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BOM, Materials, and Components
Generic component exposure is insufficient; AI-grade mix, lead time, supply concentration, and design-ins are the real levers.
Framework Changes For ai-opportunity-radar.md
- Add
social_consensus_velocity: how quickly a name's mentions, reposts, and media articles rise relative to new primary industrial evidence. If this rises faster than evidence_velocity, increaseconsensus_priced_score. - Add
primary_evidence_ratio: primary sources / total sources used for a thesis. X screenshots and reposts count low; company releases, customer announcements, filings, earnings calls, and regulator/project documents count high. - Add
design_in_lock_score: whether the component is qualified into a customer architecture with 12-24 month replacement friction, reference-design inclusion, standards compatibility, or reliability certification. - Add
capacity_rights_score: whether customers have purchase commitments, future capacity access rights, LTAs, or scarce foundry/wafer/assembly allocation. - Add
revenue_conversion_gate: for early photonics/CXL/robotics names, require evidence that NRE/design-in is turning into product revenue before core-pool inclusion. - Modify consensus scoring: a stock repeatedly amplified by Serenity-derived threads should default to
consensus_priced_score >= 3unless market cap/liquidity and primary evidence still show real neglect. - Separate
bottleneck_themefrombottleneck_capture: optical interconnect, CXL, HDD, and power can all be real bottlenecks, but individual stock inclusion still needs oligopoly capture.
Scoring Guidance For Next Radar Run
- SIVE:
bottleneck_scorehigh,consensus_priced_scorenow at least 3.5-4,discovery_gaplower than early March. Label:watch_for_pullbackorobservation_high_heat, not core until product revenue and oligopoly capture are independently verified. - STX/WDC: bottleneck real, but consensus score has risen. Label remains
watch_for_pullback; do not upgrade to underdiscovered. - SNDK/SMI: NAND/controller beneficiaries, but commodity-cycle and allocation dynamics matter. Label
cycle_betaunless controller monopoly is proven. - PENG/CXL: evidence velocity improving; monopoly score unclear. Label
execution_optionpending CXL ecosystem capture analysis. - MRVL/AVGO: platform winners, increasingly consensus. Use them as demand/architecture signals; core inclusion requires valuation discipline.
- Power / electrical infra: DCD cancellation strengthens the time-to-power thesis. Raise evidence_velocity for onsite power and electrical equipment; add cancelled/paused project tracking as a primary signal.
Final reminder: Big-account commentary is only a strategy-sample generator. A stock can enter the main radar only after independent monopoly / oligopoly potential reasoning proves that the company captures an unavoidable bottleneck layer.