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The Absence Audit: venture ideas the market missed
A research ledger tests commercial concepts that appear proven in peer-reviewed literature but largely absent from the market.
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The ledger uses a deliberately adversarial screening process: concepts must beat an incumbent on the buyer's own metric by at least twofold, while cheaper, greener, or biodegradable alternatives do not qualify on preference alone. Costs are recomputed from feedstock, yield, equipment, and incumbent-price inputs, then tested against falling prices, lower yields, and doubled capital. The page reports 659 resolved citations, 184 DOI checks, and eight audit-pass overrides.
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