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Q3 roadmap · New market categories
Jira epic PM-2000 · grooming for tomorrow's new-markets review
Groomed 1h ago

✦ squircle groomed your 9 candidate categories against demand, revenue, effort & resolution risk and sequenced them for Q3. Two slots are locked and 4 are parked with reasons. The last open slot is a real call — that's the one thing for you. Slot 3 → Weather & climate. One step left: lock the sequence for the review. Q3 is sequenced and the squad is briefed — you're ready for tomorrow's review. You picked Live sports — higher demand, but it can't take the slot cleanly yet. Here's the honest blocker. Slot 3 stays open — you kept a capacity buffer. Both candidates remain ranked in the backlog, nothing dropped.

Q3 launch slots
3
Candidates groomed
9 in PM-2000
Unmet searches mapped
14.4k +34% MoM
Active markets now
412 $88M liq.
● NEEDS YOU Q3 · slot 3 of 3 · contested

Two candidates want the last Q3 slot. squircle recommends Weather — but Live sports has higher demand, so it's your call.

The fit score weighs demand, revenue, build effort and resolution risk. Live sports out-scores Weather on raw demand and revenue — but it's blocked: the Genius Sports real-time feed isn't contracted and legal hasn't cleared in-game settlement. Committing a Q3 slot to a blocked dependency risks it slipping. Weather is unblocked, resolves automatically via NOAA — which protects your 99.1% resolution accuracy and 2.3% dispute rate — and demand is real and accelerating.

✦ squircle's pick PM-2031
☁ Weather & climate
From your Jun ideation slate · ready to build
86 fit score unblocked
Lower demand, higher fit — the score already nets out its shorter build and clean resolution.
Unmet demand3,400 +210% MoM
Est. Q3 volume$6.2M
Eng effort4 wks · Eric ok'd
Resolution risklow · NOAA auto
⚠ blocked PM-2044
🏟 Live sports — in-game props
Highest demand · needs a data-feed contract
79 fit score dependency
Unmet demand5,200 +90% MoM
Est. Q3 volume$9.1M
Eng effort7 wks + feed
Resolution riskmed-high · in-game
Fit = Demand 40% · Revenue 30% · Effort 20% (inverse) · Resolution risk 10% (inverse). Live sports leads on demand & revenue (its 79 already counts the 7-week build), but the score can't price the un-contracted Genius Sports feed — that's a go/no-go gate, not a weight. squircle surfaces it instead of burying it in the number. Re-weight if you disagree with the priorities.

✦ squircle scored and sequenced everything else — this is the one call it won't make for you, because "ready now" vs "bigger but blocked" is a judgment about your quarter.

✦ NEXT lock the sequence
✓ Slot 3 → Weather & climate (PM-2031). Live sports stays #1 in the parking lot, flagged for Q4 once the feed is contracted.

Commit the Q3 sequence — file the 3 epics and brief the squad

squircle will set the order in Jira (PM-2000), create build epics for the 3 committed categories with Eric's estimates attached, and post the sequence to #new-markets so Eric, Sanjay and Tom see the plan before tomorrow's review. Aaron gets the one-line readout.

1Sports — major outcomesin build
2Crypto-native — unlock & ETF-flowcommitted
3Weather & climatenew · this commit
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Q3 sequenced — and the squad knows
3 epics filed in PM-2000 · posted to #new-markets · Aaron's readout updated
✦ GET AHEAD proactive · so nothing gets forgotten

Live sports was your strongest demand signal (5,200 searches) — it only lost the slot because its data feed isn't contracted. squircle can file PM-2061 to Eric & Rebecca to scope the Genius Sports deal now, so it's unblocked and first in line for Q4 instead of resurfacing as a surprise.

✓ Filed — PM-2061 assigned to Eric & Rebecca: scope the Genius Sports feed for Q4. That's the roadmap clear.
That's the roadmap clear — squircle won't pile on. Live sports stays ranked #1 in the parking lot below, with its blocker noted, so it can't quietly fall off.
⚠ BLOCKED Live sports · can't commit yet

Live sports is the bigger bet — but the Q3 slot can't lock until the feed is contracted

squircle won't mark Q3 "committed" when slot 3 depends on a deal that doesn't exist yet — that would set the review up to slip. In-game settlement also needs a resolution playbook (your dispute rate is 2.3% today; live props historically run higher). Two things have to clear first:

○Genius Sports real-time feed — not contracted (Salesforce: no active deal)Eric · Rebecca
○In-game resolution playbook — doesn't exist yet (Confluence)Sanjay

✦ Nothing was committed to Q3. squircle is telling you the slot stays open until the dependency clears — not pretending the bet is locked.

✓ PM-2061 filed to Eric & Rebecca to scope the Genius Sports feed. Slot 3 stays open — Q3 is not sequenced yet. squircle will resurface the slot for the review the moment the dependency clears.
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Slot 3 left open — capacity buffer kept
2 categories locked for Q3 · nothing new filed · both candidates stay ranked in the backlog
A buffer is a real choice — it leaves room for an event-driven launch mid-quarter. Weather (86) and Live sports (79) keep their rank, so this doesn't have to be re-litigated. When you want it, .

Q3 — proposed sequence

squircle pre-filled the clear slots · you decide the contested one above
1
Sports — major outcomes · PM-1990
6,800 unmet searches · launching July · Eric building
in build
2
Crypto-native — unlock & ETF-flow · PM-2012
4,100 unmet searches · committed · spec in review
committed
3

Parking lot

squircle deprioritized these — each with a reason & a revisit date

All 9 candidates are accounted for — 2 locked, 1 your call, 4 parked with a reason and a revisit trigger. None sits un-triaged, and nothing below the line silently disappears.

squircle drafts the sequence; only you can commit it. Committed roadmaps post to #new-markets and your exec readout — visible to your squad and Aaron. Parked items and reasons stay on your board.
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