Market Scan Constraint Loop

Preamble

Market Scan Constraint Loop makes external research pay rent. A scan earns attention when it changes a constraint, decision, hypothesis, source priority, domain chip, product gate, or roadmap choice.

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Research Has To Move Something

Competitor notes and market links can pile up while the Factory keeps building the same thing. The loop asks what the scan changed.

A useful scan may narrow a wedge, reject a segment, add a source, update a domain chip, change a spec gate, move a roadmap item, or preserve a rejected path with a reason. The result has to land in the system, not stay as a research mood.

The scan matters when future work behaves differently because the outside world entered the room.