Business Path · LD · REPORT_RESEARCH_PRODUCT
AI-code provenance benchmark / compliance data product
Opportunity: AI-code provenance attestation (CI/procurement gate) · Pays: CISO
The opportunity
no neutral benchmark of AI-code provenance posture across vendors
Target customer: security leaders, procurement · Why now: provenance tooling fragmented; no neutral benchmark
Business model
Commercial: data/benchmark product · Revenue: subscription · Pricing: $2k-10k/yr · Automation: FULLY_AUTOMATABLE
Minimum launch version
data/product — software is not required first.
Step-by-step: {"day_1": "buyer interviews", "days_2_3": "build MVP deliverable", "days_4_7": "land first pilot", "week_2": "first paid engagement", "weeks_3_4": "standardize", "month_2": "3+ customers", "month_3": "automate"}
Financial scenarios (illustrative)
Financial scenarios and full pathway economics are in the report. Public pages keep the pathway framing, not the numbers. Read the report — free during Open Access.
Risks / Substitutes / Falsifiers
Main risks: vendor coverage, timeliness
Substitutes: JFrog, Gartner-style analysis
Falsifiers: provenance becomes commodity feature
Moat / asset flywheel
AI-code provenance/posture corpus + benchmark — each assessment adds posture benchmark data