Pain strength
Repeated severity, persistence, blocked workflows, and workaround behavior increase confidence that the problem is material rather than incidental.
Research guide / Prioritization
What an opportunity score means.
BuildSift scores qualified opportunities to prioritize review. The score summarizes the available evidence and risk model; it is not a fabricated measure of market size.
Evidence quality
Independent users, independent discussions, source diversity, recency, and direct traceability determine how much weight a signal can carry.
Commercial signal
Explicit willingness to pay, costly workarounds, replacement requests, and unmet alternatives can support commercial relevance. Absence of these signals is preserved as uncertainty.
Risk and durability
Vendor-fix risk, narrow applicability, existing solution maturity, and structural tailwinds influence whether a problem is likely to remain buildable.
The score is a ranking aid, not a metric invented from thin evidence.
A higher score means the observed evidence better satisfies BuildSift's documented prioritization rules. It does not mean a known number of buyers, a forecasted revenue amount, or a guaranteed business outcome.