{
  "schema_version": "0.4",
  "name": "Quiet Stance Opportunity Index",
  "description": "Machine-readable index of research domains, opportunity fields, and public intelligence objects.",
  "updated": "2026-09-16",
  "status": "public research-domain index",
  "domains": [
    {
      "id": "ai-infrastructure",
      "name": "AI infrastructure",
      "status": "active",
      "transition": "AI deployment is increasing demand for physical compute infrastructure, electricity, cooling, connectivity, and capital.",
      "bottlenecks": [
        "usable power",
        "grid connection",
        "equipment availability",
        "delivery timing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "energy-grid",
      "name": "Energy & grid",
      "status": "active",
      "transition": "Electrification and large new loads are forcing faster coordination among generation, transmission, interconnection, flexibility, and infrastructure investment.",
      "bottlenecks": [
        "interconnection",
        "transmission",
        "substations",
        "flexibility"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "critical-minerals",
      "name": "Critical minerals",
      "status": "active",
      "transition": "Energy, AI, electrification and industrial policy are increasing competition for minerals and exposing processing and downstream manufacturing dependencies.",
      "bottlenecks": [
        "refining",
        "separation",
        "metallization",
        "magnet/component manufacturing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "water-industrial-systems",
      "name": "Water & industrial systems",
      "status": "watch",
      "transition": "Industrial and data-center expansion is making local water availability, treatment, reuse, and resilience part of project feasibility.",
      "bottlenecks": [
        "local availability",
        "treatment capacity",
        "reuse infrastructure",
        "permitting"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "manufacturing-automation",
      "name": "Manufacturing & automation",
      "status": "watch",
      "transition": "Factory automation is spreading while production systems face constrained machine, component, service, and integration capacity.",
      "bottlenecks": [
        "robot/component availability",
        "integration capacity",
        "downtime/service",
        "factory constraints"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "logistics-trade",
      "name": "Logistics & trade",
      "status": "watch",
      "transition": "Trade routes and industrial supply chains are adapting to geopolitical risk, route changes, capacity constraints, and inventory uncertainty.",
      "bottlenecks": [
        "route reliability",
        "port/corridor capacity",
        "inventory positioning",
        "trade documentation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "capital-financing",
      "name": "Capital & financing",
      "status": "watch",
      "transition": "Capital is moving toward infrastructure and industrial projects where milestones, collateral, timing, and execution uncertainty drive financing outcomes.",
      "bottlenecks": [
        "verification",
        "milestone risk",
        "collateral visibility",
        "project bankability"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "emerging-market-infrastructure",
      "name": "Emerging-market infrastructure",
      "status": "watch",
      "transition": "Developing economies are expanding energy, digital, industrial and AI infrastructure while facing capital, reliability, connectivity, and local-institution constraints.",
      "bottlenecks": [
        "bankable projects",
        "reliable power",
        "connectivity",
        "capital access"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "public_objects": {
    "entities": "https://quietstance.com/data/entities.json",
    "evidence": "https://quietstance.com/data/evidence.json",
    "changes": "https://quietstance.com/data/changes.json",
    "projects": "https://quietstance.com/projects/",
    "domains": "https://quietstance.com/data/domains.json"
  },
  "quality_rules": [
    "source claims",
    "dated state",
    "provenance",
    "uncertainty",
    "contradictions",
    "economic consequence",
    "identifiable decision owner"
  ],
  "domain_count": 8,
  "public_scope": "High-level research domains and public intelligence objects only."
}
