Append after every run so future runs never re-mine the same seam. Being explicit about what's exhausted is what stops the loop degrading into rephrasing existing ideas.
| Seam | Status | Last mined | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual taxonomy (18 branches × 14) | EXHAUSTED | R000 | Produced the seed 252. Do not repeat — it's my imagination, not signal. |
| NAICS 2-digit sectors | NOT STARTED | — | ~20 sectors. Sweep for document-heavy workflows. |
| NAICS 4-digit industry groups | PARTIAL | R004 | 30 rows mined. R001: firearms, alcohol, childcare, senior care, home health, meat processing, funeral, self-storage, collections, title, labs, aviation, drone, waste, hospitality, pharmacy, auto retail. R004: 2382 building-equipment contractors (HVAC, electrical) — CLOSED, 2 of 2 killed to F1: manufacturers, installer networks and AHJs supply the mandated per-job document free. 2381/2383/2389 (roofing, other trades) and 5617 (landscaping, pest, pool) evaluated and judged no-fit without generating — see VERTICALS.md §1. Rest of the seam still far from exhausted. |
| NAICS 6-digit industries | NOT STARTED | — | ~1,000 codes. Reserve for later runs; heavy overlap with 4-digit. |
| Federal Register - final rules, next 12mo | PARTIAL | R001 | 13 rows. Best-quality seam as predicted. Mined: CPPA ADMT/risk assessment/cyber audit, ADA Title II, Section 504, TSCA PFAS, CFPB 1071, FinCEN RRE, FSMA 204. NOT yet mined: CMS, DOE/EPA energy standards, FAR/DFARS, SEC, banking agencies. |
| Federal Register - proposed rules | NOT STARTED | - | 12-24 month lead time. Park these with wake-up dates. CAUTION: the HIPAA Security Rule NPRM (Jan 2025) is the cautionary case - it did NOT finalise on schedule and an idea was upgraded on the assumption it would. |
| State-level compliance deadlines | PARTIAL | R001 | CA and NY only (SB 294, stay-or-pay/TRAP bans, NYC ESSTA, NY Retail Worker Safety Act). TX and FL NOT started. |
| OCR / OSHA / FTC / DOL enforcement actions | PARTIAL | R001 | 21 rows. OSHA sub-seam is EXHAUSTED AND DEAD - every written-program idea dies to filter 1 (carriers give loss control free). FTC advertising sub-seam is the richest surviving vein. DOL wage-hour survives. State AGs NOT started. |
| G2 / Capterra 1–2 star reviews, doc-heavy categories | NOT STARTED | — | Primary complaint evidence + whitespace in one source. |
| r/smallbusiness "does anyone know a service that…" | NOT STARTED | — | |
| Trade-association member surveys (top pain points) | NOT STARTED | — | |
| Document-type x industry cross-product | PARTIAL | R001 | 17 rows. Mechanical and productive but highest duplicate-collision rate of any seam - most discards came from here. |
| Discarded candidate | Collided with |
|---|---|
| DOT Clearinghouse annual query audit | DOT / FMCSA Driver File Compliance Audit |
| Davis-Bacon certified payroll audit | Certified Payroll & Prevailing Wage Audit |
| SEC Marketing Rule review | RIA Marketing & Ad Rule Review |
| Dental claim denial & fee schedule audit | Claim Denial Root-Cause Report |
| Air permit applicability determination | Environmental Permit Obligation Calendar |
| Interconnection study results review | Utility Interconnection Application Review |
| Staffing agency markup leakage review | SOW Scope Creep & Margin Leak Audit |
| Freight broker carrier packet vetting | Supplier Contract Risk Review |
| CBA grievance position paper | Collective Bargaining Agreement Obligation Map |
| A/E standard of care contract review | AIA / Subcontract Risk Review |
| Commercial auto fleet loss run analysis | Loss Run Analysis & Risk Narrative |
| Medicare Advantage denial appeal | Insurance Denial Appeal Builder |
| Policy declaration & endorsement map | SMB Policy Coverage Gap Report |
| Equipment lease vs buy review | Solar PPA / Lease Contract Economics Review |
| Printing / machine shop air permit review | Environmental Permit Application Review |
| Prop 65 60-day notice response packet | folded into Prop 65 Safe Harbor review, then killed |
Flagged adjacencies retained — the closest thing to duplication currently in the database, watch on future runs: SBIR/STTR Reviewer Simulation vs NIH/NSF Proposal Reviewer Simulation; TTB COLA Review vs Product Label Compliance Review; CCPA ADMT vs CCPA Risk Assessment vs GDPR/CCPA Privacy Program Audit. (The HazCom / LOTO / Respiratory / Fall Protection cluster was also a subset of OSHA Written Program Gap Audit, but all five were killed together, so the duplication is moot.)
Tooling gap blocking Tier 3: there is no source of real CPC and search-volume data in this loop. Two runs have now produced zero Tier-3 rows for that single reason. Until it is solved, tier3_minimum_count: 60 is unreachable regardless of research effort.
Screening-only run (Rule 0). No generation seams were worked. The whole run went on clearing the 191-row Tier-0 backlog, so the seam table above is unchanged and every NOT STARTED seam is still available.
Screening cannot be repeated — the backlog is empty. Before generating anything new, apply the sharpened test at generation time rather than at screening time:
Name the party who would fund a free version. Government, commission, or freemium. If you can name one, do not create the row.
Row count is not the constraint and never was. 191 fresh rows died in one run.