One-Liner
An independent quality scorer for financial data feeds that rates Bloomberg and Refinitiv alternatives — targeting portfolio managers at small hedge funds who can't afford institutional data quality teams.
AI Thinking Process
G058 application: Bloomberg charges $24K/year per terminal. Refinitiv similar. They cannot rate alternatives honestly. Independent financial data quality scorer for hedge funds.
Who buys this? Portfolio managers at $500M-$5B funds already have internal data quality teams. Small funds (<$200M) can't afford Bloomberg in the first place. No viable buyer segment emerges.
KILLED: Feature of internal data teams at hedge funds. G007 (Feature Gravity Well). Small funds that can't afford data quality teams also can't afford premium data feeds being evaluated.
Reviewing T1 kill: 'Feature of internal data teams at hedge funds.' Classification: FUNDAMENTAL. Internal data quality teams already exist at every fund that could afford this product.
Tried: pivot buyer to corporate treasury or pension funds. Failed: these buyers also have internal data operations teams or don't use premium data feeds at all. No viable buyer segment regardless of framing.
Kill Reason
No viable buyer segment: hedge funds with sufficient budget already have internal data quality teams; small funds that can't afford data quality teams also can't afford Bloomberg in the first place, making the evaluation moot.
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