Opportunity Radar
Where the data suggests something worth studying
Analysis across seven inputs, producing candidates for study — not proposals for investment.
Inputs analysed
Output fields
- 1Potential Opportunity
- 2Strategic Rationale
- 3Evidence
- 4Dependencies
- 5Required Study
- 6Potential Project Family
Worked example
- Potential Opportunity
- Domestic packaging manufacture
- Strategic Rationale
- Processed food and agricultural exports require packaging that is currently imported, which adds cost and exposes producers to shipping delay.
- Evidence
- Import composition data showing packaging materials as a recurring category. Volume and specification breakdown not yet obtained.
- Dependencies
- Reliable electricityIndustrial landPolymer or paper feedstockTechnical workforce
- Required Study
- A market sizing and feedstock availability assessment, establishing whether domestic volume supports viable plant scale.
- Potential Project Family
- Industrial Parks Development · Agro-Industrial Transformation Zones
Reading the radar
What an entry is, and four things it is not
An entry on this radar is a question worth studying: a place where the evidence suggests an intervention might be justified and where nobody has yet done the work to find out. It carries a strategic rationale, its dependencies, and the study that would settle it. That is the whole of the claim.
Not a recommendation
Nothing here has been assessed for feasibility, cost or affordability. Detection is not appraisal, and the gap between the two is where most of the money and all of the risk sit.
Not a project
An entry has no record in the registry and no readiness level. It becomes a project only when somebody completes the study named against it and the result survives screening — which it frequently will not.
Not a claim of necessity
A radar entry never declares an intervention necessary. That judgement belongs to the authority holding the mandate, informed by a study, and no platform is entitled to pre-empt it by publishing a want as a need.
Not an investment opportunity
It cannot be taken to capital. Preparation has not started, so there is nothing for an investor to assess, and presenting an unstudied opportunity to the market is how a pipeline loses its credibility with the market.
The reason for stating this so plainly is that an opportunity radar is the easiest surface on a development platform to misuse. Everything it produces looks like a finding, arrives with a rationale attached, and reads as though somebody has already checked. Each entry is a question that has not been answered yet, and the value of the tool depends entirely on it continuing to say so.