%
Buying cycles compressed where possible
- Competitive intensity14%
No dominant SaaS equivalent
- Customer acquisition difficulty12%
Channels inside the industry, not outside it
- Technical feasibility10%
End-to-end agent with no heavyweight infra
- Regulatory risk8%
Compliance overhead priced into the contract
Six regulated mid-market verticals — and the workflows that hold them back.
The shortest path to high-margin gaps runs through markets where the failure is expensive, the buyer has a budget line for it, and the buying cycle refuses to compress below six months.
Audit-grade traceability on every supplier revision for AS9100D programs; failure costs certification.
Continuous HIPAA / SOC2 evidence collection and gap remediation across multi-site provider networks.
Document review and case-file continuity for matters where a missed filing pauses statute of limitations.
First-notice-of-loss triage, evidence chain assembly, and reserving decisions where delay is paid out-of-pocket.
Cross-jurisdictional KYC, document reconciliation, and disbursement gating on six-figure transfers.
Engagement-level quality control, partner-review prep, and client deliverable continuity.
Continuous pipeline. Quarterly cadence. No re-engagement paperwork.
Vestigium replaces analyst-led gap-research retainers from firms like Unbuilt Lab or Forum VC. A retainer locks you into a single four-to-eight-week narrative; the pipeline keeps re-scoring in the background and ships a fresh ranked shortlist every quarter.
- · 4–8 week engagement
- · Single deck delivered, then dormant
- · Surface budget per engagement
- · Re-run billed as a new retainer
- · 100+ verticals, re-scored continuously
- · Composite enforced, 8/10 cutoff
- · Quarterly ranked shortlist of 20
- · Vertical add-ons rolled in per batch
The questions that come up before the first shortlist ships.
Brief the team for the Q3 ship.
Tell us which verticals to weight, what your studio’s buying appetite looks like, and when you want the next ranked shortlist on a partner’s desk. We respond from vestigium@polsia.app.
Continuous audit pipeline · 100+ verticals · 8/10 composite cutoff · quarterly ranked shortlist.