Day 17: Sector batch — 25 orgs in 25 minutes

When a sector heats up, sweep it broad before going deep.

Yesterday

Yesterday you set the weekly rhythm. Today you build the high-throughput version of the same procedure for sector-heat moments.

Why this signal matters

When a sector is moving (a category is buzzing, a competitor just raised, an LP is asking), the speed move is to score 25 orgs in that sector at lightning pace and rank them. One signal, one minute per org.

The 5-minute exercise

1Pick a sector that's moving. List 25 orgs (Crunchbase + AngelList).
2Score signal 1 (commit velocity) on each, 60 seconds per org.
3Sort top 5. For those 5, run the full composite — 75 minutes total.
4Top 1-2 from the sweep get a meeting request the same week.

What you’re filtering for

A 25-org sweep with 5 orgs flagged for full composite. Top 1-2 get outreach. The exercise compresses 'broad scan + tight diligence' into one afternoon.

Edge case

If the sector is small (<25 orgs with public GitHub), score what exists and supplement with private-repo intelligence — that gap itself is positioning data on the sector.

Bonus

This is the procedure the live engine runs every Monday at 06:00 UTC across 4,200 orgs in 4 seconds. You're learning the manual version so you can defend any number the engine produces.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow: using the composite as the founder Q&A frame — turning a score into a question.

Curriculum: /challenge · Methodology: /methodology · Paper: ssrn.com/abstract=6606558